Captained Continental Europe in the Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros in 2009, leading his team to a rousing comeback in the Singles which they won 6-4. Despite overall defeat, the Dane showed the leadership qualities which were recognised when he was appointed Chairman of The European Tour’s Tournament Committee in 2007. Those leadership skills were again in evidence at The 2010 Ryder Cup, where he was one of Colin Montgomerie’s Vice-Captains, a role he also filled at Oakland Hills in 2004. Played on the Challenge Tour in his early professional career and won four titles on his way to topping the Rankings in 1995, before emerging as a genuinely world class player by capturing the Loch Lomond World Invitational in 1996 – the first of his 11 European Tour victories to date, the most recent coming in the 2011 Commercialbank Qatar Masters presented by Dolphin Energy. That early victory at Loch Lomond was the springboard for him to become the first Danish golfer to play in The Ryder Cup, a feat he first achieved in 1997 at Valderrama. Qualified automatically again for a second successful Ryder Cup appearance in 2002. A football fan, he is a keen supporter of Liverpool FC.