In-form Lee Westwood leads the Players Championship after bogey-free second round at Sawgrass

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Lee Westwood has been here before: leading The Players Championship after 36 holes. The difference is, the Englishman was 31 and 36 years old respectively on the two previous occasions. Now, he is 47 and continually shakes his head at the realisation. “I’m 48 next month,” he says. In 2005 and 2010, Westwood went on to finish in a tie for 22nd and fourth at the PGA Tour’s flagship event after holding the halfway advantage. After last week’s second at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, expect him to replicate the latter performance instead of the former. At this time of year, the Worksop man has become accustomed to being usually either at Cheltenham or working out his bets for Cheltenham. On this weekend, he is at the front leading the chase to the $2.7million (£1.94m) first prize. Without a bogey on his scorecard in his second-round 66, Westwood would hardly be the most ludicrous Sawgrass outsider to remain on his feet at the Stadium Course to prevail. He is ranked 31st in the world and in December was crowned European No 1 again after winning the order of merit title for the first time in 11 years.

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