2008 Swedish Golf Tour (women) explained

Year:2008
Tour:Swedish Golf Tour (women)
No Of Events:12
Most Wins:2:
Honor1:Order of Merit
Prevseason:2007
Nextseason:2009

The 2008 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the SAS Masters Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Finland.[1]

Scandinavian Airlines replaced Telia Company as the tour's main sponsor and minimum purse for tournaments were raised to SEK 300,000. The sponsorship agreement amounted to a total of SEK 55 million and included the men's SAS Masters (formerly Scandinavian Masters) and women's SAS Masters in Norway.

The Swedish International, held since 1962 and included on the tour since its inception in 1986, was discontinued.

Teenage twins Jacqueline and Caroline Hedwall finished top at the inaugural SAS Masters Tour event. Catrin Nilsmark and Czech Republic's Zuzana Masinova both won two events, and Masinova won the Order of Merit thanks to three runner-up finishes.

25 places at the LET event Göteborg Masters was reserved for players of the tour.[2]

Schedule

The season consisted of 12 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland, and one was a Ladies European Tour event.[3]

DateTournamentLocationWinnerScoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-upPurse
(SEK)
NoteRef
Caroline Hedwall (a) 216 (+2) 2 strokes Jacqueline Hedwall (a) 300,000 [4]
Botkyrka 219 (+3) 2 strokes 300,000 [5]
216 (+6) 3 strokes 300,000 [6]
Aura, Finland 207 (−6) 6 strokes 300,000 [7]
300,000 [8]
Örebro Anna Nordqvist (a) 300,000 [9]
Norrtelje 219 (+3) 1 stroke 300,000 [10]
Bråviken 216 (E) 1 stroke 300,000 [11]
Landeryd 211 (−5) 7 strokes 300,000 [12]
Lycke 259 (−29) 11 strokes €250,000 LET event [13]
211 (+1) Playoff 300,000 [14]
Kallfors 215 (−1) 2 strokes 300,000 [15]

Order of Merit

An official feeder tour for the Ladies European Tour, the top two finishers in the Order of Merit earned LET cards for 2009.[16] The two qualifiers received Exemption Category 7, ahead of the 30 Q-School graduates with Category 8A. Johanna Lundberg received the second card, as Catrin Nilsmark was already exempt in Category 2, after winning an LET major, the Evian Masters.[17]

Rank Player
1 Zuzana Masinova
2 Catrin Nilsmark
3 Johanna Lundberg

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jansson, Anders . Golf - Den Stora Sporten' . Swedish . Golf - the Great Sport . Swedish Golf Federation . 2008 . 91-86818007 . 278 . 6 February 2021.
  2. Web site: Starkt schema för SAS Masters Tour . Swedish Golf Federation . 26 May 2021.
  3. Web site: Svensk Golf 6/2008 . Swedish Golf Federation . 26 May 2021 . 204.
  4. Web site: Results 2008 Telenor Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  5. Web site: Results 2008 IT-Arkitekterna Ladies Open. Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  6. Web site: Results 2008 Kungsängen Queens Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  7. Web site: Results 2008 Felix Finnish Ladies Open . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  8. Web site: Results 2008 Smådalarö Gård Open . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  9. Web site: Results 2008 SM Match Damer . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  10. Web site: Results 2008 PGA Open Damer . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  11. Web site: Results 2008 VW Söderberg Ladies Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  12. Web site: Results 2008 Svensk Biogas Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  13. Web site: Results 2008 Göteborg Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  14. Web site: Results 2008 Mölle Masters . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  15. Web site: Results 2008 Volkswagen Open . Golfdata . 17 May 2021.
  16. Web site: Svensk Golf 6/2008 . Swedish Golf Federation . 26 May 2021 . 201.
  17. Web site: 2009 LET Media Guide . Ladies European Tour . 30 May 2021 . 21.