ECCO Tour Championship

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ECCO Tour Championship
Tournament information
Location Horsens, Denmark
Established2006
Course(s)Stensballegaard Golf
Par72
Length7,578 yards (6,929 m)
Tour(s) Challenge Tour
Nordic Golf League
Danish Golf Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund DKr  1,200,000
Month playedAugust
Final year2012
Tournament record score
Aggregate260 Iain Pyman (2007)
To par−20 as above
Final champion
Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Tadini
Location Map
Denmark physical map.svg
Icona golf.svg
Stensballegaard Golf
Location in Denmark

The ECCO Tour Championship was the most prestigious golf tournament on the Denmark-based Danish Golf Tour (titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons), being jointly sanctioned by Europe's second-tier Challenge Tour. It ran annually from 2006 to 2012. In 2010, it was held outside Denmark for the first time, when it was hosted at Green Eagle Golf Club in Winsen near Hamburg, Germany. [1]

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Winners

YearTours [lower-alpha 1] WinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upVenue
2012 CHA, DNK Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Tadini 276−12Playoff Flag of England.svg James Busby Stensballegaard
2011 CHA, DNK Flag of England.svg Daniel Denison 208 [lower-alpha 2] −81 stroke Flag of France.svg Charles-Édouard Russo Lübker
2010 CHA, DNK Flag of Denmark.svg Andreas Hartø (a)284−81 stroke Flag of Sweden.svg Oscar Florén Green Eagle
2009 CHA, NGL Flag of Portugal.svg José-Filipe Lima 211 [lower-alpha 2] −51 stroke Flag of Italy.svg Edoardo Molinari Holstebro
2008 CHA, NGL Flag of Finland.svg Antti Ahokas 271−171 stroke Flag of the Netherlands.svg Wil Besseling
Flag of Norway.svg Eirik Tage Johansen
Flag of Finland.svg Roope Kakko
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Taco Remkes 		Kokkedal
2007 CHA, NGL Flag of England.svg Iain Pyman 260−203 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus A. Carlsson
Flag of England.svg John E. Morgan 		Odense
2006 CHA, NGL Flag of England.svg James Heath 261−193 strokes Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Nørret Odense

Notes

  1. ↑ CHA − Challenge Tour; DNK − Danish Golf Tour; NGL − Nordic Golf League.
  2. 1 2 Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

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References

  1. ↑ "Tournament History". PGA European Tour . Retrieved 4 July 2010.


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