The Swedish Golf Tour for women, since 2022 known as the Ahlsell Nordic Golf Tour for sponsorship reasons, is a professional golf tour for women held in Sweden and neighboring countries since 1986.

Before the establishment of the Ladies European Tour (LET) development tour, LET Access Series (LETAS) in 2010, the tour was the first official feeder tour for the LET. Starting in 2012 selected tournaments have been incorporated in the LETAS schedule, and since 2021, all scheduled tournaments.

The organization that runs the tour operate a corresponding men's Swedish Golf Tour, founded in 1984. The operating company, Svenska Golftourerna AB, was founded in 1988 jointly by the PGA of Sweden and the Swedish Golf Federation (SGF), to organize the two Swedish Golf Tours for men and women. Its first chairperson was Ola Öqvist. In 2018, the SGF became the sole owner and operator.

History At the beginning of 1979, Kärstin Ehrnlund became the first Swedish female tournament professional. The following year, Ehrnlund became the first Swedish winner on an international professional golf tour, when she won on the Ladies European Tour (LET) (at the time named the WPGA Tour) and by this showed the possibility for talented Swedish female golfers to turn playing professionals.

The first professional tournament for women held in Sweden and also the first LET tournament in Sweden, was an invitational tournament named the Volvo International taking place at Albatross Golf Club in Gothenburg in 1980 and again in 1981.

At the annual meeting of the Swedish Golf Federation in March 1983, "open golf" was introduced, which meant that, from next year both amateurs and professionals were allowed to enter all domestic competitions, international amateur tournaments excluded. Non-PGA members with a licence, as well as PGA members, were allowed to receive prize money. The new and internationally unique rules, made it possible to transform the traditionally most important amateur tournaments in the country to professional tournaments, attractive to sponsors and players.

The next Ladies European Tour tournament held in Sweden, took place at Mölle Golf Club in Mölle in 1984 and was named the Höganäs Ladies Open.

The women's Swedish Golf Tour, designed to help Swedish golfers to reach the standard of play needed to qualify for the LET, was established in 1986, two years after the men's tour in the country. The women's tour consisted the first year of seven tournaments, two of them co-sanctioned with the Ladies' European Tour. Liselotte Neumann was the first Order-of-Merit winner, thanks to second-place finishes in both of the two co-sanctioned events.

Official Feeder Tour to LET In 2005, the tour became the first official feeder tour for the LET, with the two leading non-exempt players from the ranking gaining LET cards for the following season, and the remainder of the top ten exempted into the final stage of the LET Qualifying School.

Women's European Satellite Tour The Swedish and Spanish (known as the Banesto Tour at the time) tours did not initially feature their events on the LET Access Series which launched in 2010. Instead they launched their own regional development tour in 2011, which featured four events from each country, named the Women's European Satellite Tour (WEST). In 2012, the tour was folded into LETAS.

Nordic Golf Tour For 2020, in cooperation between the Golf Federations of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the Ladies' Nordic Golf Tour (NGT) was introduced, with its Order-of merit ranking named Road to Creekhouse Ladies Open, including eight tournaments in three countries, six of them to be co-sanctioned by LETAS. This meant that the women's SGT remained, but on the level below the NGT.

However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the events outside Sweden were cancelled and the remaining Swedish events were removed from the 2020 LET Access Series (LETAS) schedule. Two of the five scheduled tournaments to be held in Sweden went ahead, but with a reduced purse.

From 2021, the Swedish Golf Tour was included in and synonymous with the Nordic Golf Tour, and the Nordic cooperation was abandoned except for an event in Denmark which remained on the schedule until 2024.

Sponsorship The tour was named the Swedish Golf Tour 1986–1990, the Lancôme Tour 1991–1994, the Telia Infomedia Golf Tour 1995–1997, the Telia Tour 1998–2008, the SAS Masters Tour 2008–2009, the Nordea Tour 2010–2016 and the Swedish Golf Tour 2017–2020. In 2021, the tour was renamed the Nordic Golf Tour, and known as the Ahlsell Nordic Golf Tour from 2022 for sponsorship reasons.

Tour name Years SponsorSwedish Golf Tour 1986–1990 Lancôme Tour 1991–1994 LancômeTelia Infomedia Golf Tour 1995–1997 Telia CompanyTelia Tour 1998–2008SAS Masters Tour 2008–2009 Scandinavian AirlinesNordea Tour 2010–2016 NordeaSwedish Golf Tour 2017–2020 Nordic Golf Tour 2021 Ahlsell Nordic Golf Tour 2022–2025 Swedish Golf Tour 2026–

Order of Merit winners Year Winner Country Money (SEK) Points2026 Tilde Löfman 23,750 23,7502025 Ragga Kristinsdóttir €12,697 12,6972024 Kajsa Arwefjäll €15,652 15,652 2023 Gemma Clews €11,702 117,0202022 Patricia Isabel Schmidt €8,501 9,2162021 Lily May Humphreys €14,980 14,4002020 Line Toft HansenLouise Rydqvist (a) 22,400 22,4002019 Tonje Daffinrud 215,876 160,9852018 Filippa Möörk 166.185 142,8992017 Sarah Nilsson 110,649 106,0022016 Jenny Haglund 278,104 202,3342015 Johanna Gustavsson 114,248 103,4202014 Natalie Wille 161.519 161,6082013 Lina Boqvist 91,149 84,4282012 Cecilie Lundgreen 121,670 97,2312011 Maria Ohlsson 177,601 128,5762010 Kaisa Ruuttila 300,650 218,0832009 Karin Börjeskog 175,509 136,7582008 Zuzana Mašínová 305,159 247,0732007 Marianne Skarpnord 270,550 2,9122006 Christine Hallström 162,659 1,7562005 Nina Reis 288,415 2,9682004 Emelie Svenningsson (Leijon) 125,456 1,5482003 Linda Wessberg 123,145 1,5842002 Riikka Hakkarainen 96,609 1,4022001 Maria Bodén 117,706 1,4752000 Susanne Westling 119,093 1,5141999 Lisa Hed 156,878 1,7151998 Nina Karlsson 76,725 1,0681997 Nina Karlsson 79,912 1,5451996 Maria Hjorth (McBride) 67,625 1995 Åsa Gottmo 29,7501994 Åsa Gottmo 71,9001993 Carin Hjalmarsson (Koch) 94,7501992 Carin Hjalmarsson (Koch) 81,8251991 Marie Wennersten 127,7001990 Marie Wennersten 71,7501989 Pia Nilsson 90,5001988 Sofia Grönberg (Whitmore) 34,0001987 Maria Guslin (Lindbladh) 37,5001986 Liselotte Neumann 90,300

Note: Until 1996, the SGT Order of Merit standings was decided by money won and since 1997 different point systems, not comparable between years, have been in force.

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See also List of sporting events in Sweden Swedish Golf Tour (men) Swedish PGA Championship (women)

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