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.
| Duration | 23 February 2020 – 9 October 2020 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 12[lower-alpha 1] |
| Most wins |  Ludvig Åberg (2) |
| Order of Merit | Mikael Lindberg |
← 2019 2021 → | |
MoreGolf Mastercard title sponsorship
In March, it was announced that the tour had signed a sponsor title 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[lower-alpha 2] | Main tour[lower-alpha 3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb | Lumine Hills Open | Spain | 550,000 |  Marcus Helligkilde |
NGL |
| 1 Mar | Lumine Lakes Open | Spain | 550,000 | Mikael Lindberg |
NGL |
| Elisefarm Open | Skåne | – | Cancelled | NGL | |
| Gamle Fredrikstad Open | Norway | – | Postponed | NGL | |
| Sand Golf Club Open | Småland | – | Cancelled | NGL | |
| 4 Jul | Katrineholm Open | Södermanland | 430,000 | Ludvig Åberg (a) (1) |
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| Kongsvinger Open | Norway | – | Cancelled | NGL | |
| 16 Jul | Barsebäck Resort Masters | Skåne | 350,000 | Ludvig Åberg (a) (2) |
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| 24 Jul | Stockholm Trophy | Södermanland | 380,000 | Mikael Lindberg (1) |
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| 28 Jul | SM Match | Uppland | 350,000 | Martin Eriksson (1) |
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| 1 Aug | PGA Championship Bråviken Open | Östergötland | 500,000 | Björn Hellgren (3) |
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| 14 Aug | Landeryd Masters | Östergötland | 400,000 | Robin Petersson |
NGL |
| 27 Aug | V Sport Golf Challenge | Skåne | 350,000 | Joakim Wikström |
NGL |
| Timberwise Finnish Open | Finland | – | Cancelled | NGL | |
| 4 Sep |
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
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.[4]
| 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 |
Notes
- A further five tournaments were scheduled but were either cancelled or postponed.
- 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.
- NGL − Nordic Golf League.
References
- "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.
- "Covid-19 update". Danish Golf Tour. 25 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- "2020 MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Ranking". Danish Golf Tour. Retrieved 26 October 2022.