‘I performed like a captain’ – Henrik Stenson wins LIV Golf Bedminster, immediately after remaining stripped of Ryder Cup captaincy

A minimal about a week on from remaining stripped of the Ryder Cup captaincy, Henrik Stenson hogged the headlines once all over again immediately after taking victory in the third LIV Golf celebration in Bedminster.

The Swede’s shift to LIV caused huge controversy, after he explained in March when having the Ryder Cup captaincy that he experienced no intention of leaping ship.

His occupation experienced been on the slide for some time, his the latest kind weak, but he sparked to everyday living in Bedminster and swelled his lender stability to the tune of about $4 million – on leading of the large signing reward.

“I guess we can agree I played like a captain,” Stenson stated. “It has been a superior initial week.

“It has been a fast paced 10 days and I am particularly happy to focus the way I did.

“It was a bit wobbly coming house, not finishing the offer in a few of years, and a tiny extra strain so it was great.”

Stenson commenced the last round with a a few-stroke guide. That gain was prolonged to 5 immediately after his opening hole. A bogey from Dustin Johnson coupled with the Swede rolling in a birdie from 15 feet gave him loads of breathing space.

Talor Gooch briefly lower the hole to 4, but a outstanding iron strategy – Stenson’s energy at his peak – on his fifth gap set up a birdie to increase the edge to five pictures.

Closing Leaderboard

• 1. Henrik Stenson, 11-less than
• T2. Dustin Johnson, 9-below
• T2. Matthew Wolff, 9-beneath
• 4. Carlos Ortiz, eight-under
• 5. Patrick Reed, 7-under
• T6. Paul Casey, 4-less than
• T6. Talor Gooch, 4-below
• T6. Sergio Garcia, 4-beneath
• T6. Lee Westwood, four-under
• T6. Turk Pettit, four-below

The initially minute of alarm for Stenson came on the seventh when he tugged his tee shot to the still left, but he got up and down for a par to keep a four-stroke guide.

Matthew Wolff chipped in for a birdie to reduce the gap to Stenson to two strokes, but a excellent birdie on 14 – set up by a superb tee shot on the lengthy par a few – moved him 3 obvious.

Stenson remarkably dropped a shot on the par 5 15th, and was in risk of a different bogey on 17 when obtaining the sand with his tactic. He splashed out to 12 feet and rolled in a fantastic putt, and celebrated it with a pump of the fist.

He had a two-shot cushion stood on the remaining tee, and played it in textbook fashion to close out the gain in the 3rd LIV Golfing occasion – his to start with victory because the Wyndham Championship in 2017.

The team event went to Johnson’s 4 Aces, who romped to a 8-shot acquire about Majesticks.