The Danish Golf Tour, currently titled as the ECCO Tour for sponsorship reasons, is a developmental professional golf tour based in Denmark. Similar to the Swedish Golf Tour, most events on the Danish Golf Tour schedule are incorporated into the Nordic Golf League, one of the third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.
| Formerly | Scanplan Tour |
|---|---|
| Sport | Golf |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Dan Stage PGA of Denmark |
| First season | 2003 |
| Countries | Based in Denmark[a] |
| Most titles | Tournament wins: Jens Dantorp (4) Jacob Glennemo (4) |
| Related competitions | Finnish Tour Nordic Golf League Norwegian Golf Tour Swedish Golf Tour |
| Official website | https://www.eccotour.org/ |
History edit
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 Made in HimmerLand event on the European Tour).[3][4]
Seasons edit
Order of Merit winners edit
| Year | Winner | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | No Order of Merit awarded | |
| 2022 |  Frederik Birkelund |
225,727 |
| 2021 | Peter Launer Bæk |
178,563 |
| 2020 | Marcus Helligkilde |
123,066 |
| 2019 |  Elias Bertheussen |
146,909 |
| 2018 | Aksel Olsen |
222,141 |
| 2017 |  Axel Bóasson |
171,213 |
| Year | Winner | Prize money (DKr) |
| 2016 |  Oliver Lindell |
253,591 |
| 2015 | Tapio Pulkkanen |
282,813 |
| 2014 | Jacob Glennemo |
280,040 |
| 2013 | Jeff Winther |
197,385 |
| 2012 | Lucas Bjerregaard |
204,438 |
| 2011 | Jens Dantorp |
290,136 |
| 2010 | Thomas Nørret |
182,119 |
| 2009 |  José-Filipe Lima |
216,000 |
| 2008 | Eirik Tage Johansen |
191,432 |
| Year | Winner | Points |
| 2007 | Andreas Högberg |
13,390 |
| 2006 | Christoffer Lange |
1,484 |
| 2005 | Raimo Sjöberg |
1,153 |
| 2004 | Peter Viktor |
1,448 |
| 2003 | Øyvind Rojahn |
1,295 |
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ Schedules have also included events in Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
References edit
- ^ a b "About the tour". Scanplan Tour. Archived from the original on 3 May 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "John Axelsen vinder Race to Himmerland". sn.dk (in Danish). 7 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ "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.