World No 3 Lee Westwood is fit and ready to compete for the Qatar Masters this week after a shoulder problem troubled him in the Abu Dhabi Championship.
"I had a few issues to negotiate last week," he said.
"We've been working a lot on my fitness recently and I hadn't played a lot going into Abu Dhabi," Westwood continued
"I had a bit of a shoulder injury the first couple of days there which is now gone. It just needed to loosen up a little bit."
The Qatar Masters is the second event on the European Tour's ‘Desert Swing’, sandwiched between Abu Dhabi and next week's Dubai Desert Classic.
"Apparently the rough is not as long as it was last year but the weather man says it's going to be fairly windy," the Englishman added.
"When it's like that around here it is a really tough test. If the wind really pumps this week it could quite easily be an eight or nine-under-par winning score."
Westwood partners defending champion Thomas Bjorn and world number 10 Jason Day of Australia in the first two rounds.
"I was asked at the end of last week who will have a big year and the only one I picked out was Jason Day," said the world No 3.
"I think he's a talented player. He gets overlooked quite a bit and obviously by saying that I put the curse on him and he missed the cut in Abu Dhabi," joked Westwood.
