Henrik Stenson

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Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson
Personnel
Nation: SwedenSweden Sweden
Career data
Professional since: 1998
Current tour: European Tour , PGA Tour
Tournament wins: 21st
Major wins : 1 (2016)
Awards: Harry Vardon Trophy (2013),
winner of the Race to Dubai (2013, 2016),
European Tour Golfer of the Year (2013)

Henrik Stenson (born April 5, 1976 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the North American PGA Tour .

Career

After a successful amateur career - finally playing for his country in the Eisenhower Trophy in Chile in 1998 - Stenson started his career at the end of 1998 and won the Challenge Tour money list in the next 1999/2000 season . As a result, he came to the European Tour in 2001 and has so far won six tournaments there and several top placements at top events. In 2005 Stenson finished eighth on the European Tour Order of Merit (money list), in 2006 he improved to sixth, in 2007 to fourth, and was among the top 20 in the golf world rankings . After winning the Players Championship in May 2009, Stenson achieved what is now his best position in the world rankings with rank 5.

In 2005 he was called up for the first time in the European team at the Seve Trophy and was team best. In 2006 he won the Royal Trophy in Team Europe against the best golfers in Asia and was also part of Europe's winning team in the Ryder Cup . In November 2008 he won the World Cup for Sweden with Robert Karlsson .

After these successes, Henrik Stenson went through a deep sporting crisis, during which he temporarily slipped out of the top 200 in the world rankings. It was not until 2012 that he reported back with his next tournament victory (European Tour - the South African Open ).

A new career highlight came in 2013 when, in addition to some top placements (including second at the British Open ), he won two of the highly endowed playoff tournaments of the FedEx Cup and at the same time secured the overall victory with US $ 10 million in prize money . He then also won the Race to Dubai of the European Tour and was the first golfer in history to win these two most important annual ratings in the same season. In the world rankings, Stenson improved to third place.

The greatest success of his career was when he won The Open Championship in 2016. He is the first male golfer from Sweden to win a major and set a new record for the Open with a total of 264 strokes. In addition, Stenson set the record for individual rounds in majors with his final round of 63 strokes.

At the end of the 2016 season, he again won the Race to Dubai on the European Tour.

The game

Stenson is left-handed but plays golf right-handed.

What is striking about his game is the fact that he rarely uses his driver; He performs most long cuts (without using a tee) with a blade 3, with which he agrees on acceptable distances with high accuracy. In the 2013 season he led the PGA Tour in the statistics of hit fairways with 72.65%, while with an average teeing distance of 290.9 yards (266 meters) he was still 66th (out of 180). This style of play also helped him to rank 1 in the "Greens in Regulation" statistics (71.96%).

Two peculiarities of Stenson's swing are a slightly jerky shift of weight onto the right leg before the start of the backswing and a shortened forward swing in which the golf club usually stays in front of Stenson's chest and does not swing behind the neck or head as with the majority of modern professional golfers.

PGA Tour victories

Major championships are in bold !

European Tour victories

Major championships are in bold !

Results in major championships

competition 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT T17 T17 T38 CUT CUT T40 T18 T14 T19 T24 CUT T5 T36
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP T47 T14 CUT T4 T6 CUT DNP DNP 3 T3 T25 T7 T13 CUT T48
US Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T26 CUT CUT 9 T29 T23 DNP T21 T4 T27 WD CUT T6 T9
The Open Championship CUT DNP DNP DNP T34 T48 CUT T3 T13 T3 68 DNP 2 T39 T40 1 T11 T35 T20

DNP = did not take part
CUT = cut not made
WD = withdrawn
"T" split placement
Green background for victory
Yellow background for top 10

Challenge Tour victories

  • 2000 DEXIA-BIL Luxembourg Open,
  • 2000 Gula Sidorna Grand Prix,
  • 2000 2nd Cuba Challenge Tour Grand Final

Other tournament victories

  • 2008 Nedbank Golf Challenge
  • 2019 Hero World Challenge

Participation in team competitions

  • Seve Trophy (for continental Europe): 2005, 2009
  • World Cup (for Sweden): 2005, 2008 (winner), 2009
  • Royal Trophy (for Europe): 2006 (winner), 2007 (winner), 2010 (winner), 2011 (winner)
  • Ryder Cup (for Europe): 2006 (winner), 2008 , 2014 (winner), 2016 , 2018 (winner)
  • EurAsia Cup (for Europe): 2018 (winner)

See also

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Commons : Henrik Stenson  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Stenson, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish golfer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg