The Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson is The Next One.
Every sport needs a great rivalry, and a challenger to its greatest champion.
Tennis: Borg-McEnroe
Formula One: Prost-Senna
Basketball: Bird-Magic
College Ovalball: Ohio State-Michigan
Football: Argentine-Brazil
Et al.
Tiger Wood and golf has had its contenders:
Duval, Els, Garcia, Mickelson...
Many have been expected to become the player who would become Tiger's "McEnroe".
His arch rival.
Els came closest.
But he's a few years older and from a different generation. Thus, he doesn't play the same way that the new generation does.
Despite his extreme length.
Henrik Stenson, winning the Match Play Championships, the fifth major in many ways, has the length and all the other qualities, the mental aggressiveness of the new generation.
-Hedge
