1961 European Ladies' Team Championship
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 22–27 September 1961 |
| Location | Como, Italy 45°46′40″N 9°8′10″E / 45.77778°N 9.13611°E |
| Course(s) | Circolo Golf Villa D'Este |
| Organized by | European Golf Association |
| Format | 36 holes stroke play round-robin system match play |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 69 |
| Field | 8 teams circa 38 players |
| Champion | |
 FranceClaudine Cros, Martine Gajan, M Mahé, Lally de Saint-Sauveur, Brigitte Varangot | |
| Qualification round: 441 (+27) Flight A matches: 6 points | |
| Location map | |
The 1961 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 22–27 September on the Circolo Golf Villa D'Este outside Como, Italy. It was the second ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.
Venue
[edit]The course, situated 4 kilometres south-east of Como, Lombardy region, the seventh oldest golf course in Italy, was designed by Peter Gannon and opened in 1926.[1]
The championship course was set up with par 69.
Format
[edit]All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next four teams formed flight B.
The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, two foursome games and four single games were played.
Teams
[edit]Eight nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players. Spain and Portugal took part for the first time.
Players in some of the teams
| Country | Players |
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| France |
Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan-Giraud, M. Mahé, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain), Brigitte Varangot |
 Netherlands
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L. de Boer, M. Henderson, Annie van Lanslot, Anneke van Riemsdijk |
 Portugal
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Barbara de Brito e Cunha, Cardie, Cordier, Vera Costa Lennox, Salette de Sousa e Melo |
 Sweden |
Gertrud Ahlberg, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Birgit Forsman, Britt Matsson, Ann-Katrin Svensson |
 West Germany
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Marietta Gütermann, Vera Möller, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger |
Other participating teams
| Country |
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 Belgium
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 Italy
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 Spain
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Winners
[edit]Defending champions team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A. Host nation Italy earned second place, just as they did at the previous championship two years earlier.
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Mercedes Etchart de Ártiach, Spain, with a score of 4-over-par 142.
Results
[edit]Qualification rounds
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Team standings
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score. |
Individual leader
Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
Team matches
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Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
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| France |
1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14–4 | 6 |
| Italy |
2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9–9 | 4 |
| Spain |
3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7.5–10.5 | 2 |
| Belgium |
4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5.5–12.5 | 0 |
Flight B
Team matches
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* Note: Sweden was given walkover in three games against the Netherlands and in two games against then West Germany, due to food poisoning.
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
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| West Germany
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5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14.5–3.5 | 6 |
| Netherlands
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6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9.5–8.5 | 4 |
| Sweden
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7 | 1 | 1 | 7.5–10.5 | 2 | |
| Portugal
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8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5–13.5 | 0 |
Final standings
| Place | Country |
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France
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Italy
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Spain
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| 4 | Belgium
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| 5 | West Germany
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| 6 | Netherlands
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| 7 | Sweden
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| 8 | Portugal
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See also
[edit]- Espirito Santo Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organized by the International Golf Federation.
- European Amateur Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association.
References
[edit]- ^ "Il nostro campo, La storia del golf italiano raccontata in 18 buche" [Our field, The history of Italian golf told in 18 holes] (in Italian). Villa d'Este Golf Club. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 182. ISBN 9172603283.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007.
- ^ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Europeiska Lagmatcher 1961" [European Team Matches 1961]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 9–10. December 1961. p. 30. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Franska damerna åter suveräna i EM" [French Ladies again outstanding at the European Ladies' Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 7. September–October 1961. p. 1. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.