Henrik Stenson turned 50 on the fifth day of April and his inaugural seniors event cannot get any better than teeing-up in the April 16th Seniors PGA Championship in Florida.
Stenson was born in Gothenberg. He got introduced to golf at age 12. He capped his amateur career winning the 1996 Italian Amateur title.
Two years later he turned pro and then after three years in the play-for-pay ranks Stenson earned the first of what would be 22 pro career victories capped by a memorable final 18 holes when Stenson and Phil Mickelson duelled neck-and-neck for the 2016 Open Championship at Royal Troon, and Stenson emerging a three-shot champion.
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Stenson shot a final round 63 for 264, a record 20-under par to became the first Scandinavian man to win a major title.
The duo’s final-day battle, ending fourteen and eleven shots clear of third-place J. B. Holmes, was dubbed “High Noon at Troon” and compared in quality to the renowned “Duel in the Sun” of 1977.“
Stenson represented Europe in five Ryder Cups and being a member of three victorious sides – 2006, 2014 and 2018.
In March 2022, he delighted in an historic first-ever Swede appointed as the 2023 European Ryder Cup captain though a couple of months later in July, it all turned sour for Stenson in being removed from his position as European team leader, due to his imminent signing with LIV Golf.
Stenson would have been the first Swedish Ryder Cup captain and became the first apointed captain removed from his poisition before entering the match.
He’ll tee-up on April 16 joining compatriot Johan Edfors, Freddie Jacobsen, Michael Jonzon, Robert Karlsson and Mikael Lundberg in the $US 3m event being staged on The Concesssion course at Bradenton.
