Monday 18 July 2016 08:03, UK
After Henrik Stenson's incredible victory in The Open at Royal Troon, Butch Harmon believes that the Swede can now push on and add to his maiden major title…
When Dustin Johnson finally won his first major at Oakmont last month after having had so many chances, I said that I thought the floodgates might open and I'm going to say the same now. The dam just broke! Henrik Stenson blasted right through it and this man is going to win a lot!
He has been in contention plenty of times before and I think that tells you how hard it is to win a major. Just because you play good doesn't mean that you're going to win, Phil Mickelson proved that on Sunday.
It's hard to win a major, Stenson has had his chances but he always seemed to get beat. He didn't lose them, somebody was beating him. Well, he went out and beat somebody on Sunday and he did it with style - he birdied 14, 15, 16, 18. Are you kidding me?
Coming down the stretch when you've never won a major before and doing that - this man was an ironman.
We talked about it before the championship, saying that if he could get his head around it and keep his concentration then he'd have a chance to win.
And this week, he was not only in the zone physically but mentally too, he just had a calmness about him with the way he went about his business and the shots he hit.
He never got rattled, no matter what happened. I am just so amazed at what he did in that final round.
For Phil, it must be pretty hard to get your head around it. He started the day one behind, went out and shot 65 and lost by three. How in the world can that happen? It happened because Henrik Stenson probably played the best round of golf that he's played in his life - and he had to.
He was on the biggest stage and he delivered. He bogeyed the first hole, Mickelson birdied it and this guy was like a rock, all day long.
For Sky to broadcast The Open for the first time and we get this Sunday? Wow, that's special.
