Tournament information | |
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Established | 2005 |
Tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
Prize fund | $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 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 | Points | Ref. |
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2007 | Kiran Matharu | 280 | [3] |
2006 | Laura Davies | 577.5 | [4] [5] [6] [7] |
2005 | Cecilia Ekelundh | 307 | [8] [9] [10] |
The winners were determined by an Order of Merit based on results in the four tournaments, calculated using a points-based system.
Pos. | Player | Tournaments | Tmts | Total | |||||||
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Sweden | Norway | Finland | Denmark | Money | Points | ||||||
1 | Cecilia Ekelundh | T25 – | N O T H E L D | T2 157 | 3 150 | 3 | 34,508 | 307 | |||
2 | Iben Tinning | T18 – | T16 4 | 1st 300 | 3 | 39,310 | 304 | ||||
3 | Lisa Holm Sorensen | T49 – | 1st 300 | T61 – | 4 | 33,020 | 300 | ||||
4 | Suzann Pettersen | 6 70 | T2 177 | • | 3 | 32,533 | 247 | ||||
5 | Lora Fairclough | T38 – | T12 27.5 | 2 275 | 3 | 27,398 | 227.5 |
Pos. | Player | Tournaments | Tmts | Total | |||||||
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Sweden | Norway | Finland | Denmark | Money | Points | ||||||
1 | Laura Davies | T5 80 | 1st 300 | T11 22.5 | T2 175 | 4 | 69,855 | 577.5 | |||
2 | Virginie Lagoutte | T34 – | T3 135 | 1st 300 | T12 17.5 | 4 | 49,550 | 452.5 | |||
3 | Karen Margrethe Juul | T23 – | T11 11 | T6 48 | 1st 300 | 4 | 44,195 | 359 | |||
4 | Gwladys Nocera | 4 120 | T11 11 | T3 135 | T8 40 | 4 | 46,942 | 306 | |||
5 | Annika Sörenstam | 1st 300 | • | • | • | 1 | 75,000 | 300 |
Pos. | Player | Tournaments | Tmts | Total | |||||||
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Sweden | Norway | Finland | Denmark | Money | Points | ||||||
1 | Kiran Matharu | T28 – | • | T4 105 | T2 175 | 3 | 32,145 | 280 | |||
2 | Lotta Wahlin | T60 – | T34 – | 3 150 | 4 120 | 4 | 28,090 | 270 | |||
3 | Johanna Westerberg | T58 – | T6 60 | 2 200 | T19 – | 4 | 31,263 | 260 | |||
4 | Kirsty Taylor | T39 – | • | T33 – | 2 200 | 3 | 22,738 | 175 | |||
5 | Diana Luna | T97 – | T3 135 | • | T10 25 | 3 | 15,884 | 160 |
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