Westwood could lose top spot to Tiger Woods, whom he dethroned at the end of October, if he fails to finish in the top two at the Gary Player Country Club and the American wins the Chevron World Challenge in California, where he led by four shots after the second round.
Then, competing at London's Hyde Park triathlon later that summer, he collapsed at the end of the race - an incident he still cannot fully explain.
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"You all dress up pretty nice, " he quipped at the end of a long day, when he made a white-tie appearance at the inaugural balls.
In a great irony of which he may someday become aware, Gore proved at the end of his presidential campaign what he had spent most of that campaign trying to disprove.
Reflecting on the past is something Lord Rodgers has been doing quite a bit of late - being as he says "at the end of his career" - he published his memoirs, Fourth Among Equals, this summer.
B's competitors, he announced at the end of last month that he would be stepping down in March 1998.
Was he smiling, was he sucking at the end of a cigarette, did he wave?
When he departs at the end of this 2013 season, he doesn't need to unlace his spikes.
Young singled out number eight Xavier Rush and admitted it will be almost impossible to replace the experienced New Zealander when he leaves for Ulster at the end of the season after he carried the Welsh region into the final at rain-soaked Adams Park.
In a reversal of the usual trajectory, he looked noticeably slimmer than he had at the end of his playing days, when his head and torso had appeared vaguely salt-swollen, but he retained that particular combination of detached cool and deep-seated insecurity which had made him a compelling antihero on the diamond for much of the past two decades.
He admitted at the end of the day's play that he purposefully set out to attack Makhaya Ntini, seeking to put the pressure firmly back on Graeme Smith's team.
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Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second.
This time, it is hoped, the actor will not fluff his lines or forget the names of certain minor players, as he did at the end of Act One.
He announced on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the season, saying he was "absolutely devastated" by the scandal that has rocked the sprawling campus at State College in central Pennsylvania.
Out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw a stooped figure at the end of the street, but when he turned his head he saw only shrubs in the fog.
Agar's current contract was due to run out at the end of the season but he will now stay in charge at the KC Stadium at least until the end of 2012.
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"The mental state he was in at the end of his match with Ebdon, he needs to take some time off, " he said.
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He reminded me that at the end of the first overtime he stole the ball from Monroe.
Rivera said he would have retired at the end of last season if he had not gotten hurt.
He takes on a new assistant, in the shape of Troy (Colin Hanks) a pleasant fellow, who keeps telling us (in a superfluous voice-over) how life-changing the experience has been, although he seems no less dull at the end of it than he did at the start.
The match at Old Trafford will be the last home game for United manager Sir Alex Ferguson before he retires at the end of the season after 26 years.
And he made clear at the end of his speech yesterday that the oath he took -- both yesterday and the day before -- is very similar to the oath that members of Congress take, very similar to the oath that men and women in our armed forces take, and similar to the pledge that we make to our flag, every American makes.
He now has a new limited edition camera in the pipeline which he hopes to release at the end of the summer, although he remains tight-lipped as to what exactly that may be.
The hearing also heard he had a string of previous convictions and that at the end of April he struggled to speak to a nurse because he was sobbing so hard.
His most famous quotes where he speaks of victory occur at the end of his speech.
Mr Adams said he had one kidney removed, but at the end of last year he was diagnosed with cancer and told he had six weeks to live.
When he takes up his new role at the end of next month, he will take responsibility for the commercial, marketing and circulation departments, as well as the editorial management of the Independent and the Independent on Sunday.
One snag is that Mr Monti has said repeatedly that he will step down at the end of this parliament's term (he may have his eye on the Italian presidency or a senior European job).
Instead of taking off a month or more, as he usually does at the end of the year, McIlroy began working on his new sticks with Nike's equipment gurus in Fort Worth, Texas.
Fitzgerald charged that Libby told FBI agents and the grand jury that "he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another" about Plame.
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