{"id":21379,"date":"2016-11-21T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/stenson-crowned-number-one-on-the-european-tour-for-the-second-time\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:32:22","slug":"stenson-crowned-number-one-on-the-european-tour-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/stenson-crowned-number-one-on-the-european-tour-for-the-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stenson crowned number one on the European Tour for the second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Actualidad2016\/Dubai-Fitzpatrick-Ps.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Until this year only two &#8216;continental&#8217; Europeans had finished as&nbsp;number one on the European Tour on more than one occasion: Severiano Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer. Now there are three, after Henrik Stenson signed a final round&nbsp;of 65 strokes in the DP World Tour Championship, won by Matthew Fitzpatrick (pictured), to secure his second Race to Dubai title (the first&nbsp;was achieved in 2013). Earlier this year, Stenson had also become the first Swede to win a Major, the British Open, and also won&nbsp;the silver medal at the Olympic Games.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to have my name on this trophy once again,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a great year, the best of my career. I always thought it was going to be hard to top&nbsp;2013, but I think I&#8217;ve done it this year, with the Open, the Olympics and the Race to Dubai again. So it&#8217;s been a great year and I&#8217;m&nbsp;delighted to have finished it this way.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>Recalling the names on the Harry Vardon Trophy awarded by the European Tour to the season&#8217;s number one, he added: &#8220;We have Ballesteros, we have Langer, we have Faldo, and then of course in the last few years we are more familiar with the names that won it; and&nbsp;Norman is there. It shows a lot of history. To win it once is very satisfying, and to win it twice is even more so. So it&#8217;s been a fantastic season, and it&#8217;s great to top it off like this.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>The other top prize on the final day of the season went to Englishman Fitzpatrick, whose&nbsp;birdie&nbsp;on the 18th gave him victory by a single stroke at&nbsp;the DP World Championship at&nbsp;Dubai. Tyrrell Hatton was ahead of him by&nbsp;one stroke on the 18th tee, but bogeyed the last hole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until this year only two &#8216;continental&#8217; Europeans had finished as&nbsp;number one on the European Tour on more than one occasion: Severiano Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer. Now there are three, after Henrik Stenson signed a final round&nbsp;of 65 strokes in the DP World Tour Championship, won by Matthew Fitzpatrick (pictured), to secure his second Race to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}