1996 Swedish Golf Tour

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1996 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration16 May 1996 (1996-05-16) – 28 September 1996 (1996-09-28)
Number of official events14
Order of Merit Flag of Sweden.svg Adam Mednick
1995
1997

The 1996 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 1996 Telia Infomedia Golf Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th 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 Challenge Tour between 1989 and 1998.

Contents

Telia title sponsorship

In December 1995, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Telia Company, being renamed as the Telia Infomedia Golf Tour. [1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1996 season. [2] [3]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
(SKr)
Winner [lower-alpha 1] Main
tour [lower-alpha 2]
18 MayMotoman Robotics OpenSmåland100,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Daniel Olsson (1)
25 MayHelsingborg Golf OpenSkåne125,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Peter Henriksson (1)
2 Jun SIAB Open Skåne£35,000 Flag of Finland.svg Kalle Väinölä CHA
9 Jun Himmerland Open Denmark£35,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Diethelm CHA
16 Jun Västerås Open Västmanland150,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Johan Axgren CHA
23 Jun Team Erhverv Danish Open Denmark£70,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Robert Jonsson CHA
7 JulUno-X Skövde OpenVästergötland100,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Martin Erlandsson (1)
14 Jul Volvo Finnish Open Finland£35,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Bäck CHA
18 Aug Gefle Open Gästrikland175,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Chris Hanell (1)
25 Aug Toyota Danish PGA Championship Denmark£40,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Adam Mednick CHA
1 Sep Kentab/RBG Open Västmanland£40,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Max Anglert CHA
8 Sep SM Match Play Småland£50,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Adam Mednick CHA
14 SepBorås OpenVästergötland150,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Kristofer Svensson (1)
28 Sep Telia InfoMedia Grand Prix Skåne1,000,000 Flag of England.svg Scott Watson CHA

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. [4]

PositionPlayerPoints
1 Flag of Sweden.svg Adam Mednick 2,325
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Johan Axgren 1,241
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Robert Jonsson 1,142
4 Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Gottfridsson 963
5 Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Bäck 927

See also

Notes

  1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Swedish Golf Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. As most Swedish Golf Tour events are incorporated into the Challenge Tour schedules, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  2. CHA − Challenge Tour.

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References

  1. "Nytt slutspel värt miljone" [New playoff worth millions]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 12. December 1995. p. 22. Retrieved 14 October 2023. Därefter gällde det att finna en långsiktig samarbetspartner, villig att helhjärtat satsa på SGT. Det var naturligt att valet föll på Telia-koncernen...[Next it was a matter of finding a long-term partner, willing to invest wholeheartedly in SGT. It was natural that the choice fell on the Telia Group...]
  2. "Tävlingsarrangörerna 1996" [Competition organisation 1996]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. May 1996. p. 90. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  3. Jansson, Anders (2004). "Swedish Golf Tour/Telia Tour". Golf - Den Stora Sporten (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 277–279. ISBN   91-86818007 . Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. "Telia InfoMedia Ranking 1996". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 11. November 1996. p. 91. Retrieved 14 October 2023.