The 2008 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the SAS Masters Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Finland.
Scandinavian Airlines replaced Telia Company as the tour's main sponsor and minimum purse for tournaments were raised to SEK 300,000. The sponsorship agreement amounted to a total of SEK 55 million and included the men's SAS Masters (formerly Scandinavian Masters) and women's SAS Masters in Norway.
The Swedish International, held since 1962 and included on the tour since its inception in 1986, was discontinued.
Teenage twins Jacqueline and Caroline Hedwall finished top at the inaugural SAS Masters Tour event. Catrin Nilsmark and Czech Republic's Zuzana Mašínová both won two events, and Mašínová won the Order of Merit thanks to three runner-up finishes.
25 places at the LET event Göteborg Masters was reserved for players of the tour.
Schedule The season consisted of 12 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland, and one was a Ladies European Tour event.
DateTournamentLocationWinnerScoreMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-upPurse(SEK)NoteRef Telenor Masters Barsebäck/St Ibb Caroline Hedwall (a) 216 (+2) 2 strokes Jacqueline Hedwall (a) 300,000 IT-Arkitekterna Ladies Open Botkyrka Catrin Nilsmark 219 (+3) 2 strokes Josefin Leijon Zuzana Mašínová 300,000 Kungsängen Queens Masters Kungsängen Anna Becker 216 (+6) 3 strokes Antonella Cvitan Zuzana Mašínová Jenni Kuosa 300,000 Felix Finnish Ladies Open Aura, Finland Zuzana Mašínová 207 (−6) 6 strokes Sarah Heath Lotta Lovén 300,000 Smådalarö Gård Open Smådalarö Gård Johanna Lundberg Josefin Leijon 300,000 SM Match Örebro Anna Nordqvist (a) Lisa Hed 300,000 PGA Open Norrtelje Catrin Nilsmark 219 (+3) 1 stroke Zuzana Mašínová 300,000 VW Söderberg Ladies Masters Bråviken Sanna Johansson 216 (E) 1 stroke Johanna Lundberg 300,000 Svensk Biogas Masters Landeryd Johanna Westerberg 211 (−5) 7 strokes Antonella Cvitan Emma Weeks 300,000 Göteborg Masters Lycke Gwladys Nocera 259 (−29) 11 strokes Nina Reis €250,000 LET event Mölle Masters Mölle Emma Weeks 211 (+1) Playoff Eva Bjärvall 300,000 Volkswagen Open Kallfors Zuzana Mašínová 215 (−1) 2 strokes Karin Börjeskog 300,000
Order of Merit An official feeder tour for the Ladies European Tour, the top two finishers in the Order of Merit earned LET cards for 2009. The two qualifiers received Exemption Category 7, ahead of the 30 Q-School graduates with Category 8A. Johanna Lundberg received the second card, as Catrin Nilsmark was already exempt in Category 2, after winning an LET major, the Evian Masters.
Rank Player 1 Zuzana Mašínová2 Catrin Nilsmark3 Johanna Lundberg
See also 2008 Swedish Golf Tour (men's tour)
References
External links Official homepage of the Swedish Golf Tour