The Danish Golf Championship is a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament on the
European Tour
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European ...
that is played annually in Denmark.
History
The inaugural tournament was played from 14 to 17 August 2014 at the HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort, in
Farsø
Farsø is a town with a population of 3,352 (1 January 2025) in Region Nordjylland in Denmark in the Vesthimmerland Municipality. Farsø was the birthplace of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. The village ...
, Denmark. HimmerLand hosted the event from 2014 to 2017. In 2015, the tournament featured the shortest par-3 hole in European Tour history, when the 16th hole played just in the final round.
In 2018, the Made in Denmark tournament was played at Silkeborg Ry Golfklub, before returning to HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort in 2019. During the
Made in Denmark Challenge
The Made in Denmark Challenge is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour. It was first played in May 2015 at the Royal Golf Club in Copenhagen, Denmark. It moved to Aalborg Golf Club in 2016, Royal Oak Golf Club in 2017, Himmerland Golf & Spa Resor ...
in June 2018, the organisation behind the tournament announced that Made in Denmark would continue for another five years, until 2023.
Following the confirmation that HimmerLand Golf & Spa Resort would cease hosting from 2024 onwards, it was announced that Lübker Golf Resort would host the 2024 event, being renamed as the Danish Golf Championship.
Winners
See also
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Nordic Open, previous European Tour event in Denmark
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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European Tour events
Golf tournaments in Denmark
Sport in Aalborg
Recurring sporting events established in 2014
2014 establishments in Denmark