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History
The Helvetis-Boda Challenge Trophy (HBT) and The Equalizer Trophy (ET) annual golf tournaments were established and first played in Sweden early spring of 1996. The founders and original competitors have hosted and participated in all events since that first rainy weekend in Västerås.
While The Helevetis-Boda Challenge Trophy is a spring tournament, The Equallizer Trophy is played in the autumn. Thus, these two tournaments measure not only the low end performance of the competitors at the beginning of the season, but also measure the high end performance at the end of a full season, making it the optimal measurer of the competitors true total golfing skills. Today, both tournaments are decided over two days and 36 holes.
The Equalizer Trophy, being played later in the year, offers the competitors a chance for a re-match against the spring tournament winner, thus enabling them to repay the other for "old cheese" and setting their golfing relationship back in a a state of equality, thus the name "Equalizer Trophy".
The seemingly short period of time that has passed since that first scheduling dinner in Henrik´s student room at Värmlands Nations studenthem in Uppsala the winter of 1995/1996 has offered a great deal of suspense over the tournaments played so far.
Participating
Rules of participating in either of the two tournaments are very strict. Only by having a close relationship with any of the original participants or founders and by the consent of all of them may a player be invited to participate in either of the two tournaments.
This invitation is not only hard to win once, but it must also be renewed each coming season. For a successful renewal, the candidate must not only display adequate golfing skills and golfing behavior, but must also e.g. have the strength to participate in card games (dressed only in underwear, drinking plenty of beer, spirits and wines) and also have the good sense not to win either of the two tournaments too often.
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