Scandinavian Masters

Scandinavian Masters
Tournament information
Location Malmö, Sweden
Established 1991
Course(s) PGA Sweden National
Par 72
Length 7,390 yards (6,760 m)
Tour(s) European Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund 1,500,000
Month played June
Tournament record score
Aggregate 262 Mark Hensby (2005)
To par −22 Mark Hensby (2005)
Current champion
Sweden Alexander Norén
Malmö
Location in Sweden

The Scandinavian Masters, currently known as the Nordea Masters for sponsorship reasons, is an annual golf tournament on the European Tour which is played in Sweden.

The tournament has its origins in the late 1960s with the Volvo Open, which became the Scandinavian Enterprise Open in 1973, when it also became the first Swedish stop on the European Tour schedule. In 1991, the SEO merged with the PLM Open, with the resultant tournament being called the Scandinavian Masters.[1]

The Scandinavian Masters is currently the only European Tour event to be held in Scandinavia, and in 2013 had a prize fund of 1.5 million, which is at the lower end of the scale for European Tour events held in the tour's home continent.

Until 2011, the tournament was played at the end of July or the beginning of August each year. For 2012, it moved to the first weekend in June, and was played from Wednesday to Saturday to allow players more time to travel to the following week's U.S. Open.[2]

Winners

YearWinnerCountryScoreTo parMargin
of victory
Runner(s)-up
Nordea Masters
2015 Alexander Norén (2)  Sweden 276 −12 4 strokes Denmark Søren Kjeldsen
2014 Thongchai Jaidee  Thailand 272 −16 Playoff France Victor Dubuisson
Scotland Stephen Gallacher
2013 Mikko Ilonen (2)  Finland 267 −21 3 strokes Sweden Jonas Blixt
2012 Lee Westwood (3)  England 269 −19 5 strokes England Ross Fisher
2011 Alexander Norén  Sweden 273 −15 7 strokes England Richard Finch
Nordea Scandinavian Masters
2010 Richard S. Johnson  Sweden 277 −11 1 stroke Argentina Rafael Echenique
SAS Masters
2009 Ricardo González  Argentina 282 −10 2 strokes Wales Jamie Donaldson
2008 Peter Hanson  Sweden 271 −9 1 stroke England Nick Dougherty
Sweden Pelle Edberg
Scandinavian Masters
2007 Mikko Ilonen  Finland 274 −6 2 strokes France Christian Cévaër
England Nick Dougherty
France Jean-Baptiste Gonnet
Sweden Peter Hedblom
Germany Martin Kaymer
EnterCard Scandinavian Masters
2006 Marc Warren  Scotland 278 −10 Playoff Sweden Robert Karlsson
Scandinavian Masters by Carlsberg
2005 Mark Hensby  Australia 262 −22 Playoff Sweden Henrik Stenson
2004 Luke Donald  England 272 −16 5 strokes Sweden Peter Hanson
Scandic Carlsberg Scandinavian Masters
2003 Adam Scott  Australia 277 −11 2 strokes England Nick Dougherty
Volvo Scandinavian Masters
2002 Graeme McDowell  Northern Ireland 270 −14 1 stroke South Africa Trevor Immelman
2001 Colin Montgomerie (3)  Scotland 274 −14 1 stroke England Ian Poulter
England Lee Westwood
2000 Lee Westwood (2)  England 270 −14 3 strokes New Zealand Michael Campbell
1999 Colin Montgomerie (2)  Scotland 268 −20 9 strokes Sweden Jesper Parnevik
1998 Jesper Parnevik (2)  Sweden 273 −11 3 strokes Northern Ireland Darren Clarke
1997 Joakim Haeggman  Sweden 270 −18 4 strokes Spain Ignacio Garrido
1996 Lee Westwood  England 281 −7 Playoff Sweden Paul Broadhurst
England Russell Claydon
1995 Jesper Parnevik  Sweden 270 −18 5 strokes Scotland Colin Montgomerie
Scandinavian Masters
1994 Vijay Singh  Fiji 268 −20 3 strokes Zimbabwe Mark McNulty
1993 Peter Baker  England 278 −10 Playoff Sweden Anders Forsbrand
1992 Nick Faldo  England 277 −11 3 strokes Australia Robert Allenby
England Peter Baker
Canada Danny Mijovic
New Zealand Frank Nobilo
Spain José María Olazábal
Australia Peter O'Malley
1991 Colin Montgomerie  Scotland 270 −18 1 stroke Spain Seve Ballesteros

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Coordinates: 55°34′05″N 13°11′20″E / 55.568°N 13.189°E / 55.568; 13.189

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