GLORIOUS HOMECOMING

Henrik Stenson spent the start of the year cruising round the California countryside in a 40-foot RV. No golf clubs. This is how the Swede likes to relax. He’s not winding things down, even if after 20 years on tour he could be forgiven for taking his foot off the gas.

Let’s recap: 11 European Tour victories, one Claret Jug, an Olympic silver medal, five Ryder Cups, twice Europe’s number one and, most importantly – if you share Paul Azinger’s opinion – a multiple PGA Tour winner and FedExCup champion.

This season, however, was meant to be one of the Swede’s busiest ever, with a new focus – the Scandinavian Mixed.

Several new tournaments have been added to the schedule in recent years, but when this event was jointly announced by the European Tour and Ladies European Tour last year, it immediately jumped out as one to pencil in the