DP World Tour: Henrik Stenson resigns after LIV players hit with fines and bans

Henrik Stenson won the Open successful 2016

Henrik Stenson has resigned from the DP World Tour aft it imposed further sanctions connected 26 players who competed without consent successful LIV Golf events.

The DP World Tour issued bans of up to 8 events and fines up to £100,000 for each tourney regularisation breach.

"It is bittersweet it has travel to this, but it wasn't unexpected," said Stenson, 47.

Speaking to Golf Digest, the 2016 Open champion added: "They near maine with nary different prime truthful I person resigned. That's it. I don't truly consciousness similar it volition bash immoderate bully to excavation into this excessively deeply.

"I'm appreciative of what the circuit has done for maine implicit the years. But they person chosen however they privation to presumption the future. And we person evidently done the same. Unfortunately, they don't spell unneurotic astatine this point."

The DP World Tour's sanctions are based connected idiosyncratic cases with fines ranging from £12,500 to £100,000 for each breach and subordinate to the play betwixt 22 June, 2022, to 2 April, 2023.

Stenson said helium had not added up the full outgo of his fines but added that they were "anywhere betwixt £50,000 and £75,000 per LIV event".

He played successful 4 events successful 2022 and has played successful 5 successful 2023. Two of those were aft the 2 April cut-off, though the DP World Tour says "further sanctions" for events played aft 2 April "will beryllium considered successful owed course".

Players that person resigned their rank volition not beryllium reinstated until they person paid their fine, from which constituent their suspensions would apply.

Stenson joins Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and Richard Bland successful resigning their membership.

In April, an arbitration sheet sided with the European-based circuit successful its ineligible conflict against 12 players who had appealed against being fined £100,000 and suspended from the Scottish Open for playing successful LIV Golf's inaugural lawsuit successful June 2022 without permission.