2023 Ryder Cup Cart Lead Driver Race Update And Henrik Stenson On Playing The Saudi International

The Guardian’s Ewan Murray says the 2023 Captaincy race is between Henrik Stenson and Luke Donald.

Like Lee Westwood, who backed out of consideration, Stenson tells Murray he still may have another Ryder Cup in him but remains interested in the job.

And like Westwood, he employed his signature dry wit to suggest why fining some players for teeing up in the Bonesaw would be absurd. In Stenson’s case, he committed to playing the event for three years and before the European Tour, now DP World Tour, would break off from the Saudi and schedule a competing event.

“It is one of those situations and I can only say that I had an arrangement to come back and play. It’s been a good tournament on the schedule and it fitted in once again on my schedule. I will fulfil my commitment to go and play there and what happens in terms of the tour, who knows? I believe there’s a European Tour event in Ras al Khaimah the same week. The other one was planned ahead of that one and you can’t be in two places at the same time, I found that out a long time ago.”