Volvo Cross Country Challenge

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Volvo Cross Country Challenge
Tournament information
Established2005
Tour(s) Ladies European Tour
Prize fund$120,000
$1,000,000 (bonus)
Volvo XC70
Final year2007
Final champion
Flag of England.svg 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.

Contents

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 Volvo Cross Country Challenge and a brand new Volvo XC70 in 2007. [1]

Participation

To qualify, players had to participate in at least three out of four of the LET tournaments hosted in Nordic countries:

  1. Flag of Sweden.svg Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika
  2. Flag of Norway.svg SAS Masters
  3. Flag of Finland.svg Finnair Masters
  4. Flag of Denmark.svg Nykredit Masters

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]

Winners

YearWinnerRef.
2007 Flag of England.svg Kiran Matharu [3]
2006 Flag of England.svg Laura Davies [4] [5] [6] [7]
2005 Flag of Sweden.svg Cecilia Ekelundh [8] [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Kiran Matharu wins the Volvo Challenge Archived 2015-04-22 at archive.today , September 9th, 2007
  2. ↑ GolfToday. "LET and Volvo in new sponsorship deal".
  3. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Matharu wins Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  4. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Davies wins 2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  5. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  6. ↑ Ladies European Tour (23 August 2006). "Davies and Pettersen headline SAS Masters".
  7. ↑ Ladies European Tour (30 August 2006). "Davies heads strong field for Finnair Masters".
  8. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Ekelundh receives her Volvo XC70".
  9. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  10. ↑ "Ekelundh rullar mot toppen" [Ekelundh rolls to the top]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 10. October 2005. p. 113. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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