OR IST ISK H A F S L Ä O L L G T IF S R K SK A S A R K Å S P E N T E V 2016 S YYEEAARRBBOOOOKK 22001166 A summary of Årsskrift 2016. Published by The Swedish Society of Golf Historians. 1 Kärstin was first among 23 4 5 68 Swedish tour winners Swedish tour winners: 1. Mats Lanner was given Kärstin Ehrnlund was the first 70 in the second round – ”the a free call home, right Swedish player to win on any of most important round of my life”, from the greenside, after the major tours. This was in she said. The following year she he won in 1984. 1980, and just as mobile phones won the McEwan Lager Welsh 2. Kärstin Ehrnlund, have changed since then, so has Classic at the Whitchurch GC, 1979. 3. Jesper Parnevik, Sweden’s professional game. near Cardiff. 1995. 4. Helen Alfreds - 68 players have won 317 tour - Jörgen later took on the task to son, Liselotte Neumann naments, with 100 wins on the keep track of all Swedish tour and Annika Sörenstam, European tour. winners. With the help of his lists 1992. 5. Robert Karlsson, Golf writer Jörgen Ohlson covered he has written the leading article 1991. Kärstin Ehrnlund’s first professio - in Årsskrift 2016, looking back at nal entry in 1979. She opened the players who put Sweden on PICTURES BY RONNY KARLSSON (1, 3, 4, 5) AND JÖRGEN OHLSON (2) with an 82 but came back with a the golfing map of the world. Continued Let’s get it right: The ladies have taken most of the wins Caddie and dormie Georg Kittel, president of Kärstin was first... top with five wins each. the Swedish Golf Histo - Ove Sellberg was the first win - The ladies have scored two rians, reminds us to write ner among the men, in 1986. thirds of Sweden’s tour wins. caddie and dormie , rather Then came Mats Lanner and Annika Sörenstam alone has 89 than caddy and dormy . He Anders Forsbrand, who in 1992 wins in Europe and USA. Lise lotte quotes a range of sources was the first Swede to be ranked Neumann became Sweden’s first going back to the 18th cen - Europe Number One. Another major champion at the 1988 US tury. A caddy is a different Swede to reach the summit was Open. Then came Helen Alfreds - thing, like a tea caddy . Robert Karlsson, who won the son in 1993 and Annika in 1995. Dubai World Champion ship – and Anna Nordqvist, of a younger Hester’s swing the European Tour – in 2010. generation, became Sweden’s Gabriel Hjertstedt was the first fourth major champion in 2009. held for 40 years Swede to win on the PGA tour in As usual the men are determi - Lennart Sohlin wanted America. This was in 1997. He ned to gain their first major victo - his father in law Uno has been followed by another ry this year, with World number Windefelt to take up golf eight players with Jesper seven Henrik Stenson first among and took him to a driving Parnevik and Carl Pettersson on the contenders. range. Uno gripped a five iron and clipped the ball The hickory trophy in new hands 140 yards down the T E middle. I J ”Have you played be- A G fore”, asked Lennart and Ä R Uno confessed, yes, he T N had played. E It was during the war R when he was stationed at Falsterbo, right beside the golf course. The Hoylake professional William Hester took the soldiers out. Uno stayed The defending champions Eva Adermark (far left) and Johan Moberg (far long enough to groove a right) handed over the trophy of the Swedish Hickory Championship to the Hester swing so steady it 2015 winners Christina Elmér and Magnus Sunesson. The competition held 40 years later. was played at Flommens Golfklubb on the southern tip of Sweden. The But he never took up 2016 championship will be played at Borås Golfklubb in south-western golf. Sweden on 6 –7 August. Swedish Society of Golf Historians celebrate 20 years R O N N Y K A R L S S O N 1 2 3 4 Great Moments: 1. Åke Skeppare drove himself in as founding president of the Swedish Society of Golf Historians in 1996. 2. Ulf Laurin, president of the Swedish Golf Federation, opened the Swedish Golf Museum in Landskrona in 2000. 3. Europe Captain David Kirkwood lifted the Hickory Grail trophy at Falsterbo in 2009. 4. Prince Daniel, husband of Crown Princess Victoria, reopened the Råsunda course near Stockholm in 2012 – for one day only. Stockholms Golfklubb laid out this course in 1912 and Hoylake professional Ted Roberts worked here. The Swedish Society of Golf Historians. Please visit our website: www.golfhistoriska.se . There you will find Hickorykalender 2016 (under Kalender ) with information about hickory golf tournaments in Sweden. President: Georg Kittel, [email protected]. Hon Secretary: Hans Grandin, [email protected] . Editor of the yearbook: Pehr Thermaenius, [email protected]..