Beware of the sick golfer.
Henrik Stenson, who spent much of the week in bed with the flu, opened the Nedbank Golf Challenge with a 6-under 66 Thursday at Gary Player Country Club to grab a share of the first-round lead with South Africa's Jaco Van Zyl.
“I’ve been in bed with the flu for three days, and after I had to pull out of the pro-am on Tuesday I probably had a 5-percent chance of playing," Stenson said. "I felt quite a bit better this morning and the doctor didn’t see any reason why I couldn’t play.