Henrik Stenson won’t be assured a spot in sure DP World Tour tournaments as he was pressured to pay over £1million in fines after becoming a member of LIV Golf
Henrik Stenson faces contemporary points on the DP World Tour regardless of paying a fantastic to return. (Picture: Getty)
Ryder Cup star Henrik Stenson won’t be assured a spot in sure DP World Tour tournaments. The Telegraph studies that an unpublicised rule means the 49-year-old can have contemporary hurdles to qualify for the distinguished tournaments such because the BMW PGA Championship, Dubai Desert Traditional, and the Scottish Open.
This comes because of important downgrading in qualification classification. Beforehand, {golfing} legends like Stenson would have been exempt from the Rolex Sequence occasions resulting from their standing within the legends class, whereas any participant within the prime 4 of the Tour’s profession cash checklist who met different standards would safe a place in Class 5. Nonetheless, they now discover themselves considerably decrease within the pecking order after being demoted to Class 11a.
Stenson, who sits seventh on the profession cash checklist having earned greater than £28million on the circuit, was relegated from LIV Golf in August. He’ll make his return to the tour after signing kinds and serving a minimum of a two-month ban. The rule change additionally impacts different gamers comparable to Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey, who all face uncertainty concerning match qualification.
Stenson, the previous Open champion who completed forty ninth within the season-long standings, was ousted by LIV after relegation. “Over the course of a profession, you are going to have good years, you are going to have unhealthy years,” he mentioned. “It is a part of skilled sports activities. You are going to have disappointment. You are going to have good instances. On this finish, I had the worst season out of the workforce, and I am the one within the worst spot. You have simply obtained to cope with it and transfer ahead.”
Experiences counsel Stenson might nonetheless characteristic on the checklist of gamers for the elite tournaments or obtain an invite from sponsors. Nonetheless, the Telegraph’s report signifies that a minimum of one LIV participant has been refused the prospect to compete in January’s Desert Traditional.
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Rory McIlroy reaped the advantages of spurning the breakaway league on the weekend after claiming the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai to safe the Harry Vardon Trophy for the fourth consecutive 12 months.
In doing so, he surpassed golf legend Seve Ballesteros to maneuver inside one victory of equalling Colin Montgomerie, saying: “It [overtaking Ballesteros] is wonderful. I had a dialog with Carmen [Ballesteros’ ex-wife] earlier than I went out to play at this time and he or she advised me how proud he would have been. He means a lot to this Tour and the European Ryder Cup workforce. We rally a lot round his spirit and round his quotes and every thing he meant for European golf. To equal him final 12 months was cool, however to surpass him this 12 months, I did not get this far in my desires, so it’s totally cool.”
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