Stenson On Golf In The COVID-19 Era, Update On Pete Cowen

The Guardian’s Ewan Murray spoke to Henrik Stenson about having little desire to practice with no tournaments looming and hundreds of thousands suffering due to the COVID-19 virus and gets this perspective.

“There’s a lot of fun stuff available for the kids and for us here [at the family home in Florida] but I’m not sure I should mention that when you have someone locked in an apartment and can’t go outside,” Stenson says. “It’s disastrous on a global level from people being really sick to losing their lives, to the world economy plummeting. Anyone who lives paycheque to paycheque is going to feel this. Everyone will to a degree but it feels corny if I am going to complain when people are losing their jobs.”

He also gives an update on his coach, Pete Cowen, who he says did test positive for the virus but who he believes will “get through” it.

“He picked it up on his travels, from what I understand,” Stenson says. “I hope and believe he wasn’t contagious when I last saw him. I think he will get through it but he has been feeling pretty bad.”