Henrik Stenson

Henrik Stenson
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born	(1976-04-05) 5 April 1976 Gothenburg, Sweden
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	198 lb (90 kg; 14.1 st)
Nationality	Sweden
Residence	Orlando, Florida
Spouse	Emma Löfgren
Children	Lisa, Karl
Career
Turned professional	1998
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour (joined 2007) European Tour (joined 2001)
Professional wins	16
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	4
European Tour	8
Asian Tour	1
Sunshine Tour	1
Challenge Tour	3
Other	2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T17: 2007, 2008
U.S. Open	9th: 2009
The Open Championship	2nd: 2013
PGA Championship	3rd: 2013
Achievements and awards
Challenge Tour Rankings winner	2000
FedEx Cup Champion	2013
Race to Dubai Champion	2013
European Tour Golfer of the Year	2013

Henrik Stenson (born 5 April 1976) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays both on the PGA and European Tours. He has spent over 100 weeks ranked in the World top ten and his career high ranking of third is the best by any Swedish golfer. In July 2013, Stenson finished runner-up at the 2013 Open Championship. That year he also moved up to 3rd in the Official World Golf Ranking, and he won the U.S. PGA Tour's FedEx Cup and the European Tour's Race to Dubai, thus becoming the first player to win both, and to do so in the same season,^[1][2] a "historic double".^[3][4] Stenson described his feat as a "double-double" because in the process of winning these two seasonal points crowns, he also won the season finales of both tours.^[5]

Professional career

Stenson was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1999 and the following year topped the money rankings on the second tier golf tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour. He joined the main European Tour in 2001 and has won seven European Tour events. From 2005 to 2008 he finished each year in the top 10 of the European Order of Merit.

Stenson reached the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2006 and the top 10 in 2007.^[6] Later in February, Stenson then became the first Swede to win one of the World Golf Championships when beating Geoff Ogilvy 2&1 in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. This victory took Stenson to the top of the European Order of Merit and also to a high of 5th in the world rankings, which is also the highest a Swedish player has ever been ranked, surpassing Jesper Parnevik's previous record of reaching seventh place in May 2000.^[7] In all, he spent over 90 weeks in the top 10 of the rankings since 2007.^[8][9]

These two victories put Stenson in the lead of the 2007 European Tour Order of Merit, but he failed to add to his success over the rest of the season and finished in fourth place.

Stenson made his Ryder Cup debut in 2006, and after getting a half-point in the foursomes against Stewart Cink and David Toms on the Friday, he had the honour of holing the winning putt and ensuring Europe won the Ryder Cup for a third consecutive time when beating Vaughn Taylor 4 & 3 in the Sunday singles. He played again in 2008 at Valhalla, tallying a win, a loss and a draw in the foursomes. However he was not as fortunate as two years before, losing the singles on Sunday 3 & 2 to an inspired Kenny Perry.

In March 2009 Stenson created a storm in the media after stripping to his underwear and golf glove in order to play a recovery shot from a muddy water hazard at the first round of the WGC-CA Championship.^[10]

On 10 May 2009, Stenson won The Players Championship with a dominating final round score of 66 to finish four ahead of Ian Poulter. The win was his first American stroke play victory. This win again brought him to fifth in the Official World Golf Ranking.^[11] The following week he moved up to fourth without playing. Stenson would falter after reaching a career OWGR high, falling to 230th at the beginning of 2012.

On 5 April 2012, Stenson led during the first round of the Masters Tournament with two eagles on the front nine to lead at 6-under-par until the 18th hole. He scored a quadruple-bogey on the par-4 18th hole, tying the Masters' record for the highest score ever on that hole.^[12]

In the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield, Stenson finished as the runner-up, three strokes behind Phil Mickelson, with a total of 284 (E) for the tournament. He shot a final round of 70 and held the lead for brief moments during the round, but was beaten by Mickelson's four birdie finish. This was Stenson's best performance in a major championship, bettering his two previous T3 finishes at the same championship. Stenson moved back inside the world's top 20 with this result. Stenson finished runner-up again the following month at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational behind Tiger Woods. He moved up to 11th in the world rankings on the back of this result.

In the year's next major championship, the 2013 PGA Championship, Stenson contended again on Sunday, teeing off in the penultimate group two strokes behind the leader Jim Furyk. Despite an eagle on the par-5 fourth hole, that moved him to within one stroke of the leaders, Stenson was never quite able to build any momentum in an even-par round that included four bogeys. He finished alone in third place, three strokes behind the champion Jason Dufner. Stenson moved up one place in the world rankings to move back inside the world's top ten.

Stenson's good form continued into the 2013 FedEx Cup Playoffs, when he won the Deutsche Bank Championship by two strokes over runner-up, Steve Stricker. It was the Swede's first PGA Tour victory in over three years. He tied the tournament record of −22 en route to his third career PGA Tour win.^[13] The win vaulted him into first place in the FedEx Cup standings just ahead of Tiger Woods.

