2020 Swedish Golf Tour

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2020 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration23 February 2020 (2020-02-23) – 9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)
Number of official events12 [lower-alpha 1]
Most wins Flag of Sweden.svg Ludvig Åberg (2)
Order of Merit Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Lindberg
2019
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.

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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)
Winner [lower-alpha 2] Main
tour [lower-alpha 3]
25 FebLumine Hills OpenSpain550,000 Flag of Denmark.svg Marcus Helligkilde NGL
1 MarLumine Lakes OpenSpain550,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Lindberg NGL
30 AprElisefarm OpenSkåneCancelled NGL
18 JunGamle Fredrikstad OpenNorwayPostponed NGL
26 JunSand Golf Club OpenSmålandCancelled NGL
4 Jul Katrineholm Open Södermanland430,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Ludvig Åberg (a) (1)
9 JulKongsvinger OpenNorwayCancelled NGL
16 JulBarsebäck Resort MastersSkåne350,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Ludvig Åberg (a) (2)
24 JulStockholm TrophySödermanland380,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Lindberg (1)
28 Jul SM Match Uppland350,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Martin Eriksson (1)
1 Aug PGA Championship Bråviken Open Östergötland500,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Hellgren (3)
14 AugLanderyd MastersÖstergötland400,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Robin Petersson NGL
27 AugV Sport Golf ChallengeSkåne350,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Joakim Wikström NGL
29 Aug Timberwise Finnish Open FinlandCancelled NGL
4 Sep
16 May
TanumStrand Fjällbacka OpenBohuslän420,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Pelle Edberg NGL
24 SepVisby OpenGotland380,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Joakim Wikström NGL
9 Oct Lindbytvätten Tour Final Öland400,000 Flag of Denmark.svg Lasse Jensen NGL

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 Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Lindberg 434,903
2 Flag of Denmark.svg Marcus Helligkilde 242,608
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Joakim Wikström 200,503
4 Flag of Sweden.svg Ludvig Åberg (a)172,740
5 Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Hellgren 146,980

See also

Notes

  1. A further five tournaments were scheduled but were either cancelled or postponed.
  2. 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 Nordic Golf League schedule, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  3. NGL − Nordic Golf League.

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References

  1. "MoreGolf Mastercard sponsrar den svenska herrtouren i golf" [MoreGolf Mastercard sponsors the Swedish Men's Tour in golf]. Hållbar sponsring (in Swedish). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  2. "Covid-19 update". Danish Golf Tour. 25 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  4. "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking". Danish Golf Tour. Retrieved 26 October 2022.