The Rörstrand Ladies Open was a women's professional

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tournament on the Swedish Golf Tour played annually from 1991 until 1997. It was always held at the Lidköping Golf Club in

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. The tournament attracted top female Swedish golfers and in 1991 future

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(LET) player Maria Bertilsköld won, while Marie Wennersten, winner of the 1985 Mitsubishi Colt Cars Jersey Open finished third, and

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, eventual winner of the

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, finished fifth. 1993 marked the tournament's peak, with many international players from the LET taking part, boasting a field including 13-time LET winner

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, LET/LPGA winners Mardi Lunn, Debbie Dowling, Carin Koch, Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore and that year's winner

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finished 14th, 8 strokes behind Reid. In 1996

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, who would go on to win 16 times on the Ladies European Tour, secured her first professional win head of her maiden LET victory at the Ladies Swiss Open three weeks later. Runner-up Maria Hjorth, the 1995 European Ladies Amateur Champion, had just turned professional and would soon go on to win five times on the

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and play 5

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s. Charlotta Sörenstam finished tied for 7th, 7 strokes behind Gustafson.

Winners

References

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