Rörstrand Ladies Open

Golf tournament

Rörstrand Ladies OpenTournament 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]

## Winners

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Year | Winner | Score | Margin of
victory | Runner(s)-up | Prize
fund (SEK) | Ref

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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]

## References

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1. ^ "Golf - den stora sporten". Swedish Golf Federation. p. 278-279. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
2. ^ a b Golfdata: 1991 Rörstrand Ladies Open
3. ^ a b Golfdata: 1993 Rörstrand Ladies Open
4. ^ a b Golfdata: 1996 Rörstrand Ladies Open
5. ^ Golfdata: 1997 Rörstrand Ladies Open
6. ^ Golfdata: 1995 Rörstrand Ladies Open
7. ^ Golfdata: 1994 Rörstrand Ladies Open
8. ^ Golfdata: 1992 Rörstrand Ladies Open