Henrik Stenson | ||||||||||||
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Personal information | ||||||||||||
Full name | Henrik Olof Stenson | |||||||||||
Nickname | The Iceman | |||||||||||
Born | Gothenburg, Sweden | 5 April 1976|||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 14 st) | |||||||||||
Sporting nationality | Sweden | |||||||||||
Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||
Spouse |
Emma Löfgren (m. 2007) | |||||||||||
Children | 3 | |||||||||||
Career | ||||||||||||
Turned professional | 1998 | |||||||||||
Current tour(s) | LIV Golf | |||||||||||
Former tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Challenge Tour | |||||||||||
Professional wins | 22 | |||||||||||
Highest ranking | 2 (25 May 2014)[1] | |||||||||||
Number of wins by tour | ||||||||||||
PGA Tour | 6 | |||||||||||
European Tour | 11 | |||||||||||
Asian Tour | 1 | |||||||||||
Sunshine Tour | 2 | |||||||||||
Challenge Tour | 3 | |||||||||||
LIV Golf | 1 | |||||||||||
Other | 2 | |||||||||||
Best results in major championships (wins: 1) | ||||||||||||
Masters Tournament | T5: 2018 | |||||||||||
PGA Championship | 3rd/T3: 2013, 2014 | |||||||||||
U.S. Open | T4: 2014 | |||||||||||
The Open Championship | Won: 2016 | |||||||||||
Achievements and awards | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Henrik Olof Stenson[2] (pronounced [ˈhɛ̌nːrɪk ˈstěːnsɔn]; born 5 April 1976) is a Swedish professional golfer.
He is the first male Swedish and Nordic major championship winner, having won the 2016 Open Championship with a major championship record score. His list of wins also includes some of the other most prestigious tournaments around the world; The Players Championship, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, the World Cup, the Tour Championship, the DP World Tour Championship Dubai, the South African Open and the Nedbank Golf Challenge. A two-time European Tour Golfer of the Year, he has spent over 300 weeks ranked in the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking[3] with a career high ranking of second.
In 2013, Stenson won the U.S. PGA Tour FedEx Cup rankings as well as the European Tour Race to Dubai rankings by winning the season finales of both tours.[4][5][6][7][8]
Stenson was named the 2023 European Ryder Cup captain, but his captaincy was later terminated.[9]
(Stenson) becomes the first player to win the FedEx Cup Series on the US PGA Tour and The Race to Dubai and in the same season.
Although Stenson has not quite replicated the same feat as Donald and McIlroy, who achieved respective money list double acts in 2011 and 2012, Stenson is still the first golfer to win both play-off finales on the two tours. On the European Tour, the Race to Dubai is the money list, but in America the money list and season-ending FedExCup are separate, with Tiger Woods winning the PGA Tour money list this year. Donald said: "He has not won the money list in the US but he did win the Race to Dubai and the FedExCup, which neither Rory or myself did. Obviously that's very, very impressive. ..."
...after securing an historic double ... Stenson became the first man to win The European Tour's Race to Dubai and FedEx Cup on the US PGA Tour in the same year.
Henrik Stenson hailed a "dream season" as he claimed a historic double
A month after winning the FedEx Cup points title in Atlanta, Stenson breezed to the European Tour's Race to Dubai points title, too, pocketing a combined US$11 million in bonus money and becoming the first member of both circuits to win the seasonal points crowns in the same year. He won the season finales on both tours in the process. "The double-double," Stenson said. "That's going to take some beating in the future."