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Svensk Golf Sida 100 THE SWEDISH WAY niors playing
one another in the same tournaments. Forsbacka, vvith an annual membership fee of about 200 dollars, is a fairly average Swedish golf club. But changes have taken place in re- cent years in Sweden at a slightly higher level, and this has aroused interest abroad. Instead of dividing golfers up into two separate categories — professionals and amateurs — as has always been the case, a new form of golf is now in practice: open golf. Professionals and amateurs can now meet and compete in the same tourna- ments. All categories of golfers can play in regular divisional play, and the club pro has as much right as anyone else to enter the club championship, a develop- ment vvhich was totally unthinkable a few years ago. The Swedish Golf Tour has slowly grown in size över the past few years, and this year prize money totals 13 mil- lion kronor, or roughly two million dol- lars. This has generated a hotbed of com- WELL PRESERVED. A beautiful I3th century tiled stove in the Farsbacka clubhouse. petition in Sweden, which will ultimat- ely produce tomorrow's golfers. Corpo- rate interest in sponsoring tournaments is so tremendous that tournament offi- cials are forced to tum many companies down. So the Swedish tour will undoub- tedly grow even richer. Golf will undergo enormous growth in Sweden in the future, but Swedish golfers are already achieving results that were only dreamt of ten years ago. On the men's side, there are eight Swedes on the European tour, and three—Ove Sell- berg, Mats Lanner and Anders Fors- brand—have already won tournaments. Last year, Magnus Persson came close to winning Sweden'sown Scandinavian En- terprise Open. Among the ladies, Lise- lotte Neumann is in a class of her own. After being ranked as the number two women's golfer in Europe, she joined the LPGA tour in the USA and is playing very successfully. VM- ORGANISATIONEN Hederskommitté (Honorary Committee) HRH Prince Bertil Bertil Westblad Lennart Molander Lars Bergman Jan-Erik Hagman Ingemar Josefsson Stefan Cronberg Leif Axelsson Sven A. Svennberg Svante Ödman Organisationskommitté (Executive Committee) Lennart Molander Sven Höglund Anders Hemgren Göran Henriks Bertil Westblad Lars Granberg Ola Öquist Barbro Montgomery VM-kommitté (Championship Committee) Anders Hemgren Hans Lienzén Barbro Montgomery Jan Ohlin Göran Hermes Ola Öquist Lennart Poignant Per Adler Inge Boholm Jens Lind is a sports reporter for the Swedish television. He has had a 2 handicap. 100 ctually, it is difficult to get used to the successes of Sweden's golfers. I grevv up under the impression that SwederTs climate was perfectly suited for ice hockey and skiing, but that it was impossible to produce a top class Swedish golfer, unless he or she moved abroad at a very early age. I might as well get used to it, though, because Swedish golfers are going to achieve even more success in the future. The reason for my certainty is that many more young people are playing golf today than when Sweden's best gol- fers began playing. And since Swedes have penchant for organization, talen- ted youngsters will no doubt be discover- ed at an early age and sent off to the training camps, teenage tours, golf schools, golf platoons and all otherman- ner of golf improvement institutes. The question that is of greater urgency today is how we can manage to build all the courses that have been planned. Sweden is a young golfing nation with a limited background in the game. A large number of golfing experts must be pro- duced overnight to be certain of coping successfully with the golfing explosure. By the end of the century, we'll know how well Sweden did cope. And vvho knows—golf may very well turn into the most populär sport in the land of winter sports. A
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