The 2009 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the SAS Masters Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in

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and

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. 2009 was the second and final season with

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(SAS) as main sponsor, as the airline ran into financial difficulties due to the

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. Purses were reduced and the

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event

Göteborg Masters The Göteborg Masters was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that took place in Sweden. The tournament was first played 2008 and meant to be a recurring annual event, but the 2009 tournament was cancelled due to fi ...

, where 25 places were reserved for players of the tour, was cancelled.

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, Hanna-Leena Ronkainen and

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all won two events, and Börjeskog won the

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Schedule

The season consisted of 14 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland, and one was a

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event.

Order of Merit

An official feeder tour for the

, the top two finishers in the Order of Merit earned LET cards for

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References

External links

Official homepage of the Swedish Golf Tour
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Schedule

Order of Merit

See also

References

External links