After the DP World Tour announced further fines and suspensions against 26 players who competed in LIV Golf tournaments over the past ten months, Henrik Stenson has decided to leave Europe’s top men’s circuit for good.
Henrik Stenson, statements
“It’s sad that it has come to this.
I was left with no other choice, so I have decided to step down. I appreciate what the DP World Tour has done over the years, but they have chosen a different future than many players “, Stenson’s statements to Golf Digest.
So the story between Stenson and the DP World Tour ends in the worst possible way. With the Swede who, last July, was removed as captain of the Europe team at the Ryder Cup in Rome after accepting flattery from LIV Golf. And after Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Richard Bland, now Stenson has also decided to resign from the DP World Tour.
Henrik Stenson (Gothenburg, Sweden, 5 April 1976) is a Swedish golfer who has graduated to professional level. He has won once on the European Tour and five times on the PGA Tour, winning the WGC Match Play 2007, the Players Championship 2009, the Tour Championship 2013, the Campeonato Mundial de Dubai 2013 and 2014, and the Abierto Británico de 2016.
Asimismo, obtuvo los playoffs en el PGA Tour 2013, y el Camino a Dubái del European Tour 2013. In all majors tournaments, Stenson was the winner in the British Country 2016, second in 2013 and third in 2008 and 2010, third in the PGA Championship 2013 and 2014 and four in 2008, four in the United States National Park 2014 and nine in 2009.
He also played three editions of the Copa Ryder with the European selection, scoring six points in 11 matches. The suede has been new weeks in the third puesto on the world golf list, 29 weeks between the first five, 126 between the first ten and 248 between the first 20.
Stenson made his debut in 1999 on the European Challenge Tour, the satellite tour of Europe. He obtuvo dos segundos lugares y seis top 10 in six tournaments, for which he was placed 21º in the list of prizes. In 2000 he logged three triumphs and new top 10 in 13 tournaments, which is why he logged the first place in the final classification and the target to play the European Tour in 2001.
