Confident Stenson aims for the top

HENRIK STENSON talks as straight as he drives and he made his ambition for the year clear – to end it as Europe’s number one.

The big-hitting Swede claimed his first title in two years at the Commercialbank Qatar Masters, holding off England’s Paul Broadhurst, and in doing so, moved up to second on the European Tour Order of Merit.

Broadhurst, who finished three strokes off the lead to win himself £125,000, described his opponent as “the next special one in Europe”, even talking in terms of the 29-year-old being a potential Major winner.