Danish Golf Tour

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Danish Golf Tour
FormerlyScanplan Tour
SportGolf
Founded2002
FounderDan Stage
PGA of Denmark
First season2003
CountriesBased in Denmark[a]
Most titlesTournament wins:
Sweden Jens Dantorp (4)
Sweden Jacob Glennemo (4)
Related
competitions
Finnish Tour
Nordic Golf League
Norwegian Golf Tour
Swedish Golf Tour
Official websitehttps://www.eccotour.org/

The Danish Golf Tour, currently titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons, is a developmental

European Tour
.

History

The tour was founded in 2002 as a joint venture by Dan Stage and the PGA of Denmark. The aim of the tour being to provide a new generation of golfers with optimal conditions for developing their game.[1] The inaugural season was in 2003 where the tour hosted ten tournaments, culminating in a total prize fund of DKr 1,500,000.[citation needed]

The tour originally signed a three-year agreement in 2002 with Danish-based shoe manufacturer ECCO who would be the inaugural title sponsor of the tour for the first three seasons.[1] The agreement was ceased in 2006 and Scanplan Ejendomme became the new title sponsor of the tour. This deal lasted until 2007, when ECCO was reinstated as the title sponsor for the 2008 season onwards.[2]

The Order of Merit has commonly been titled as the Race to HimmerLand, with the final event on the schedule in recent seasons being played at the HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort (also host to the

European Tour).[3][4]

Seasons

Order of Merit winners

Year Winner Points
2023
No Order of Merit awarded
2022
Denmark Frederik Birkelund 225,727
2021
Denmark Peter Launer Bæk 178,563
2020
Denmark Marcus Helligkilde 123,066
2019
Norway Elias Bertheussen 146,909
2018
Norway Aksel Olsen 222,141
2017
Iceland Axel Bóasson 171,213
Year Winner Prize money (DKr)
2016
Finland Oliver Lindell 253,591
2015
Finland Tapio Pulkkanen 282,813
2014
Sweden Jacob Glennemo 280,040
2013
Denmark Jeff Winther 197,385
2012
Denmark Lucas Bjerregaard 204,438
2011
Sweden Jens Dantorp 290,136
2010
Denmark Thomas Nørret 182,119
2009
Portugal José-Filipe Lima 216,000
2008
Norway Eirik Tage Johansen 191,432
Year Winner Points
2007
Sweden Andreas Högberg 13,390
2006
Denmark Christoffer Lange 1,484
2005
Sweden Raimo Sjöberg 1,153
2004
Sweden Peter Viktor 1,448
2003
Norway Øyvind Rojahn 1,295

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Schedules have also included events in Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

References

  1. ^ a b "About the tour". Scanplan Tour. Archived from the original on 3 May 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ^ "ECCO Tour endnu stærkere i 2008" (in Danish). PGA of Denmark. 25 January 2008. Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ "John Axelsen vinder Race to Himmerland". sn.dk (in Danish). 7 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Made in Denmark joins the European Tour in 2014". European Tour. 14 May 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2022.

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