1981 European Ladies' Team Championship

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1981 European Ladies' Team Championship
Vista de Setúbal desde el molino, Sierra de San Felipe, Portugal, 2012-05-11, DD 01.JPG
The Tróia Peninsula
Tournament information
Dates24–28 June 1981
LocationTróia Peninsula, Carvalhal, Grândola Municipality, Portugal
38°28′45″N 8°53′26″W / 38.47917°N 8.89056°W / 38.47917; -8.89056
Course(s)
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
Format36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par73
Field15 teams
90 players
Champion
 Sweden
, ,
, Charlotte Montgomery,
Pia Nilsson, Liv Wollin
Qualification round: 776 (+46)
Final match 41⁄2–21⁄2
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The 1981 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 24–28 June at the in Carvalhal, Portugal. It was the twelfth women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue[]

The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones and situated on the Tróia Peninsula, Grândola Municipality, 40 kilometres south-east of the city center of Lisbon, Portugal, stretched along the beach, with views over the sea and with sandy roughs.[1]

The championship course was set up with par 73.

Format[]

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke-play with six players, counted the five best scores for each team.

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. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single games after the morning foursome games. Games all square after 18 holes were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams[]

15 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Denmark Mette Andersen, Anette Hagdrup, Merete Meiland, Anette Peitersen, Tina Pors, Lotta Schmidt
 France Elaine Berthé, Nathalie Jeanson, Sophie Lapaire, Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue
 Italy Emanuelo Braito, , Federica Dassù, P. Tolomei, S. Valli
 Scotland Wilma Aitken, L. Bennett, Alison Gemmill, Belle Robertson, Gillian Stewart, Pamela Wright
 Spain Ana Monfort de Albox, Marta Figueras-Dotti, Elena Larrazabal, Cristina Marsans, Vicky Pertierra
 Sweden , , , Charlotte Montgomery, Pia Nilsson, Liv Wollin
 West Germany Sabine Blecher, Silke Greve, Susanne Knödler, Astrid Peter, Marion Thannhäuser, Ines Umsen

Other participating teams

Country
 Belgium
 England
 Ireland
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
  Switzerland
 Wales

Winners[]

Four-times-champions team France won the opening 36-hole qualifying competition, with a score of 37 over par 767, nine strokes ahead of team Sweden. Defending champions team Ireland made it to the quarter finals, finishing eighth, on the same score as ninth-placed team Wales, but with the tie-breaking better non-counting scores.

Individual leader in the 36-hole stroke-play competition was Charlotte Montgomery, Sweden, with a score of 1-under-par 145, three strokes ahead of her Swedish teammate Liv Wollin.

During the quarter finals, in the foursome game between Susan Gorman / Claire Hourihane, Ireland, and Elaine Berthet / Sophie Lapaire, France, Hourihane made a hole-in-one on the 150 meters 11th hole, using a 6-iron. However, the French pair won the game and team France eventually advanced to the final of the tournament.[2]

Team Sweden won the championship, earning their first title, beating France in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2, despite France was leading 2–0 after the morning foursomes. Playing in their ninth final, France had finished on the podium in all twelve European Ladies' Team Championships played since its inauguration in 1959. Team Spain, earned third place, beating Scotland 5–2 in the third place match.

The three teams placed first, second and third, were awarded with gold-, silver- and bronze-medals respectively, introduced by the organizing European Golf Association.[2]

Results[]

Qualification round

Flight A

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Spain
4  Scotland
5  Italy
6  Denmark
7  West Germany
8  Ireland
9  Netherlands
10  England
11  Wales
12   Switzerland
13  Norway
14  Belgium
15  Portugal

Sources:[2][3][4][5][6][7]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Introduction". Troia Resort. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Nordlund, Anders (August 1981). "Allt började så illa, men slutade i EM-guld" [It all began so bad, but ended in European Championship gold]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6. pp. 12–15. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  3. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 193. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  4. ^ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Scots threaten English reign". The Glasgow Herald. 24 June 1981. p. 22. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Scots qualify". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1981. p. 19. Retrieved 29 October 2021.

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