Henrik Stenson is one of those who also decided to be part of the LIV Golf project. What distinguishes him from others is his honesty, and Stenson admitted that the main motive behind his decision was money! “I’ve been a golf professional since very late 1998 and purse sizes, prize money on offer, financial part’s always been a part of where we made up our schedules and where we are going to play,” Sweden’s Stenson said.
“It’s been a part of it, absolutely. It was no different in this case.”
Ryder Cup captaincy
He had to give up the Ryder Cup captaincy because of his decision to be part of LIV Golf, and reporters asked him if he considered it a good decision; “I don’t feel like I’ve given it up.
I made every arrangement possible here to be able to fulfil my captain’s duties, and I’ve had great help here from LIV to be able to do that,” Stenson said. “And still the decision was made that I was to be removed.
I’m obviously disappointed over the situation but it is what it is and we move on from there now. “We had discussions and I informed them of the decision to go and play in LIV tournaments. They had a short period of time where they were kind of discussing or debating if what was going to happen.
I was informed of their decision shortly after.” Stenson hopes that the right solution will be found for the problems prevailing in the world of golf at the moment. I obviously feel like it’s a shame that we ended up in this situation.
I just hope that we can get a resolution as soon as possible here for all tours and everyone involved, and we can all kind of co-exist together,” Stenson added. “All the players love The Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, it’s just a shame we ended up in this situation.”
