2002 Swedish Golf Tour

2002 Swedish Golf Tour season
Duration14 May 2002 (2002-05-14) – 22 September 2002 (2002-09-22)
Number of official events14
Order of MeritSweden Joakim Kristiansson
2001
2003

The 2002 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2002 Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 19th 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 2002 season.[1][2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(SKr)
Winner[a] Main
tour[b]
15 May Telia Grand Opening Västergötland 100,000 Sweden Johan Edfors NGL
26 May Kinnaborg Open Västergötland 175,000 Sweden Joakim Kristiansson NGL
1 Jun St Ibb Open Skåne 230,000 Sweden Fredrik Orest NGL
16 Jun Husqvarna Open Småland 300,000 Sweden Hans Edberg NGL
30 Jun SM Match Uppland 300,000 Sweden Fredrik Orest NGL
14 Jul Sundbyholm Open Södermanland 250,000 Sweden Max Anglert NGL
26 Jul Gibson Scandinavia Brollsta Open Uppland 175,000 Sweden Marcus Norgren NGL
8 Aug TietoEnator Open Värmland 175,000 Sweden Joakim Kristiansson NGL
17 Aug Gula Sidorna Open Uppland 250,000 Sweden Hampus von Post NGL
25 Aug Skandia PGA Open Halland €95,000 France Thomas Bescancenez CHA
30 Aug match.golf.se Småland 200,000 Sweden Joakim Kristiansson NGL
7 Sep Västerås Open Västmanland 250,000 Sweden Jonas Wåhlstedt NGL
15 Sep Telia Grand Prix Skåne 1,100,000 England Matthew Blackey CHA
22 Sep St Arild Open Skåne 175,000 Sweden Martin Erlandsson NGL

Order of Merit

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The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[3]

Position Player Points
1 Sweden Joakim Kristiansson 1,759
2 Sweden Fredrik Orest 1,653
3 Sweden Markus Westerberg 1,095
4 Sweden Peter Gustafsson 983
5 Sweden Jonas Wåhlstedt 933

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

References

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  1. ^ "Telia Tour 2002". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. May 2002. p. 255. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Telia Ranking 2002". golfdata.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 October 2002. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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