In the first week of May, Danny Willett will once again host the Betfred British Masters at The Belfry. To the author at least, it seems like only yesterday that a bouncy, fresh-faced 19-year-old Willett was playing in the Walker Cup at Royal County Down alongside Rory McIlroy, among others, against a team including Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel and Webb Simpson. But that was 15 years ago, and Willett is now an older, not-quite-yet elder statesman of European golf – a Major Champion, a multiple winner and an ambassador for the sport and charity (see box over the page).
Host to the British Masters is an impressive line on a CV most professional golfers would be very envious of. It’s six years since Willett added bullet point 1 on that CV. Taking full advantage of Jordan Spieth’s meltdown, he stormed home to
