Volvo Cross Country Challenge
Tournament information
Established2005
Tour(s)Ladies European Tour
Prize fund$120,000
$1,000,000 (bonus)
Volvo XC70
Final year2007
Final champion
England Kiran Matharu

The Volvo Cross Country Challenge was a women's professional golf series on the Ladies European Tour. It was a separate dedicated yearly order of merit for events in the Nordic region and held each year from 2005 to 2007.

The winner of the challenge received a Volvo car and prize money. The 18-year-old Kiran Matharu from Leeds, England, had yet to learn to drive when she won the Volvo Cross Country Challenge and a brand new Volvo XC70 in 2007.[1]

Participation

To qualify, players had to participate in at least three out of four of the LET tournaments hosted in Nordic countries:

  1. Sweden Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika
  2. Norway SAS Masters
  3. Finland Finnair Masters
  4. Denmark Nykredit Masters

Prize money collected in these tournaments were added up in a "Volvo XC Challenge Order-of-Merit". The top ten players on this Order-of-Merit shared a prize fund of $120,000.

In addition, players could get $1,000,000 bonus by winning all four of the above tournaments in one season.[2]

Winners

YearWinnerRef.
2007England Kiran Matharu[3]
2006England Laura Davies[4][5][6][7]
2005Sweden Cecilia Ekelundh[8][9][10]

References

  1. ↑ Kiran Matharu wins the Volvo Challenge Archived 2015-04-22 at archive.today, September 9th, 2007
  2. ↑ GolfToday. "LET and Volvo in new sponsorship deal".
  3. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Matharu wins Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  4. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Davies wins 2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  5. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  6. ↑ Ladies European Tour (23 August 2006). "Davies and Pettersen headline SAS Masters".
  7. ↑ Ladies European Tour (30 August 2006). "Davies heads strong field for Finnair Masters".
  8. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "Ekelundh receives her Volvo XC70".
  9. ↑ Ladies European Tour. "2006 Volvo Cross Country Challenge".
  10. ↑ "Ekelundh rullar mot toppen" [Ekelundh rolls to the top]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 10. October 2005. p. 113. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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