Oh but it's not all bad news, because it is, after all, the Official World Golf Ranking where sense was long ago abandoned.
Needing a first or second-place finish to dethrone Tiger Woods as world number one, Westwood is outside the top 30 at halfway.
But if he misses his defence of the Portugal Masters next week, he will overtake Woods on the rankings - calculated over a two-year period - at the end of this month.