The Swedish Golf Federation ( sv, Svenska Golfförbundet, SGF) is the

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for the

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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 ...

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, founded in 1904. The federation is responsible for administering the

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, as laid down by

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, at the national level. It organizes tournaments, manages the national teams, and promotes the game. As of 2022, the federation organized 448 golf clubs and 505,577 individual members with 536 203 memberships, 74.4% male and 25.6% female. This makes it the third largest sports federation in Sweden in terms of active members, behind

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and

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in first and second and place. SGF is a member of the

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(EGA). Thanks to a high national participation rate of almost 5%, SGF is EGA's third largest national member behind

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and

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(661,805 and 640,181 members respectively as of 2016).

References

External links

sgf.golf.se
official site {{Authority control

Golf associations

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 ...

Golf in Sweden 1904 establishments in Sweden Sports organizations established in 1904

See also

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