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, 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.

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
2019
2021

MoreGolf Mastercard title sponsorship

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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

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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

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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   Marcus Helligkilde NGL
1 Mar Lumine Lakes Open Spain 550,000   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   Ludvig Åberg (a) (1)
9 Jul Kongsvinger Open Norway Cancelled[4] NGL
16 Jul Barsebäck Resort Masters Skåne 350,000   Ludvig Åberg (a) (2)
24 Jul Stockholm Trophy Södermanland 380,000   Mikael Lindberg (1)
28 Jul SM Match Uppland 350,000   Martin Eriksson (1)
1 Aug PGA Championship Bråviken Open Östergötland 500,000   Björn Hellgren (3)
14 Aug Landeryd Masters Östergötland 400,000   Robin Petersson NGL
27 Aug V Sport Golf Challenge Skåne 350,000   Joakim Wikström NGL
29 Aug Timberwise Finnish Open Finland Cancelled NGL
4 Sep
16 May
TanumStrand Fjällbacka Open Bohuslän 420,000   Pelle Edberg NGL
24 Sep Visby Open Gotland 380,000   Joakim Wikström NGL
9 Oct Lindbytvätten Tour Final Öland 400,000   Lasse Jensen NGL

Order of Merit

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

See also

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Notes

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  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

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  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.
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