2020 Swedish Golf Tour Explained

Year:2020
Tour:Swedish Golf Tour
Regular Season:
No Of Events:12
Most Wins: Ludvig Åberg (2)
Honor1:Order of Merit
Honoree1: Mikael Lindberg
Prevseason:2019
Nextseason:2021

The 2020 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 37th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Sweden since it was formed in 1984, with most tournaments being incorporated into the Nordic Golf League since 1999.

MoreGolf Mastercard title sponsorship

In March, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with MoreGolf Mastercard, being renamed as the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour.[1]

In-season changes

The 2020 schedule initially consisted of 26 tournaments, 16 of them, in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Spain, included in the 2020 schedule. After a four-month break and rescheduling, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 SGT schedule included 12 tournaments, two of them played in Spain in February and March, the remaining 10 in Sweden. Due to travel restrictions, four tournaments was taken away from the 2020 Nordic Golf League Order of Merit Golfbox Road to Europe, but was still counted on the 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour and still earned OWGR points.[2]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2020 season.[3]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
(SKr)
WinnerMain
tour
25 FebLumine Hills OpenSpain550,000 Marcus HelligkildeNGL
1 MarLumine Lakes OpenSpain550,000 Mikael LindbergNGL
30 Apr Elisefarm Open Skåne Cancelled NGL
18 Jun Gamle Fredrikstad Open Norway Postponed NGL
26 Jun Sand Golf Club Open Småland Cancelled NGL
4 JulKatrineholm OpenSödermanland430,000 Ludvig Åberg (a) (1)
9 Jul Kongsvinger Open Norway Cancelled NGL
16 JulBarsebäck Resort MastersSkåne350,000 Ludvig Åberg (a) (2)
24 JulStockholm TrophySödermanland380,000 Mikael Lindberg (1)
28 JulSM MatchUppland350,000 Martin Eriksson (1)
1 AugPGA Championship Bråviken OpenÖstergötland500,000 Björn Hellgren (3)
14 AugLanderyd MastersÖstergötland400,000 Robin PeterssonNGL
27 AugV Sport Golf ChallengeSkåne350,000 Joakim WikströmNGL
29 Aug Finland Cancelled NGL
4 Sep
16 May
TanumStrand Fjällbacka OpenBohuslän420,000 Pelle EdbergNGL
24 SepVisby OpenGotland380,000 Joakim WikströmNGL
9 OctLindbytvätten Tour FinalÖland400,000 Lasse JensenNGL

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was titled as the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking and was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[4]

PositionPlayerPoints
1 434,903
2 242,608
3 200,503
4 Ludvig Åberg (a) 172,740
5 146,980

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MoreGolf Mastercard sponsrar den svenska herrtouren i golf . MoreGolf Mastercard sponsors the Swedish Men's Tour in golf . sv . Hållbar sponsring . 20 March 2020 . 25 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Covid-19 update . 25 March 2020 . 20 April 2020 . Danish Golf Tour . 17 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200517073218/http://eccotour.org/nordicgolfleague/covid-19-update/.
  3. Web site: 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour . Swedish Golf Federation . 25 September 2023 . sv.
  4. Web site: 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking . Danish Golf Tour . 26 October 2022.