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2016 Swedish Golf Tour

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2016 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration26 February 2016 (2016-02-26) – 15 October 2016 (2016-10-15)
Number of official events19
Order of MeritDenmark Mark Haastrup
2015
2017

The 2016 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2016 Nordea Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 33rd 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.

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2016 season.[1][2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(SKr)
Winner[a] Main
tour[b]
28 Feb Lumine Lakes Open Spain €55,000 Sweden Björn Hellgren NGL
4 Mar Lumine Hills Open Spain €55,000 Finland Niclas Hellberg NGL
23 Apr Black Mountain Invitational Thailand 405,000 Sweden Malcolm Kokocinski (1)
29 Apr Grundfos Masters Germany €40,000 Denmark Oliver Suhr NGL
21 May Stora Hotellet Bryggan Fjällbacka Open Bohuslän 400,000 Sweden Per Längfors NGL
28 May Trummenäs Open Blekinge 350,000 Sweden Mikael Lindberg NGL
11 Jun Österlen PGA Open Skåne 400,000 Sweden Ola Johansson NGL
23 Jun Borre Open Norway €40,000 Norway Jarand Ekeland Arnøy NGL
2 Jul SM Match Uppland 400,000 Denmark Mark Haastrup NGL
9 Jul Kristianstad Åhus Open Skåne 600,000 Sweden Ola Johansson NGL
6 Aug Made in Denmark European Tour Qualifier Denmark DKr 300,000 Denmark Daniel Løkke NGL
13 Aug Isaberg Open Småland 400,000 Denmark Mark Haastrup NGL
20 Aug Norwegian Open Norway €50,000 Sweden Oscar Lengdén NGL
28 Aug Landeryd Masters Östergötland 400,000 Sweden Oskar Bergman NGL
17 Sep Star for Life Challenge Skåne 400,000 Denmark Mark Haastrup NGL
23 Sep Thisted Forsikring Championship Denmark DKr 300,000 Denmark Kasper Kjær Estrup NGL
1 Oct GolfUppsala Open Uppland 400,000 Sweden Niklas Lindström NGL
8 Oct Race to HimmerLand Denmark DKr 375,000 Sweden Alexander Wennstam NGL
15 Oct Tourfinal Vellinge Open Skåne 450,000 Denmark Mark Haastrup NGL

Order of Merit

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The Order of Merit was titled as the Nordea Tour Ranking and was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[3][4]

Position Player Points
1 Denmark Mark Haastrup 467,164
2 Sweden Alexander Wennstam 278,645
3 Sweden Oscar Lengdén 275,783
4 Sweden Ola Johansson 254,992
5 Sweden Niklas Lindström 222,279

See also

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Notes

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  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 Nordic Golf League schedule, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  2. ^ NGL − Nordic Golf League.

References

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  1. ^ "2016 Swedish Golf Tour" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Nordea Tour 2016". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 3. March 2016. p. 30. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  3. ^ "2016 Nordea Tour Ranking". Danish Golf Tour. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  4. ^ Damgaard, Peter (15 October 2016). "Mark Flindt Haastrup vandt sæsonfinalen i Sverige" [Mark Flindt Haastrup won the season finale in Sweden]. 19hul.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 October 2023. Haastrup vandt også Nordea Tour ranglisten, hvilket han allerede var sikker på inden sæsonfinalen. [Haastrup also won the Nordea Tour rankings, which he was already sure of before the season finale.]
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