2020 Swedish Golf Tour

2020 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration23 February 2020 (2020-02-23) – 9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)
Number of official events12[a]
Most winsSweden Ludvig Åberg (2)
Order of MeritSweden Mikael Lindberg
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The 2020 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 37th 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 Nordic Golf League since 1999.

MoreGolf Mastercard title sponsorship

In March, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with MoreGolf Mastercard, being renamed as the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour.[1]

In-season changes

The 2020 schedule initially consisted of 26 tournaments, 16 of them, in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Spain, included in the 2020 schedule. After a four-month break and rescheduling, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 SGT schedule included 12 tournaments, two of them played in Spain in February and March, the remaining 10 in Sweden. Due to travel restrictions, four tournaments was taken away from the 2020 Nordic Golf League Order of Merit Golfbox Road to Europe, but was still counted on the 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour and still earned OWGR points.[2]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2020 season.[3]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(SKr)		 Winner[b] Main
tour[c]
25 Feb Lumine Hills Open Spain 550,000 Denmark Marcus Helligkilde NGL
1 Mar Lumine Lakes Open Spain 550,000 Sweden Mikael Lindberg NGL
30 Apr Elisefarm Open Skåne – Cancelled[4] NGL
18 Jun Gamle Fredrikstad Open Norway – Postponed NGL
26 Jun Sand Golf Club Open Småland – Cancelled[4] NGL
4 Jul Katrineholm Open Södermanland 430,000 Sweden Ludvig Åberg (a) (1)
9 Jul Kongsvinger Open Norway – Cancelled[4] NGL
16 Jul Barsebäck Resort Masters Skåne 350,000 Sweden Ludvig Åberg (a) (2)
24 Jul Stockholm Trophy Södermanland 380,000 Sweden Mikael Lindberg (1)
28 Jul SM Match Uppland 350,000 Sweden Martin Eriksson (1)
1 Aug PGA Championship Bråviken Open Östergötland 500,000 Sweden Björn Hellgren (3)
14 Aug Landeryd Masters Östergötland 400,000 Sweden Robin Petersson NGL
27 Aug V Sport Golf Challenge Skåne 350,000 Sweden Joakim Wikström NGL
29 Aug Timberwise Finnish Open Finland – Cancelled NGL
4 Sep
16 May 		TanumStrand Fjällbacka Open Bohuslän 420,000 Sweden Pelle Edberg NGL
24 Sep Visby Open Gotland 380,000 Sweden Joakim Wikström NGL
9 Oct Lindbytvätten Tour Final Öland 400,000 Denmark Lasse Jensen NGL

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was titled as the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking and was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[5]

Position Player Points
1 Sweden Mikael Lindberg 434,903
2 Denmark Marcus Helligkilde 242,608
3 Sweden Joakim Wikström 200,503
4 Sweden Ludvig Åberg (a) 172,740
5 Sweden Björn Hellgren 146,980

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A further five tournaments were scheduled but were either cancelled or postponed.
  2. ^ 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 Nordic Golf League schedule, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  3. ^ NGL − Nordic Golf League.

References

  1. ^ "MoreGolf Mastercard sponsrar den svenska herrtouren i golf" [MoreGolf Mastercard sponsors the Swedish Men's Tour in golf]. Hållbar sponsring (in Swedish). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Covid-19 update". Danish Golf Tour. 25 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Updated Golf Tour Schedule" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. ^ "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking". Danish Golf Tour. Retrieved 26 October 2022.