On September 22, 2013, Stenson won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup.^[14] He also tied his career best OWGR ranking of 4th.

He then moved up to a career best 3rd in the OWGR ranking on 3 November 2013.^[15]

On November 17, 2013, he won the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, thereby also winning the Race to Dubai which he was already leading. Having already won the FedEx Cup Series in September, he thus became the first player to win the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour and the European Tour's Race to Dubai, and to do so in the same season,^[1][2] a 'historic double'.^[3][4] Stenson described his feat as a 'double-double' because in the process of winning these two seasonal points crowns, he also won the season finales of both tours (the Tour Championship and the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai).^[5] He was later named European Tour Golfer of the Year.^[16]

Personal life

Stenson married fellow Swede Emma Löfgren in Dubai ten years after meeting her at the University of South Carolina.^[17][18] In July 2007, his wife gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Lisa.^[19] In 2010, the couple had their second child, a son named Karl.

Professional wins (16)

European Tour wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s) up
1	13 May 2001	Benson & Hedges International Open	−12 (67-68-71-70=275)	3 strokes	Ángel Cabrera, Paul McGinley
2	26 Sep 2004	The Heritage	−19 (69-67-67-66=269)	4 strokes	Carlos Rodiles
3	29 Jan 2006	Commercialbank Qatar Masters1	−15 (66-68-71-68=273)	3 strokes	Paul Broadhurst
4	3 Sep 2006	BMW International Open	−15 (71-68-66-68=273)	Playoff	Retief Goosen, Pádraig Harrington
5	4 Feb 2007	Dubai Desert Classic	−19 (68-64-69-68=269)	1 stroke	Ernie Els
6	25 Feb 2007	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship	2&1		Geoff Ogilvy
7	18 Nov 2012	South African Open Championship2	−17 (66-65-69-71=271)	3 strokes	George Coetzee
8	17 Nov 2013	DP World Tour Championship, Dubai	−25 (68-64-67-64=263)	6 strokes	Ian Poulter

¹ Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour
² Co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour

European Tour playoff record (1–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2005	Scandinavian Masters	Mark Hensby	Lost to par on second extra hole
2	2006	BMW Asian Open	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
3	2006	BMW International Open	Retief Goosen, Pádraig Harrington	Won with eagle on first extra hole

PGA Tour wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	25 Feb 2007	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship	2&1		Geoff Ogilvy
2	10 May 2009	The Players Championship	−12 (68-69-73-66=276)	4 strokes	Ian Poulter
3	2 Sep 2013	Deutsche Bank Championship	−22 (67-63-66-66=262)	2 strokes	Steve Stricker
4	22 Sep 2013	Tour Championship	−13 (64-66-69-68=267)	3 strokes	Jordan Spieth, Steve Stricker

Challenge Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	25 Jun 2000	DEXIA-BIL Luxembourg Open	−18 (63-68-69-70=270)	Playoff	Nicolas Colsaerts (am), Nils Roerbaek-Petersen
2	17 Sep 2000	Gula Sidorna Grand Prix	−7 (66-69-71-71=277)	3 strokes	Robert-Jan Derksen, Kenneth Ferrie
3	5 Nov 2000	Challenge Tour Grand Final	−18 (69-67-65-69=270)	5 strokes	Mikael Lundberg, Andrew Raitt, Michele Reale

Other wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	30 Nov 2008	Omega Mission Hills World Cup (with Robert Karlsson)	−27 (65-67-66-63=261)	3 strokes	Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Pablo Larrazábal
2	7 Dec 2008	Nedbank Golf Challenge	−21 (63-71-65-68=267)	9 strokes	Kenny Perry

Results in major championships

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

• Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2008 Open Championship – 2009 PGA)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (twice, current)

World Golf Championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
2007	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship	n/a	2 & 1		Geoff Ogilvy

Results timeline

DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Sweden): 1998
• St Andrews Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 1998 (winners)

Professional

• Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2005, 2009
• World Cup (representing Sweden): 2005, 2006, 2008 (winners), 2009
• Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2006 (winners), 2007 (winners), 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2012
• Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2006 (winners), 2008

See also

• List of golfers with most European Tour wins

References

External links

• Official website
• Henrik Stenson at the European Tour official site
• Henrik Stenson at the PGA Tour official site
• Henrik Stenson at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

v t e European Ryder Cup team – 2006 Paul Casey Darren Clarke Luke Donald Sergio García Pádraig Harrington David Howell Robert Karlsson Paul McGinley Colin Montgomerie José María Olazábal Henrik Stenson Lee Westwood Ian Woosnam (non-playing captain) Won: 18.5 – 9.5

v t e European Ryder Cup team – 2008 Paul Casey Sergio García Søren Hansen Pádraig Harrington Miguel Ángel Jiménez Robert Karlsson Graeme McDowell Ian Poulter Justin Rose Henrik Stenson Lee Westwood Oliver Wilson Nick Faldo (non-playing captain) Lost: 11.5 – 16.5