1996 Swedish Golf Tour

1996 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration16 May 1996 (1996-05-16) – 28 September 1996 (1996-09-28)
Number of official events14
Order of MeritSweden Adam Mednick
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The 1996 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 1996 Telia Infomedia Golf Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th 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 Challenge Tour between 1989 and 1998.

Telia title sponsorship

In December 1995, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Telia Company, being renamed as the Telia Infomedia Golf Tour.[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1996 season.[2][3]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(SKr)		 Winner[a] Main
tour[b]
18 May Motoman Robotics Open Småland 100,000 Sweden Daniel Olsson (1)
25 May Helsingborg Golf Open Skåne 125,000 Sweden Peter Henriksson (1)
2 Jun SIAB Open Skåne £35,000 Finland Kalle Väinölä CHA
9 Jun Himmerland Open Denmark £35,000 Sweden Niklas Diethelm CHA
16 Jun Västerås Open Västmanland 150,000 Sweden Johan Axgren (1)
23 Jun Team Erhverv Danish Open Denmark £70,000 Sweden Robert Jonsson CHA
7 Jul Uno-X Skövde Open Västergötland 100,000 Sweden Martin Erlandsson (1)
14 Jul Volvo Finnish Open Finland £35,000 Sweden Björn Bäck CHA
18 Aug Gefle Open Gästrikland 175,000 Sweden Chris Hanell (1)
25 Aug Toyota Danish PGA Championship Denmark £40,000 Sweden Adam Mednick CHA
1 Sep Kentab/RBG Open Västmanland £40,000 Sweden Max Anglert CHA
8 Sep SM Match Play Småland £50,000 Sweden Adam Mednick CHA
14 Sep Borås Open Västergötland 150,000 Sweden Kristofer Svensson (1)
28 Sep Telia InfoMedia Grand Prix Skåne 1,000,000 England Scott Watson CHA

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[4]

Position Player Points
1 Sweden Adam Mednick 2,325
2 Sweden Johan Axgren 1,241
3 Sweden Robert Jonsson 1,142
4 Sweden Patrik Gottfridsson 963
5 Sweden Björn Bäck 927

See also

Notes

  1. ^ 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 Challenge Tour schedules, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  2. ^ CHA − Challenge Tour.

References

  1. ^ "Nytt slutspel värt miljone" [New playoff worth millions]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 12. December 1995. p. 22. Retrieved 14 October 2023. Därefter gällde det att finna en långsiktig samarbetspartner, villig att helhjärtat satsa på SGT. Det var naturligt att valet föll på Telia-koncernen... [Next it was a matter of finding a long-term partner, willing to invest wholeheartedly in SGT. It was natural that the choice fell on the Telia Group...]
  2. ^ "Tävlingsarrangörerna 1996" [Competition organisation 1996]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. May 1996. p. 90. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  3. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). "Swedish Golf Tour/Telia Tour". Golf - Den Stora Sporten (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 277–279. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Telia InfoMedia Ranking 1996". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 11. November 1996. p. 91. Retrieved 14 October 2023.