2003 Swedish Golf Tour

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2003 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration12 May 2003 (2003-05-12) – 10 October 2003 (2003-10-10)
Number of official events12
Order of MeritSweden Leif Westerberg
2002
2004

The 2003 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2003 Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 20th 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[edit]

The following table lists official events during the 2003 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(SKr)
Winner[a] Main
tour[b]
13 May Telia Grand Opening Västergötland 100,000 Sweden Pelle Edberg NGL
18 May Gambro Open Skåne 200,000 Sweden Johan Möller (a) NGL
25 May Kinnaborg Open Västergötland 200,000 Sweden Jimmy Kawalec NGL
15 Jun Husqvarna Open Småland 300,000 Sweden Hampus von Post NGL
28 Jun SM Match Uppland 200,000 Sweden Andreaz Lindberg NGL
4 Jul St Ibb Open Skåne 230,000 Sweden Åke Nilsson NGL
14 Aug Sundbyholm Open Södermanland 200,000 Sweden Pelle Edberg NGL
22 Aug Swedish International Uppland 200,000 Finland Ari Savolainen (a) NGL
31 Aug Skandia PGA Open Skåne 1,000,000 South Africa Titch Moore CHA
6 Sep Västerås Open Västmanland 250,000 Sweden Leif Westerberg NGL
21 Sep Telia Grand Prix Skåne 1,200,000 Scotland Euan Little CHA
10 Oct Telia Tourkval Kävlinge Skåne n/a Sweden Johan Axgren (1)

Order of Merit[edit]

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[2]

Position Player Points
1 Sweden Leif Westerberg 1,035
2 Sweden Pelle Edberg 975
3 Sweden Eric Carlberg 964
4 Sweden Fredrik Henge 932
5 Sweden Christian Nilsson 782

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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 or Challenge Tour schedules, details of these wins are displayed there instead.
  2. ^ CHA − Challenge Tour; NGL − Nordic Golf League.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). "Swedish Golf Tour/Telia Tour". Golf - Den Stora Sporten (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 277–279. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Telia Ranking 2003". golfdata.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 3 December 2003. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

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