Duration | February 2008 – December 2008 |
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Number of official events | 30 (1 cancelled) |
Order of Merit | ![]() |
Player of the Year | ![]() |
Rookie of the Year | ![]() |
Lowest stroke average | ![]() |
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The 2008 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2008. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).
The tour featured 28 official money events with prize money totalling more than €10.5 million, as well as the Women's World Cup of Golf and the European Ladies Golf Cup. Gwladys Nocera won the Order of Merit with earnings of €391,840, ahead of Helen Alfredsson, who finished second despite only having played in three events. Melissa Reid won Rookie of the Year honours, after finishing 12th in the Order of Merit.
The table below shows the 2008 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour. [1]
Major championships |
LET majors in bold |
Regular events |
Team championships |
Dates | Tournament | Location | Winner | Purse (€) | Notes |
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20 Jan | Women's World Cup of Golf | South Africa | ![]() and Dorothy Delasin (n/a) | $1,400,000 | Team event co-sanctioned by the five main women's tours; unofficial prize money |
3 Feb | Women's Australian Open | Australia | ![]() | A$ 400,000 | Co-sanctioned by the ALPG Tour |
10 Feb | ANZ Ladies Masters | Australia | ![]() | A$ 480,000 | Co-sanctioned by the ALPG Tour |
6 Apr | European Ladies Golf Cup | Spain | ![]() and Rebecca Hudson | 300,000 | Team event; new in 2008; unofficial prize money |
20 Apr | Open De España Femenino | Spain | ![]() | 275,000 | |
3 May | Ladies Scottish Open | Scotland | ![]() | 200,000 | |
11 May | Turkish Ladies Open | Turkey | ![]() | 250,000 | New tournament |
25 May | Ladies Swiss Open | Switzerland | ![]() | 525,000 | |
1 Jun | Ladies German Open | Germany | ![]() | 250,000 | New tournament |
8 Jun | Dutch Ladies Open | Netherlands | ![]() | 250,000 | |
15 Jun | Ladies Open of Portugal | Portugal | ![]() | 200,000 | |
22 Jun | Tenerife Ladies Open | Spain | ![]() | 300,000 | |
6 Jul | Ladies English Open | England | ![]() | 165,000 | |
13 Jul | Ladies Irish Open | Ireland | ![]() | 450,000 | New tournament |
20 Jul | BMW Ladies Italian Open | Italy | ![]() | 400,000 | |
27 Jul | Evian Masters | France | ![]() | $3,250,000 | Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour |
3 Aug | Ricoh Women's British Open | England | ![]() | $2,100,000 | Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour |
10 Aug | Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika | Sweden | ![]() | 200,000 | |
17 Aug | Wales Ladies Championship of Europe | Wales | ![]() | 450,000 | |
24 Aug | SAS Masters | Norway | ![]() | 200,000 | |
31 Aug | Finnair Masters | Finland | ![]() | 200,000 | |
7 Sep | Nykredit Masters | Denmark | ![]() | 200,000 | |
14 Sep | Austrian Ladies Open | Austria | ![]() | 250,000 | |
21 Sep | Göteborg Masters | Sweden | ![]() | 250,000 | New tournament |
28 Sep | Open de France Dames | France | ![]() | 350,000 | |
4 Oct | Madrid Ladies Masters | Spain | ![]() | 400,000 | |
2 Nov | Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open | China | ![]() | 200,000 | Co-sanctioned by the Ladies Asian Golf Tour |
16 Nov | Saint Four Ladies Masters in Jeju | South Korea | ![]() | 500,000 | Co-sanctioned by the LPGA of Korea Tour |
Indian Ladies Masters | India | Cancelled [2] | |||
14 Dec | Dubai Ladies Masters | United Arab Emirates | ![]() | 500,000 |
Rank | Player | Country | Earnings (€) |
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1 | Gwladys Nocera | ![]() | 391,840 |
2 | Helen Alfredsson | ![]() | 320,100 |
3 | Martina Eberl | ![]() | 227,296 |
4 | Amy Yang | ![]() | 227,179 |
5 | Anja Monke | ![]() | 184,779 |
6 | Suzann Pettersen | ![]() | 183,279 |
7 | Lotta Wahlin | ![]() | 181,114 |
8 | Paula Martí | ![]() | 162,698 |
9 | Lisa Hall | ![]() | 157,289 |
10 | Rebecca Hudson | ![]() | 145,276 |
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