Willett Admits He Needs To Make Improvements

Danny Willett admits he needs to make improvements to his game after a "topsy-turvy" week at the BMW PGA Championship.

The Masters champion, the top seed at Wentworth, held a five-shot advantage at one stage during the second round on Friday but ended the week in third spot after rounds of 76 and 71 over the weekend.

Willett only finished two strokes adrift of eventual winner Chris Wood but believes there is lots he needs to do before he returns to action at next month's US Open.

"The game's not been there," Willett said. "It's a work in progress and there are glimpses of it being really good, and then there's obviously little sections that are very bad.

"Looking at the scores now, we could have made it really close today if we would have got going and put the foot down but we just had too many mistakes.

"A top-five is all right, but obviously you're working hard to try and win."

Resuming three strokes adrift of overnight leader Scott Hend, Willett bounced back from a double-bogey at the third by carding a chip-in eagle from off the next green as he reached the turn level-par.

Gains at the 12th and 16th were cancelled out by dropped shots at the 15th and 17th, only for the world No 9 to end his final round under par by getting up-and-down for birdie at the last.

"It has just been really up-and-down," Willett added. "There's a lot of good in there, but then the bad shots around here this week have been pretty bad.

"It's just getting them bad shots a little bit better and just working away and doing the same things, to try to narrow that gap and get some more feeling.

"We had a good couple rounds last week and then a couple of poor ones and it has been similar again this week really, where we just struggled to get anything going on the weekend."