Lee Westwood has acknowledged that he would relish the opportunity to be European Ryder Cup captain in the future.
Englishman looking forward to playing under Montgomerie
Lee Westwood is already looking forward to working under his seventh different Ryder Cup captain and has acknowledged that it is a role he would love to fill himself in the future.
World number three Westwood is a certainty to be in Colin Montgomerie's European side as they bid to wrest the trophy back from America at Celtic Manor in October.
The Englishman admits he has learnt a lot from the men he has already served under and believes his experience can only aid his own captaincy ambitions.
"I'd love to be the captain one day," he commented. "It's a massive honour and very few people get to do it.
"I've played under lots of different captains, I think Monty will be the seventh.
Passionate
"I've got a lot of experience playing in the Ryder Cup and a lot of experience of different captains and the way they've all done it and I should be able to look back and know what to do and what not to do.
"Hopefully one day I'll get the chance to do that, but it's quite a long way down the road. It's not really something I've thought too much about."
Of Montgomerie's likely leadership style, he added: "He has always worn his heart on his sleeve and he's been very passionate about the Ryder Cup and he's obviously played many of them, so he's got a wealth of experience.
"He's always stirring the troops up and getting you going so I think he'll make a great captain."
Westwood also believes the Scot has put together the perfect combination of assistant coaches having recently announced a backroom team of Darren Clarke to Paul McGinley and Thomas Bjorn.
"I think all the assistant captains bring something," he continued. "Darren has always been a big personality in the team, Thomas Bjorn has experience of being vice-captain to Bernhard Langer and Paul McGinley has won the Ryder Cup too."
Eyes on number one spot
On an individual level, Westwood will soon have the chance to establish himself as the world number one.
At number three in the rankings currently, the 37-year-old will leapfrog both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson if he wins next week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron.
"It (becoming world number one) would be amazing," he said. "It's not really something I set out for at the start of the year but now it's in reach it is something you focus on."
