Nordic Golf League

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Nordic Golf League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Nordic Golf League
SportGolf
Founded1999
First season1999
CountriesBased in Scandinavia[a]
Most titlesTournament wins:
Sweden Jens Dantorp (8)
Sweden Åke Nilsson (8)
Finland Tapio Pulkkanen (8)
Sweden Joakim Rask (8)
Related
competitions
Danish Golf Tour
Finnish Tour
Norwegian Golf Tour
Swedish Golf Tour

The Nordic Golf League is one of the third-tier men's professional golf tours, recognised by the European Tour, also known as the Satellite Tours. The top five players on the Order of Merit at the end of each season earn status to play on the second tier Challenge Tour for the following season.[1]

The tour is based in Scandinavia, and incorporates tournaments from the national tours of Denmark (Danish Golf Tour, currently titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons), Finland (Finnish Tour) and Sweden (Swedish Golf Tour, currently titled as the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour for sponsorship reasons). Formerly, the Nordic Golf League incorporated tournaments from the now defunct Norwegian Golf Tour.

Beginning in July 2015, Nordic Golf League tournaments carry Official World Golf Ranking points.[2]

Notable alumni, who went on to win on the European Tour include Lucas Bjerregaard, Alexander Björk, Kristoffer Broberg, Rikard Karlberg, Mikko Korhonen, Morten Ørum Madsen, Christian Nilsson, and Thorbjørn Olesen.

Order of Merit winners[edit]

Year Winner Points
2023 Sweden Björn Åkesson 61,884
2022 Denmark John Axelsen 53,303
2021 Sweden Christopher Feldborg Nielsen 43,578
2020 Sweden Mikael Lindberg 32,473
2019 Denmark Niklas Nørgaard 47,891
2018 Norway Aksel Olsen 48,181
2017 Iceland Axel Bóasson 45,260
2016 Denmark Mark Haastrup 54,457
2015 Finland Tapio Pulkkanen 62,652
2014 Sweden Jacob Glennemo 64,988
2013 Sweden Jesper Kennegård 46,591
2012 Denmark Lucas Bjerregaard 52,260
2011 Sweden Jens Dantorp 61,167
2010 Sweden Wilhelm Schauman 30,869
2009 Denmark Lasse Jensen 32,396
2008 Sweden Petter Bocian 24,510
2007 Sweden Rikard Karlberg 25,005
2006 Sweden Pontus Ericsson 2,207
2005 Norway Morten Hagen 2,509
2004 Sweden Peter Malmgren 1,974
2003 Norway Øyvind Rojahn 1,820
2002 Sweden Joakim Kristiansson 1,990
2001 Denmark Mads Vibe-Hastrup 2,159
2000 Norway Morten Orveland 2,147
1999 Sweden Patrik Gottfridson 28,516

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Schedules have also included events in Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Spain.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Third Level Tours Relaunched as the Satellite Tours". 21 April 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  2. ^ "OWGR Board Announce Inclusion of New Tours". Official World Golf Ranking. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2023. Each Tour will enter the OWGR system with a minimum level of 4 first place points for 54 hole tournaments and 6 first place points for 72 hole tournaments. Inclusion will commence with the tournaments to be played during OWGR Week 30 – Week ending Sunday 26th July 2015.

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