| Volvo Cross Country Challenge | |
| Establishment: | 2005 |
| Tour: | Ladies European Tour |
| Purse: | $120,000 $1,000,000 (bonus) Volvo XC70 |
| Final Year: | 2007 |
| Final Champion: | Kiran Matharu |
The Volvo Cross Country Challenge was a women's professional golf series on the Ladies European Tour. It was a separate dedicated yearly order of merit for events in the Nordic region and held each year from 2005 to 2007.
The winner of the challenge received a Volvo car and prize money. The 18-year-old Kiran Matharu from Leeds, England, had yet to learn to drive when she won the Volvo Cross Country Challenge and a brand new Volvo XC70 in 2007.[1]
To qualify, players had to participate in at least three out of four of the LET tournaments hosted in Nordic countries:
Prize money collected in these tournaments were added up in a "Volvo XC Challenge Order-of-Merit". The top ten players on this Order-of-Merit shared a prize fund of $120,000.
In addition, players could get $1,000,000 bonus by winning all four of the above tournaments in one season.[2]
| Year | Winner | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [3] | |||
| 2006 | [4] [5] [6] [7] | ||
| 2005 | [8] [9] [10] |
