The PLM Open was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament that was played in
Sweden
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until 1990. Founded in 1983, it was a
European Tour
The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...
event from 1986, and in its final year it had a prize fund of £350,000, which was mid-range for a European Tour event at that time. In 1991, the tournament was merged with the
Scandinavian Enterprise Open
The Scandinavian Enterprise Open was a golf tournament on the European Tour that was played in Sweden until 1990, when it had a prize fund of £400,000, which was mid-range for the tour at that time.
In 1991, the tournament was merged with fell ...
, with the resultant tournament being called the
Scandinavian Masters
The Scandinavian Masters is an annual golf tournament on the European Tour played in Sweden. In 2020 the tournament became co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and rebranded as the Scandinavian Mixed, in which both male and female golfers ...
.
The PLM Open should not be confused with the
KLM Open
The Dutch Open is an annual golf tournament played in the Netherlands, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour was inaugurated in 1972.
History and sponsorship
Founded in 1912, the tournament began as the Dutch Open, be ...
, which was a sponsored name of the Dutch Open.
Winners
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Tour events
Swedish Golf Tour events
Golf tournaments in Sweden
Recurring sporting events established in 1983
Recurring events disestablished in 1990
Defunct sports competitions in Sweden
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