Lee Westwood shakes hands with Rory McIlroy on the 17th following his 3 and 1 defeat. Picture by Fran Caffrey/www.golffile.ieRory McIlroy confessed that his massive desire to beat Lee Westwood ultimately cost him the WGC-Accenture Match Play and the chance to become Ireland’s first world No 1 last night.

“See you tomorrow.” Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood cross paths outside the media centre at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club near Tucson. What Graeme McDowell once described as a relationship of “jokes with jabs” will get deadly serious later today when Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood square off in the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson.