The 2007 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 22nd season of the
Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in
Sweden
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and
Finland
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.
Amateur
Caroline Hedwall
Caroline Ingrid Hedwall (born 13 May 1989) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA Tour. In 2013 she became the first player to win five matches in a single Solheim Cup event. As an amateur she w ...
won four events, and Norway's
Marianne Skarpnord
Marianne Skarpnord (born 11 February 1986) is a Norwegian professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour.
Amateur career
As a junior, Skarpnord was considered one of the biggest talents in Norwegian golf. In 2003, she won the Girls Am ...
won the
Order of Merit
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. Through her win, Skarpnord, along with Order of Merit runner-up
Florence Lüscher
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from Switzerland, secured cards for the
2008 Ladies European Tour
The 2008 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2008. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).
The tour featur ...
.
The tour enjoyed an international field and, in all, players of six different nationalities won titles, and a further four nationalities were runner-ups.
Schedule
The season consisted of 12 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland.
Order of Merit
An official feeder tour for the
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ...
, the top two finishers in the Order of Merit earned LET cards for
2008
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.
See also
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2007 Swedish Golf Tour
The 2007 Swedish Golf Tour, titled as the 2007 Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Sweden since it was formed in 1984, with most tournaments being incorporated int ...
(men's tour)
References
External links
Official homepage of the Swedish Golf Tour
{{Swedish Golf Tour (women) seasons
Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The Swedish Golf Tour (SGT) for women, from 2021 synonymous with the Nordic Golf Tour (NGT) and from 2022 branded the Ahlsell Nordic Golf Tour, is a professional golf tour operated in cooperation by the golf federations in Denmark and Norway and ...