European golf will be confident of victory at the WGC-CA Championship beginning at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Florida on Thursday.

Almost a third of the 68-man field are European, with six in the world top-10.

Ian Poulter, who won the WGC Match Play last month, could move above Lee Westwood into fourth this week.

World number one Tiger Woods is again absent and teenage sensation Ryo Ishikawa is not playing either because of his school graduation ceremony.

Poulter would become Europe’s leading player for the first time if he could pass Westwood in the rankings and revealed he had a variety of messages from some of golf’s leading names after his impressive Match Play success in the first of this year’s prestigious world championship events. [Read More]