The sourest form of vindication was sweet for Henrik Stenson yesterday as he filled the void of his Ryder Cup captaincy with an oil drum of dollars. Rarely has fate conspired to such great effect as when the curtain fell on LIV Golf’s latest act of debauchery, leaving their most divisive signing to share the stage with Donald Trump and a cohort of Saudi executives.
It was a fitting finale to a week that has ransacked new depths of indecency and will be better remembered as a tawdry campaign rally rather than a tournament. That will be of little consequence to Stenson, who has lined his pockets with a further $4 million (about £3.3 million) for winning outright and another $375,000 owing to the team