Henrik Stenson, the 2016 Open Championship winner, will return to the DP World Tour next season after a four-year stint with LIV Golf, according to multiple reports.
The 49-year-old Swede, who was stripped of the 2023 European Ryder Cup captaincy after signing with LIV in 2022, was relegated from the league at the end of this season after finishing 49th in the points standings.
Stenson has paid more than £1 million in fines imposed by the DP World Tour in connection with his defection, thus paving the way for his return to the European circuit, the U.K. website Bunkered first reported.
Meanwhile, former LIV Golf competitor Laurie Canter, the 36-year-old Englishman who earned a 2026 PGA Tour card by virtue of his play this year on the DP World Tour, is set to forsake his opportunity in the States for a return to LIV Golf, Sports Business Journal reported. And Frenchman Victor Perez, who made 25 PGA Tour starts this season, withdrew before last week’s RSM Classic after it was announced he would join LIV Golf’s Cleeks Golf Club next season. READ MORE
“ I think if Lexi plays to her abilities, I would be crazy to leave her home.”
Angela Stanford, the 2026 U.S. Solheim Cup captain, addressing the possibility of choosing part-time player Lexi Thompson for her squad in a Golfweek interview.
Dustin Satloff, USGA
“Too stupid to quit” is how Adam Schenk described himself on the eve of winning the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, his first PGA Tour victory in 243 career starts, two Sundays ago.
Schenk, 33, changed his career path by surviving Bermuda’s gusty winds and, when the conditions were calm enough, putting with only one hand (his right hand) on the club, a move suggested by three-time PGA Tour winner Mike Hulbert, who once putted one-handed for a full season on tour.
It’s one thing to hit one-handed putts on the practice green – it has been a part of Tiger Woods’ pre-round putting sessions – but it’s something else entirely to do it in competition knowing that one more lousy week could force a trip back to Q-School just to keep your job.
That’s where Schenk found himself, windblown and wondering if what he was doing was the right thing or just another Band-Aid. The wind, which gusted over 30 mph at times, made it too difficult for Schenk to putt one-handed all the time but the fact that he did it is a testimony to his willingness to try something radical. READ MORE
Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent finished atop the Asian Tour’s International Series Rankings upon Saturday’s conclusion of the series’ final event, the PIF Saudi International.
It’s the second time Vincent has topped the rankings, having claimed the inaugural edition in 2022, and means he will return next year to LIV Golf, where he played in 2023 and ’24. He will be joined in the league by Japan’s Yosuke Asaji, who held on to second place in the rankings despite missing the cut in Saudi Arabia. Filipino Miguel Tabuena came agonizingly close to dislodging Asaji after finishing in a tie for 11th in the Saudi event – he was just 25.25 points behind the Japanese golfer in third place. READ MORE
Tap-Ins
England’s Aaron Rai will replace Justin Thomas in the field at next week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Thomas is recovering from a recent microdiscectomy surgery on his back. READ MORE
Cedric Gugler, a 25-year-old Swiss player, has been suspended from Europe’s developmental HotelPlanner Tour for the first 10 tournaments of next season for a “serious breach” of the tour’s behavior code, the European Tour Group announced Friday. The decision stems from Gugler’s disqualification from a June tournament in Czechia after playing his ball from the wrong place on putting surfaces on multiple occasions, the announcement said. READ MORE
The LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship will move to Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, next year, the tour announced last Tuesday. READ MORE
Next year’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship will feature a 60-player field, down from 75 players, while moving from French Lick, Indiana, to The Federal Club in Glen Allen, Virginia. The tournament will cap a 25-event schedule that was announced last Tuesday. READ MORE
Compiled by Mike Cullity
