The Telegraph
Fiancee, caddie and ‘psychologist’: Helen Storey, the girl helping Lee Westwood walk ancient past
The Gamers Championship came to a conclusion on Sunday evening with Lee Westwood falling excellent short in his show to turn out to be no longer finest the first person from England to take the match, but additionally the oldest UK player ever to prevail on the PGA Tour. In the close it became as soon as Justin Thomas who triumphed, adding The Gamers to the USPGA he won in 2017. However at 47 years passe, runner-up Westwood proved he can gentle downside with the finest, having been in rivalry the final two weekends. One particular person that has been with him during has been Helen Storey, his fiancee and caddie. James Corrigan takes a glance at her scheme. Who is Helen Storey? Lee Westwood says having his fiancee Helen Storey as his caddie “is cherish having a psychologist available with me”. The pair met in 2015 thru Graham Wylie, the owner of the Halt Home Golf Club in Heddon-on-the-Wall to whom Westwood is contracted. Wylie is married to Helen’s sister, Andrea. Every Westwood and Storey are divorced fogeys, with Westwood having a son, Sam, and a daughter, Poppy and Storey having a daughter, Edie. The couple are residing in Newcastle. What’s her sporting background? Storey, 43, is a fitness consultant and her cherish of understanding has clearly helped Westwood. At their first event as player and caddie, the 2017 Abu Dhabi Championship, Westwood shot a gap 68. As soon as he had carried out with the media, Storey acknowledged to Westwood: “Perfect, let’s now trail to the gym.” Westwood later published: “That terrified me. In the initiating I thought she acknowledged, ‘Perfect, let’s now trail for a gin’. That’s what I on the whole reach.” Storey is finest a novice golfer. Her passion is horse-riding. Westwood has owned several racehorses and they’ve on the whole been viewed attending mountainous conferences such because the Cheltenham Festival.
