Esab Open

The Esab Open was a golf tournament on the Swedish Golf Tour and the Challenge Tour. The inaugural tournament was held in Örebro, then it moved to Kungsbacka, Sweden.^[1]

Esab Open

Tournament information
Location	Kungsbacka, Sweden
Established	1986
Course(s)	Kungsbacka Golf Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	Challenge Tour Nordic Golf League Swedish Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	kr 400,000
Month played	September
Final year	2000
Tournament record score
Aggregate	205 Ove Sellberg (1988)
To par	−14 Patrik Gottfridsson (1999)
Final champion
Linus Pettersson
Location map
Kungsbacka Golf Club Location in Sweden

Winners

Year	Tour[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Purse (SEK)	Venue	Ref.
DFDS Tor Line Open
2000	NGL	Linus Pettersson (a)	281	−7	1 stroke	Jens Nilsson	400,000	Kungsbacka	[2]
1999	NGL	Patrik Gottfridsson	274	−14	3 strokes	Henrik Stenson Lars Tingvall Peter Viktor	400,000	Kungsbacka	[3]
Tor Line Open
1998	SWE	Johan Bjerhag	280	−8	1 stroke	Jimmy Kawalec	350,000	Kungsbacka	[4]
1997	SWE	Fredrik Forsvall	142[b]	+1	1 stroke	Ola Eliasson	200,000	Kungsbacka	[5]
1991–1996: No tournament
Esab Open
1990	CHA	Ricardo González	135[b]	−9	Playoff	Ole Eskildsen	300,000	Kungsbacka	[6]
1989	CHA	Carl-Magnus Strömberg	213	−3	3 strokes	Mikael Hed	260,000	Kungsbacka	[7]
1988	SWE	Ove Sellberg	205	−11	6 strokes	Jesper Parnevik	260,000	Kungsbacka	[8]
1987	SWE	Mikael Karlsson	218	+2	2 strokes	Peter Carsbo	200,000	Kungsbacka	[9]
1986	SWE	Mikael Högberg	213	E	Playoff	Johan Ryström Ove Sellberg	175,000	Örebro	[10]

Notes

1. CHA − Challenge Tour; SWE − Swedish Golf Tour.
2. Shortened to 36 holes due to rain.