PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida — Lee Westwood made a big move, uprooting his wife and two children from England to relocate in south Florida. The easy part was sitting down with the family to discuss it.

Westwood said the conversation went something like this.

“Do you want to go and live by the sea and the sun by a beach?” he said Wednesday. “It was a pretty quick take up, yeah.”

Westwood now has what amounts to a home game this week at the Honda Classic, even though he had not set foot on PGA National since he closed with a 63 and finished fourth last year.

Westwood is not far away from his 40th birthday, and while he feels like he is more fit than he was 10 years ago, it's becoming a burden to travel over oceans to play tournaments.

“I expect to feel better this year because of less travel and going through time zones,” Westwood said. “I found that the older you get, the harder it is to sort of get your head around that. It becomes frustrating to play a couple of weeks and then have to fly back to England and go through the time zones, and then come back and do it all over again. It just wears you down after a while. That was one of the main reasons for moving.”