Danish Golf Tour

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Danish Golf Tour
FormerlyScanplan Tour
Sport Golf
Founded2002
FounderDan Stage
PGA of Denmark
First season2003
CountriesBased in Denmark [lower-alpha 1]
Most titlesTournament wins:
Flag of Sweden.svg Jens Dantorp (4)
Flag of Sweden.svg Jacob Glennemo (4)
Related
competitions		 Finnish Tour
Nordic Golf League
Norwegian Golf Tour
Swedish Golf Tour
Official website https://www.eccotour.org/

The Danish Golf Tour, currently titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons, is a developmental professional golf tour based in Denmark. Similar to the Swedish Golf Tour, most events on the Danish Golf Tour schedule are incorporated into the Nordic Golf League, one of the third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.

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History

The tour was founded in 2002 as a joint venture by Dan Stage and the PGA of Denmark. The aim of the tour being to provide a new generation of golfers with optimal conditions for developing their game. [1] The inaugural season was in 2003 where the tour hosted ten tournaments, culminating in a total prize fund of DKr  1,500,000.[ citation needed ]

The tour originally signed a three-year agreement in 2002 with Danish-based shoe manufacturer ECCO who would be the inaugural title sponsor of the tour for the first three seasons. [1] The agreement was ceased in 2006 and Scanplan Ejendomme became the new title sponsor of the tour. This deal lasted until 2007, when ECCO was reinstated as the title sponsor for the 2008 season onwards. [2]

The Order of Merit has commonly been titled as the Race to HimmerLand, with the final event on the schedule in recent seasons being played at the HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort (also host to the Made in HimmerLand event on the European Tour). [3] [4]

Seasons

Order of Merit winners

YearWinnerPoints
2023 No Order of Merit awarded
2022 Flag of Denmark.svg Frederik Birkelund 225,727
2021 Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Launer Bæk 178,563
2020 Flag of Denmark.svg Marcus Helligkilde 123,066
2019 Flag of Norway.svg Elias Bertheussen 146,909
2018 Flag of Norway.svg Aksel Olsen 222,141
2017 Flag of Iceland.svg Axel Bóasson 171,213
YearWinnerPrize money (DKr)
2016 Flag of Finland.svg Oliver Lindell 253,591
2015 Flag of Finland.svg Tapio Pulkkanen 282,813
2014 Flag of Sweden.svg Jacob Glennemo 280,040
2013 Flag of Denmark.svg Jeff Winther 197,385
2012 Flag of Denmark.svg Lucas Bjerregaard 204,438
2011 Flag of Sweden.svg Jens Dantorp 290,136
2010 Flag of Denmark.svg Thomas Nørret 182,119
2009 Flag of Portugal.svg José-Filipe Lima 216,000
2008 Flag of Norway.svg Eirik Tage Johansen 191,432
YearWinnerPoints
2007 Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Högberg 13,390
2006 Flag of Denmark.svg Christoffer Lange 1,484
2005 Flag of Sweden.svg Raimo Sjöberg 1,153
2004 Flag of Sweden.svg Peter Viktor 1,448
2003 Flag of Norway.svg Øyvind Rojahn 1,295

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Schedules have also included events in Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

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This page lists all Danish Golf Tour seasons from its inaugural season in 2003.

References

  1. 1 2 "About the tour". Scanplan Tour. Archived from the original on 3 May 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "ECCO Tour endnu stærkere i 2008" (in Danish). PGA of Denmark. 25 January 2008. Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "John Axelsen vinder Race to Himmerland". sn.dk (in Danish). 7 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Made in Denmark joins the European Tour in 2014". European Tour. 14 May 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
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