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Get unlimited access to our expert analysis with a sport-only Telegraph subscription - £40 for 12 months (less than £1 a week) Lee Westwood believes Rory McIlroy has “probably had a rethink” after his declaration last week that European Tour golfers have no right to complain about their PGA Tour counterparts being able to earn ranking points despite the rest of the world’s male circuits being in lockdown. McIlroy made his controversial comments at the RBC Heritage event in Hilton Head, where the world No 1 finished in a tie for 41st on Sunday, 11 shots off Webb Simpson’s winning total. After the likes of Tommy Fleetwood and Bernd Wiesberger criticised the decision to restart the rankings system when the US circuit resumed, McIlroy asked why they did not travel over to America, saying: “If you really care about your career, you should be here.” Westwood was another who elected to remain in Britain, but thinks McIlroy focused on the wrong category of players in his tirade. “Rory’s entitled to his opinion but what he fails to explain is that only a handful of European Tour players are eligible for those PGA Tour events,” Westwood told Worldwide Golf. “European players ranked from 50th upwards couldn’t get in - and that’s the issue. “You’ve all these Americans playing for world ranking points and they’re going to go past the Europeans in the rankings because the latter have no tournaments to compete in. The world rankings are very important with regards to getting into majors and World Golf Championships, and to me it doesn’t seem fair that the Europeans, South Africans and Australians who play on the European Tour lose out purely because of a global pandemic.
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