2015 European Amateur Team Championship
 Official program cover 2015 European Amateur Team Championship | |
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 9–13 July 2015 |
| Location | Halmstad, Sweden 56°39′44″N 12°44′57″E / 56.662264°N 12.749291°E |
| Course(s) | Halmstad Golf Club (North Course) |
| Organized by | European Golf Association |
| Format | Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,001 yards (6,402 m) |
| Field | 16 teams 96 players |
| Champion | |
 ScotlandEwen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald, Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme | |
| Qualification round: 724 (+4) Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2 | |
| Location map | |
  Halmstad Golf Club Location in Europe  Halmstad Golf Club Location in Sweden  Halmstad Golf Club Location in Halland County | |
The 2015 European Amateur Team Championship took place 7–11 July at Halmstad Golf Club,[1] in Tylösand, Sweden. It was the 32nd men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
Venue
[edit]The tournament was played at the Halmstad Golf Club's North course in Tylösand, Halmstad Municipality, 9 kilometers west of Halmstad city center in Halland County, Sweden.
The club was founded in 1930. Its first 18-hole course was constructed by Rafael Sundblom and approved in 1938. Another nine holes, constructed by Nils Sköld, was inaugurated in 1967. Together with the last nine holes of the old course, this formed the new course, called the North Course.[2][3]
The club had previously hosted the 1985 European Amateur Team Championship and the 2007 Solheim Cup.
The championship course was set up with par 72.
Format
[edit]Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.[4]
The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team was drawn to play the quarter-final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Teams knocked out after the quarter-finals played one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.
The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
Teams
[edit]16 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the leading teams
Other participating teams
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 Czech Republic
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 Italy
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 Switzerland
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 Wales
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Winners
[edit]Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland and a combined team from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Host nation Sweden made it to the quarter-finals with a one-stroke-margin on eighth place.
There was no official award for the lowest individual scores, but individual leaders were Robin Sciot-Siergrist, France, and Morten Toft Hansen, Denmark with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of Rowin Caron, the Netherlands.
Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their seventh title, beating team Denmark in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The last time the championship took place at Halmstad Golf Club, in 1985, Scotland also was the champions, winning their second title in the history of the event.
Host nation Sweden earned the bronze on third place, after beating eleven-times-champion England 4–3 in the bronze match.
A second division, named European Amateur Championship Division 2, took place 8–11 July 2015 at Postolowo Golf Club, Poland. The three best placed teams, Portugal, Austria and Norway, qualified for the 2016 European Amateur Team Championship.[5]
Wales, Poland and the Czech Republic placed 14th, 15th and 16th in the first division and were moved to Division 2 for 2016.
Results
[edit]Qualification round
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Team standings
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the |
Individual leaders
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
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Bracket
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Final games
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Flight B
Bracket
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Final standings
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Scotland
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 Denmark
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 Sweden
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| 4 |  England
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| 5 |  Ireland
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| 6 |  France
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| 7 |  Spain
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| 8 |  Germany
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| 9 |  Belgium
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| 10 |  Finland
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| 11 |  Netherlands
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| 12 | Italy
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| 13 | Switzerland
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| 14 | Wales
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| 15 |  Poland
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| 16 | Czech Republic
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See also
[edit]- Eisenhower Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.
- European Ladies' Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association.
References
[edit]- ^ "2015 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 100. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), Conditions of Competition". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), The Course". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "2015 European Amateur Championship Division 2". European Golf Association. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2015 - Halmstad GC, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program)". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Sveriges lag till Europamästerskap i golf för herrar uttaget" [The Swedish team for the European Amateur Team Championship selected] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Svenskt brons i lag-EM" [Swedish bronze at the European Amateur Team Championship] (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.