If Henrik Stenson wasn’t playing golf and representing Europe next week they he reckons he’d probably be selling ‘Henrik’s High Test Porridge Bears’.

The European Team member with the most bizarre wit is back into the Ryder Cup and now ready to have his USA Team rivals choke on his ‘munchable’ bears.

It’s been six years since the Swede has waited to avenge defeat in his last Ryder Cup appearance.

After having humbled American Vaughan Taylor 4 & 3 to help Europe to victory at the K. Club in 2006 Stenson was then on the receiving end of 3 & 2 mauling courtesy of Kenny Penny who gave the Americans victory in 2008 at Valhalla.

Stenson stormed his way back into the 2014 European Ryder Cup team on the back of winning two of the four closing 2013 FedEx Cup play-off events and then heading to Dubai to play the ‘European Tour Shot of the Year’ in capturing the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.

Henrik Stenson wraps his arms around good friends and past European Tour stars Pierre Fulke (left) and Pierre Ulrik Johansson at their meeting during the 2014 Open Championship. (Photo – www.golfbytourmiss.com)

It ensured Stenson ended the year as both PGA Tour and European Tour No. 1.

So after a period in 2001 where he admitted ‘I had no idea where the ball was going off the tee’ Stenson will tee-up at Gleneagles as one of the cornerstones of Paul McGinley’s team.

“Six years is a long time and this will be my third Ryder Cup so I’m very relaxed as compared to 2006 when I was a rookie,” he said.

“When you’re playing a Ryder Cup as a rookie, you don’t really know what to expect.  I guess I was more curious on how everything was going that week and so on.

“But then that experience of playing in 2006 and then at Valhalla in 2008, I’m now prepared for Gleneagles.

“So I am more than acclimatised to everything about the Ryder Cup and now just looking forward to getting to Gleneagles and playing well, and helping keep the Ryder Cup in Europe.”

Frenchman Thomas Levet clowning around with Henrik Stenson during a Jebel Ali Challenge. (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)

While Stenson’s firepower is going to be a key to McGinley his unique wit that’s sure settle nerves in the Gleneagles team room.

And as an example Henson admitted in a Golf Digest article if he was not a golfer he would be selling ‘something like porridge’.

“I would probably be selling something I could sell for more than I paid for it, and something they felt they had to have,” he said.

“I’ve got it!   How about something to do with porridge that tasted great and had all kinds of good nutrients to impress the people who look at the labels.

“I’d market it as ‘Henrik High Test Porridge Bears’, and package them so you could sell munchable versions you carry in your golf bag.”

And in another bizarre revelation there was the practical jokes Stenson and his friends used to play as a kid.

“As kids we’d take what comes out of the rear end of a dog and put it in a paper bag,” he said.

“We would put the bag on a neighbour’s porch, light the bag, ring the doorbell and run away.  They would rush out, often in their house slippers, and stomp out the fire. Hillarious.”

Therein lies some of the differences between Europe and the Americans.

Of course, Tom Watson has ‘Bubba’ and then there was ‘Boo’ before him but McGinley’s got Stenson.