Thomas Bjorn will use his all-time Liverpool hero as inspiration when he attempts to lead Europe to Ryder Cup success in France this weekend.
The Dane, who has been a Reds fan since childhood, is set to captain a 12-man team of the continent’s top golfers against their United States counterparts across three days of fierce and partisan competition from Friday.
If Bjorn needed any further motivation for the challenge – and potential achievement – ahead, he must surely have got it when he visited Anfield to see Jürgen Klopp’s side beat Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League thriller earlier this month.