The Västerås Open was a

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

tournament on the

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that featured on the

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1990–1994. It was played in

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. The Kentab Open was first played as an amateur tournament at Västerås GC in 1978, and it was added to the

in 1986. Starting in 1998 the tournament began rotating between Västerås GC, Frösåker G&CC, Ängsö GC and Fullerö GC. In 2007

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became the main sponsor and it was rebranded the ''Västerås Mälarstaden Open''. A similarly named event, the Kentab/RBG Open, sponsored name of the 1996

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, was played at Frösåker G&CC and featured on the 1996 Challenge Tour. Vilhelm Forsbrand, Joakim Rask and

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have all won the tournament twice, Hanson while still an amateur.

Winners

Notes

References

External links

Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasteras Open Former Challenge Tour events Swedish Golf Tour events Nordic Golf League events Golf tournaments in Sweden 1978 establishments in Sweden 20th-century establishments in Västmanland County