The Flumserberg Ladies Open is a women's professional
golf
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tournament in the
LET Access Series
The LET Access Series (LETAS) is a professional golf tour for women and the official development tour to the Ladies European Tour.
Launched in 2010, the LET Access Series provides players with an opportunity to compete and progress on to the LET ...
, held since 2014 at Gams-Werdenberg Golf Club in
St. Gallen,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
Originally the tournament was named after its main sponsor, the Association Suisse des Golfeurs Indépendants (ASGI). After three seasons as the successor sponsor,
VP Bank
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stepped up to sponsor 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 ...
event
VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open, and the tournament was renamed after
Flumserberg
Flumserberg is a resort area in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of St. Gallen. It is composed of several villages at elevations between above sea level. The resort sits on a terrace overlooking the Walensee, above Flums in the Sarganserland ...
, the nearby
Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (german: Schweizer Alpen, french: Alpes suisses, it, Alpi svizzere, rm, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss ...
resort area.
Format
The tournament is played in 54-hole
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the ...
format. In 2023, the tournament's 10-year anniversary, the format changed to "Mätzler Mix", with 36 hole stroke play over Friday and Saturday, followed by three rounds of 9 hole match play on Sunday. The top 48 players advanced to the first match play, where the top 24 advanced to the second round, and the top 3 played in the third round, the final.
Home player
Elena Moosmann was the stroke play medalist and the third participant in the final alongside Olsen and Nielsen.
Winners
See also
*
Ladies Swiss Open
The Ladies Swiss Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that is held in Switzerland. It was first played in 1996 and 1997, the first LET event in Switzerland since the Ladies Swiss Classic (1988–1990). It wa ...
– Switzerland's
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 ...
event
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://letaccess.com/
LET Access Series events
Golf tournaments in Switzerland