Flommen Golf Club is a links golf club located in

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. It has hosted the PLM Open on the European Tour.

History

The club was established in 1935 which makes it the country's 19th oldest golf club. It is located on Sweden's southwestern tip, along the

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, adjacent to

Falsterbo Golf Club Falsterbo Golf Club is a Links (golf), links golf club located in Falsterbo, Skåne County in Sweden. It has hosted the PLM Open on the European Tour. History Falsterbo was founded in 1909 and is Sweden's third oldest golf club. In 1911 it was mo ...

and near Ljunghusen Golf Club. Situated in the Flommen Nature Preserve amongst shallow lagoons and high dunes, it is one of few links courses in the country. The club has hosted the PLM Open on the European Tour. New Zealand's Frank Nobilo recorded his first European Tour victory at the 1988 PLM Open, while eventual world number one

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made his European Tour debut, and then-rookie Colin Montgomerie recorded his first top-3 European Tour finish at the same tournament.

Tournaments hosted

European Tour

* PLM Open –

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Flommen Open

Flommen head pro Gunnar Mueller was the initiator to the 1993 foundation of the Flommen Open professional tournament, which was run for ten years until 2002.

Winners

*1993 Fredrik Andersson *1994 Christian Härdin *1995 ''Cancelled due to flooding'' *1996 Johan Girdo *1997

Fredrik Henge Fredrik Henge (born 30 December 1974) is a Swedish professional golfer. Henge was born in Lund and turned professional in 1997. He has earned his place on the top level European Tour several times, the first via qualifying school at the end of 1 ...

*1998

Ville Lemon ''Ville'' or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin ''

villa rustica

'') an ...

*1999 Niklas Bruzelius *2000

Kalle Brink Karl Henrik Brink (born 12 August 1975) is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the Challenge Tour. Brink was born in Helsingborg, Sweden. His sister, Maria, is also a professional golfer, who has competed on the ...

*2001

Klas Eriksson Klas Eriksson (born 30 July 1971) is a Sweden, Swedish professional golfer. Eriksson was born in Växjö and turned professional in 1991 having won the European Amateur and the French Amateur Stoke Play Championship the previous year. He finished ...

*2002 Per Nyman

References

External links

*{{Official, http://www.flommensgk.se Golf clubs and courses in Sweden Golf clubs and courses in the Øresund Region