2008 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 1–5 July 2008 |
Location | Fiano, Piedmont, Italy 45°10′N 7°34′E / 45.167°N 7.567°E |
Course(s) | (Allianz Course) |
Organized by | European Golf Association |
Format | Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,566 yards (6,004 m) |
Field | 20 teams 120 players |
Champion | |
Ireland Jonathan Caldwell, , Niall Kearney, Shane Lowry, , | |
Qualification round: 719 (−1) Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2 | |
Location Map | |
Royal Park G&CC Location in Europe | |
The 2008 European Amateur Team Championship took place 1–5 July at in Fiano, Italy. It was the 26th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.[1]
It was the first time the championship was played in consecutive years, since its inauguration in 1959.[1]
Venue[]
The club was founded in 1971 by the Agnelli family. Its first course, the Allianz Course, a parkland and forest course, in Fiano, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) northwest of Turin, in the region Piedmont, Italy, was designed the same year by Robert Trent Jones Sr.[2]
Format[]
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.
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 were 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.[1]
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.
The four teams placed 17–20 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
Teams[]
20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Poland took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the leading teams
Country | Players |
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Austria | Hans Peter Bacher, Tano Kromer, Bernhard Reiter, Florian Sander, Philipp Sharma, Johannes Steiner |
Denmark | , Morten Ørum Madsen, , , |
England | Charlie Ford, Matt Haines, Sam Hutsby, , , Chris Wood |
Finland | Janne Kaske, Immu Korvenmaa, Tuomas Pollari, Mikael Salminen, Kalle Samooja, Henri Satama |
France | , Édouard Dubois, Victor Dubuisson, Benjamin Hebert, Alexandre Kaleka, |
Germany | , Florian Fritsch, , Allen John, Maximilian Kieffer, Alexander Knappe |
Ireland | Jonathan Caldwell, , Niall Kearney, Shane Lowry, , |
Italy | Nino Bertasio, Federico Colombo, Matteo Manassero, Andrea Pavan, , |
Netherlands | , , Reinier Saxton, Tim Sluiter, , Floris De Vries |
Norway | , Knut Børsheim, , Espen Kofstad, , |
Scotland | , , , , , |
Spain | Jorge Campillo, , , , Carlos Pigem, , |
Sweden | Jesper Kennegård, Henrik Norlander, , , Pontus Widegren, Björn Åkesson |
Wales | Nigel Edwards, Ben Enoch, Rhys Enoch, Craig Evans, Zac Gould, Ben Westgate |
Other participating teams
Country |
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Belgium |
Estonia |
Iceland |
Poland |
Portugal |
Switzerland |
Winners[]
Five-time-winners team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 22-under-par score of 698. Tied five strokes behind were team Sweden and team Germany. Sweden earned 2nd place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host nation Italy, with 15-year-old future European Tour winner Matteo Manassero in the team, finished 5th.[1]
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader were , Scotland, with a 10-under-par score of 134, two strokes ahead of Jorge Campillo, Spain, and , Scotland.
Defending champions team Ireland, led by team captain Michael Burns, won the gold medal, earning their sixth title, beating team England in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The winning Irish team, combined from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, included future professional major winner 21-year-old Shane Lowry.[5][6]
Team Germany, earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 4–3 in the bronze match.[5][6]
Results[]
Qualification round
Team standings
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds. |
Individual leaders
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
Quarter finals
Elimination matches
Match for 7th place
Match for 5th place
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Semi finals
Bronze match
Final
* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided. |
Flight B
First round elimination matches
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Second round elimination matches
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Match for 15th place
Match for 13th place
Match for 11th place
Match for 9th place
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Flight C
First round
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Second round
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Third round
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Final standings
Place | Country |
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Ireland | |
England | |
Germany | |
4 | France |
5 | Scotland |
6 | Spain |
7 | Sweden |
8 | Italy |
9 | Netherlands |
10 | Austria |
11 | Denmark |
12 | Portugal |
13 | Norway |
14 | Wales |
15 | Belgium |
16 | Finland |
17 | Iceland |
18 | Switzerland |
19 | Poland |
20 | Estonia |
See also[]
- European Golf Association – Organizer of European amateur golf championships
- 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[]
- ^ a b c d e "European Amateur Team Championship , Results, 2008 - Royal Park G&CC, Turin, Italy". European Golf Association. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ "Royal Park G&CC, Allianz Course by Trent Jones Sr". Royal Park Golf & Country Club. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ "Welsh golf stars named for European team championships". Golf Monthly. 30 June 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ a b c "Ireland clinch Euro title for fifth time". Irish Examiner. 5 July 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "2008 European Amateur Men's Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
External links[]
- European Amateur Team Championship
- Golf tournaments in Italy
- 2008 in golf
- 2008 in Italian sport
- July 2008 sports events in Europe