The Comeback King

And how do you keep that up going forward?

I think just trying to be wary of my time and making sure that I can dedicate enough time with all the different parts that really got my game into good shape. I know there's a lot of room for improvement still, a lot of areas where I can become much, much better and certain areas I'm going to benefit more from improving on than others. Again, we know it's going up and down.

Hopefully I can stay away from playing the way I did in 2011 going forward, but you can never guarantee it, and there's always going to be up and downs, and part of the year where you're going to play better and worse and so on. That's just part of life and part of golf. The stock market is not going in a perfect up all the time, either.

I just have to manage my time and make sure I still dedicate enough focus and time to all these processes that have - instead of doing interviews with everyone from around the world. [Laughs].

You mention the stock market. You had a well-documented financial issue a few years ago [Stenson lost a reported US$8 million in a scheme set up by convicted fraudster Allen Stanford]. How much did that affect what happened to your game?

It was obviously not great news back in whenever it was, February of 2009. But then again, I can't really say that affected my golf that much, because I won the biggest - up until now, anyway, my biggest achievement was winning The PLAYERS Championship in May 2009. So that was three months after that whole thing was revealed. It wasn't like I've got it for five days in the middle of May and then all of a sudden I was reminded of it after. You know, it's not something that you have to do, to have part of your investments … being caught up in a thing like that.

Then again, that's only one little part in a bigger picture, and I can't say that I played poorly since 2011 because I potentially lost a chunk of money in 2009. It wouldn't make it - to just blame it on something like that.

After a season like this, what are your goals for 2014? Everyone is talking about Majors …

Yeah, I mean, seeing as how I managed to win both the FedEx and The Race to Dubai - yeah, a major championship would obviously be the one thing missing on my result roll. I'm going to try my hardest. It's one of the tougher things to achieve. That's why they call it a Major championship; they’re the biggest events against the strongest fields on some of the toughest courses.

But again, it's about developing my game, trying to become better, and hopefully I can prepare well and put myself in good position at any of those events going forward, and that's what makes you win golf tournaments; being up there on Sunday afternoon. The more times you can put yourself in contention, the more times you will win. That's what I've done so many times this year by playing solid, good golf, and then I managed to win my fair share, as well, as a consequence of that.

Sweden is a great golfing nation, but one without a male Major winner. Is there any added pressure on you because of that?

Not really. I'd love to be the first male golfer from Sweden to win a Major championship. That would be great. But if one of my colleagues from Sweden would win one, you know, that would be great, too. All credit to whoever manages to do it, to win the first one.

For me, it's more about trying to give myself chances to win one, and whether I'm first or second, that's going to be of less relevance, as long as I can win one.

But again, you know, looking ahead, I've got a lot of experience at this point, but I might have four or five good years hopefully ahead of me and in that 15, 20 times, you can eventually win a Major championship. So it's not like you get a million chances.

I don't think I will go there with added pressure. I think I will go there with more confidence after being able to achieve the things that I've achieved this season, and I'm also very excited because I felt like at The Open Championship and the US PGA, I probably didn't play the best out of all these weeks that I've played and I still came that close. If things were going my way, I could potentially have won both those Majors this summer, and hopefully another time I'm the one who makes the extra putt and things go my way. It's all about being patient and preparing and trying to put myself in the mix again.