In Sweden, from 9 to 12 June, the second edition of the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed will be staged – a tournament organized in combination by the DP World Tour and the Ladies European Tour – which will see 156 competitors compete: 78 men and as many women.
The ranking will be unique as well as the prize pool (2,000,000 dollars, an increase of 1,000,000 compared to 2021). And Italgolf, at the Halmstad Golf Club in Tylosand, will be able to count on the proette Virginia Elena Carta and on the amateur Carolina Melgrati (fourth at the Ladies Italian Open after having also been in the lead).
But also on Edoardo Molinari, Francesco Laporta, Renato Paratore, Andrea Pavan and Lorenzo Gagli. In an event that will once again see the protagonists (not only as ambassadors of the competition) Annika Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson, just inducted into the Swedish Golf Hall of Fame.
Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, schedule
After last year’s exploit, Northern Irishman Jonathan Caldwell will be looking for an encore of successes in the event. Among the players, in the field there are also seven winners of at least one tournament on the LET 2022.
The English Alice Hewson, third and best project last year at the Scandinavian Mixed, will be among the most anticipated protagonists. Annika Sörenstam (Stockholm, 9 October 1970) is a Swedish golfer. She starts playing golf at 12, after quitting tennis.
She studies at the University of Arizona, where in 1991 she wins the title of best NCAA player. In 1992 she won the Amateur World Championship and reached the final at the US Amateur Championships, after having been All American in 1991 and 1992.
Also in 1992 she made her professional debut and since then she has won 59 tournaments on the women’s LPGA Tour circuit. These include 7 Slam trophies: Us Women’s Open (1995, 1996), Kraft Nabisco Championship (2001, 2002, 2005), McDonald’s LPGA Championship (2003) and Weetabix Women’s British Open (2003).
She is considered the best player in the history of women’s golf. In 2001 she achieved 30 records, including the best average ever (69.42). In the same year, she broke the record for her own prizes by exceeding $ 2 million; she then tweaked this performance over the next few years, up to a new record of $ 2,863,904.
Other records of 2001 were the 4 wins in a row on the LPGA tour and the 59 hits in a single lap. In 2002, she set the record for 13 titles in one season, equaling Mickey Wright (1964). She retired from professionalism in 2008: in all her career she has won a prize pool of 16.5 million dollars and she only needs one trophy to reach Patty Berg, the founder of the LPGA, in 60 tournaments.
In 1995 she was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, the prize awarded by the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper to the best Swedish sportsman of the year. In 2021, after 13 years of inactivity, she returns to compete by taking part in the Gainbridge Championship, the official event of the LPGA Tour, from 25 to 28 February in the city of Orlando.
