Rörstrand Ladies Open

Rörstrand Ladies Open

Tournament information
Location	Lidköping, Sweden
Established	1991
Course(s)	Lidköping GK
Par	71
Tour(s)	Swedish Golf Tour
Format	54-hole stroke play
Prize fund	SEK 85–100,000
Month played	May
Final year	1997
Tournament record score
Aggregate	206 Linda Ericsson (1992)
To par	−7 as above
Final champion
Karolina Andersson

The Rörstrand Ladies Open was a women's professional golf tournament on the Swedish Golf Tour played annually from 1991 until 1997. It was always held at the Lidköping Golf Club in Lidköping, Sweden.^[1]

The tournament attracted top female Swedish golfers and in 1991 future Ladies European Tour (LET) player Maria Bertilsköld won, while Marie Wennersten, winner of the 1985 Mitsubishi Colt Cars Jersey Open finished third, and Åsa Gottmo, eventual winner of the Wales Ladies Championship of Europe, finished fifth.^[2]

1993 marked the tournament's peak, with many international players from the LET taking part, boasting a field including 13-time LET winner Corinne Dibnah, LET/LPGA winners Mardi Lunn, Debbie Dowling, Carin Koch, Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore and that year's winner Dale Reid, a Scottish golfing legend with 21 European Tour victories. On the cusp of breaking through and become LPGA Rookie of the Year 1994, Annika Sörenstam finished 14th, 8 strokes behind Reid.^[3]

In 1996 Sophie Gustafson, who would go on to win 16 times on the Ladies European Tour, secured her first professional win head of her maiden LET victory at the Ladies Swiss Open three weeks later. Runner-up Maria Hjorth, the 1995 European Ladies Amateur Champion, had just turned professional and would soon go on to win five times on the LPGA Tour and play 5 Solheim Cups. Charlotta Sörenstam finished tied for 7th, 7 strokes behind Gustafson.^[4]

Year	Winner	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Prize fund (SEK)	Ref
1997	Karolina Andersson (a)	−5 (67-70-71=208)	2 strokes	Nina Karlsson	85,000	[5]
1996	Sophie Gustafson	+4 (73-72-72=217)	4 strokes	Maria Hjorth Petra Rigby	85,000	[4]
1995	Sara Eklund (a)	+9 (77-78-67=222)	1 stroke	Åsa Gottmo Riikka Hakkarainen	85,000	[6]
1994	Anna-Carin Jonasson (a)	+4 (217)	2 strokes	Helene Koch	85,000	[7]
1993	Dale Reid	+3 (216)	1 stroke	Karolina Andersson Carin Koch Sarah Nicklin	100,000	[3]
1992	Linda Ericsson (a)	−7 (206)	5 strokes	Anna-Carin Jonasson	85,000	[8]
1991	Maria Bertilsköld	−1 (212)	5 strokes	Maria Brink	85,000	[2]