2020 Swedish Golf Tour

The 2020 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 37th season of the Swedish Golf Tour.

2022 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration23 February 2020 (2020-02-23) – 9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)
Number of official events12[lower-alpha 1]
Order of MeritSweden Mikael Lindberg
2019
2021

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.

Qualifying School for the 2021 Swedish Golf Tour and Nordic Golf League season took place 30 September – 1 October 2020 over 36 holes at Barsebäck Golf & Country Club, Stockholm Golf Club and Kungsbacka Golf Club simultaneously.[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2020 season.[2][3][4][5][6]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
(SKr)
Winner[lower-alpha 2]Main
tour[lower-alpha 3]
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 AprElisefarm OpenSkåneCancelledNGL
18 JunGamle Fredrikstad OpenNorwayPostponedNGL
26 JunSand Golf Club OpenSmålandCancelledNGL
4 Jul Katrineholm Open Södermanland 430,000 Sweden Ludvig Åberg (a) (1)
9 JulKongsvinger OpenNorwayCancelledNGL
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 AugTimberwise Finnish OpenFinlandCancelledNGL
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 prize money won during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[7]

PositionPlayerPoints
1Sweden Mikael Lindberg434,903
2Denmark Marcus Helligkilde242,608
3Sweden Joakim Wikström200,503
4Sweden Ludvig Åberg (a)172,740
5Sweden Björn Hellgren146,980

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. "Re-ranking, categories 2021 and Q-school, Information Qualifying school 2021 (in Swedish)". Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. "Updated Golf Tour Schedule". Swedish Golf Federation. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. "Nordic Golf League Schedule". Nordic Golf League. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  4. "Covid-19 Update". Nordic Golf League. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. "MoreGolf MasterCard Tour, Spelschema 2020". Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  6. "Seger efter särspel på Visby GK" [Win after playoff at Visby GC]. Swedish Golf Federation. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  7. "MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking". ECCO Tour. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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