The Open 2013: Lee Westwood teams up with Australian Ian Baker-Finch to help him 'putt like a kid again' Westwood has done without a putting coach in the past few years, but now feels that Baker-Finch is the coach he needs "to locate the final piece in the jigsaw." The Australian won at Birkdale in 1991, before embarking on an infamous slump which eventually forced him all but to retire after a 92 in the 1997 Open at Troon. Baker-Finch, however, has always retained his touch on the green, an enduring ability Westwood noticed when moving to a house close to the 53-year-old in Palm Beach Gardens "He's a neighbour of mine and when we've played together I could see why he was known as a wizard on the greens," Westwood said on Monday. I had a session with Ian last week and it was a bit of a light bulb moment. It was more about feel than technique, gripping it more lightly and loosening everything up. It's a mental thing. I need to go out there feeling comfortable and he's trying to get across a way of softening everything so I hit putts like a 10-year-old. We all wish we could putt like we did as kids and I'm going back to the clown's mouth and windmill. Westwood was speaking at the Have A Heart charity day at Close House, the golf course and hotel to which he is affiliated in Newcastle. He returned to Britain late last week and has already taken the chance to visit Muirfield, the venue for The Open next week. The 40-year-old has decided to go into the year's third major after a three-week break and feels the work with Baker-Finch will see him step up a level. "My chipping and scrambling have improved out of sight since I moved to Florida [in December] and when I start holing a few more putts I'm going to be difficult to beat," Westwood said. He is down in 151st in the "strokes gained in putting charts" on the PGA Tour this season. Meanwhile, Westwood's countryman and friend Chris Woods is celebrating after learning that he has sneaked into the Open field via the world rankings. The Bristolian, who has twice finished in the top four at the Open, was joined later on Monday by Stephen Gallacher. The Scot was first reserve but gets in courtesy of John Daly's withdrawal with an elbow injury.