Danish Golf Tour Explained

Danish Golf Tour
Formerly:	Scanplan Tour
Sport:	Golf
Founded:	2002
Inaugural:	2003
Countries:	Based in Denmark
Most Champs:	Tournament wins: Jens Dantorp (4) Jacob Glennemo (4)
Website:	https://www.eccotour.org/
Related Comps:	Finnish Tour Nordic Golf League Norwegian Golf Tour Swedish Golf Tour
Founder:	Dan Stage PGA of Denmark

The Danish Golf Tour, currently titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons, is a developmental professional golf tour based in Denmark. Similar to the Swedish Golf Tour, most events on the Danish Golf Tour schedule are incorporated into the Nordic Golf League, one of the third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.

History

The tour was founded in 2002 as a joint venture by Dan Stage and the PGA of Denmark. The aim of the tour being to provide a new generation of golfers with optimal conditions for developing their game.^[1] The inaugural season was in 2003 where the tour hosted ten tournaments, culminating in a total prize fund of .

The tour originally signed a three-year agreement in 2002 with Danish-based shoe manufacturer ECCO who would be the inaugural title sponsor of the tour for the first three seasons.^[1] The agreement was ceased in 2006 and Scanplan Ejendomme became the new title sponsor of the tour. This deal lasted until 2007, when ECCO was reinstated as the title sponsor for the 2008 season onwards.^[2]

The Order of Merit has commonly been titled as the Race to HimmerLand, with the final event on the schedule in recent seasons being played at the HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort (also host to the Made in HimmerLand event on the European Tour).^{[3] [4]}

Seasons

See main article: article and Danish Golf Tour seasons.

Order of Merit winners

Year	Winner	Points
	No Order of Merit awarded
		225,727
		178,563
		123,066
		146,909
		222,141
		171,213
Year	Winner	Prize money (DKr)
		253,591
		282,813
		280,040
		197,385
		204,438
		290,136
		182,119
		216,000
		191,432
Year	Winner	Points
		13,390
		1,484
		1,153
		1,448
		1,295

See also

• Finnish Tour
• Nordic Golf League
• Norwegian Golf Tour
• Swedish Golf Tour

Notes and References

1. Web site: About the tour . Scanplan Tour . 29 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070503212404/http://www.scanplantour.dk/494/ . 3 May 2007.
2. Web site: ECCO Tour endnu stærkere i 2008 . Danish . PGA of Denmark . 25 January 2008 . 29 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080204102528/http://www.pga.dk/dk/om_pga/pga_nyt/ecco_tour_endnu_staerkere_i_2008.htm . 4 February 2008.
3. Web site: John Axelsen vinder Race to Himmerland . Danish . sn.dk . 7 October 2022 . 29 October 2022.
4. Web site: Made in Denmark joins the European Tour in 2014 . European Tour . 14 May 2013 . 29 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140813210129/http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2014/tournamentid=2014064/news/newsid=191544.html . 13 August 2014.