The Volvo Cross Country Challenge was a women's professional
golf series on 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 ...
. It was a separate dedicated yearly order of merit for events in the Nordic region and held each year from 2005 to 2007.
The winner of the challenge received a
Volvo car and prize money. The 18-year-old
Kiran Matharu
Kiran Matharu (born 27 February 1989) is a female English professional golfer currently playing on the Ladies European Tour.
Amateur career
Matharu was a member of the Faldo Series development programme and 2004 and 2005 Faldo Series Girls' C ...
from
Leeds,
England, had yet to learn to drive when she won the Volvo Cross Country Challenge and a brand new
Volvo XC70
The Volvo V70 is an executive car manufactured and marketed by Volvo Cars from 1996 to 2016 across three generations.
The name ''V70'' combines the letter ''V'', standing for ''versatility'', and ''70'', denoting relative platform size (i.e., a ...
in 2007.
Participation
To qualify, players had to participate in at least three out of four of the LET tournaments hosted in
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...
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Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika
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SAS 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 ...
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Finnair Masters
The Ladies Finnish Masters was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Helsinki, Finland, between 2005 and 2011. In 2006 Finnair, the country's largest airline, became title sponsor and it changed name to the Fi ...
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Nykredit Masters
The Danish Ladies Masters, known for sponsorship reason as the Nykredit Masters, was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that took place in Denmark.
The tournament was first played in 2005 and the final edition was h ...
Prize money collected in these tournaments were added up in a "Volvo XC Challenge Order-of-Merit". The top ten players on this Order-of-Merit shared a prize fund of
$120,000.
In addition, players could get $1,000,000 bonus by winning all four of the above tournaments in one season.
Winners
References
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Former Ladies European Tour events
Recurring sporting events established in 2005
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2007