It was somewhat unlikely that Alex Norén would go out in a leading ball during the fourth and final day of the major tournament PGA Championship at the difficult Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It was only last week that the 42-year-old made a comeback on the golf course after a nearly seven-month-long injury break. Then Norén finished in a shared 51st place on the US tour.
Started three strokes behind
On Sunday, he went out in the PGA Championship's final ball together with world number one Scottie Scheffler. On the first tee, the leading American had a lead – after four played holes, Norén was five strokes behind. This after two bogeys for the Swede.
Even though Norén after nine played holes had managed to reduce the distance to two strokes, the Swede began to lose ground when the second half of the round began.
On hole 10, it was a bogey for Norén while Scheffler putted in a birdie. After a new bogey for Norén on the 11th, the 42-year-old was suddenly five strokes behind the world number one again.
It became a new bogey for Norén on hole 13 (par 3) and with –4 total, he fell to a shared 12th place.
After 13 played holes, Scheffler leads on ten strokes under par – one stroke ahead of Spaniard Jon Rahm.
The winner of the PGA Championship takes home a victory check of 33.4 million kronor (3.42 million dollars).
Stenson won in 2016
Scheffler is chasing his third major title – the two previous ones he took in US Masters (2022 and 2024) at Augusta National.
Henrik Stenson is the only Swedish male player who has won a major tournament. Stensson took home the British Open.
Alex Norén has won ten times in his career on the European Tour (now DP World Tour), but has never won on the PGA Tour. At best, he has second places three times.
The competition is ongoing.
Annika Sörenstam: US Open 1995, 1996, 2006. Nabisco 2001, 2002, 2005. LPGA Championship 2003, 2004, 2005. British Open: 2003.
Anna Nordqvist: LPGA Championship 2009. Evian Championship 2017. British Open 2021.
Liselotte Neumann: US Open 1988.
Helen Alfredsson: Nabisco 1993.
Henrik Stenson: British Open 2016.
Pernilla Lindberg: Ana Inspiration (formerly Nabisco) 2018.
