PALM HARBOR, Fla. Henrik Stenson plans to forge a unique path to the seasons first major for the second straight year.Stenson was a no-show last week at the WGC-Mexico Championship, one of five players ranked inside the top 13 in the world who decided against the trip to Mexico City. But Wednesday at the Valspar Championship he also confirmed plans to skip the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play later this month, once again bypassing world ranking points and a guaranteed paycheck.It will mark the third straight year that the Swede has skipped the PGA Tours only match play tournament, which largely coincides with the Tours decision to adopt a pool play format. Were it still a single-elimination bracket like it was in 2007 when Stenson won his first Tour title hed likely still play.Match play, its kind of do or die for me, Stenson said. Either Im winning and Im staying, or Im losing and Im going home.Stenson did offer a middle ground option like the one used at the British Amateur, where 36 holes of stroke play determine the bracket for single-elimination match play. But given the current format structure, he wont be making the trip to Austin.
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Stenson hasnt played since the Maybank Championship five weeks ago, but despite his decision to skip another WGC event, this weeks stop at Innisbrook kicks off a busy spring stretch. Hell also play next weeks Arnold Palmer Invitational, with a week off followed by a trips to the Houston Open and ultimately the Masters.Its the same approach he used last year, when he withdrew from the WGC event in Mexico because of illness. After a T-7 finish at Valspar, Stenson missed the cut in each of the subsequent three events.Ive got a big stretch ahead of me, Stenson said. Its all a lead up to the Masters of course, and Ive done some good work and I guess Im here to get some answers this week, to see whats working and whats potentially not working and how to move along for the next couple of weeks.
Henrik Stenson withdrew from the WGC-Match Play because he doesn't like the new round-robin format. Justin Rose, the Olympic gold medalist, has also decided to skip the event.
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