2015 European Amateur Team Championship

2015 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
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
	Scotland; Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest,; , ,; , Connor Syme
	Qualification round: 724 (+4); Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
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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[]

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[]

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[]

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

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Belgium	Alan de Bondt, Aurian Capart, Maxence de Craecker, Thomas Detry, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Frederic De Vooght
Denmark	Philip Juel-Berg, , Martin Leth Simonsen, , Sixten Stemann Jensen,
England	Ashley Chesters, , Jimmy Mullen, , ,
Finland	Kim Koivu, Kristian Kulokorpi, Miki Kuronen, Mikko Lehtovuori, , Linus Väisänen
France	Léonard Bem, Alexandre Daydou, Romain Langasque, Thomas Perrot, Antoine Rozner,
Germany	Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Hurly Long, Maximilian Mehles, , , Maximilian Rottluff
Ireland	Paul Dunne, , , , Gavin Moynihan,
Scotland	Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, , , Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme
Spain	, Adri Arnaus, , , , Jon Rahm
Sweden	, , , Marcus Kinhult, ,

Other participating teams

Country
Czech Republic
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Switzerland
Wales

Winners[]

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland, 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 , France, and , Denmark with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of , 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[]

Qualification round

Team standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
1	Germany	356-353=709	−11
2	Ireland	355-359=714	−6
3	Spain	360-360=720	E
T4	France *	354-368=722	+2
T4	Denmark	354-368=722	+2
6	Scotland	367-357=724	+4
T7	England *	364-366=730	+10
T7	Sweden	368-362=730	+10
9	Italy	360-371=731	+11
10	Belgium	369-366=735	+15
11	Netherlands	368-369=737	+17
12	Wales	365-378=743	+23
13	Finland	369-378=747	+27
14	Czech Republic	373-380=753	+33
15	Switzerland	385-375=760	+40
16	Poland	405-383=788	+68

* 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

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1		France	69-70=139	−5
T1		Denmark	67-72=139	−5
3		Netherlands	69-71=140	−4
T4		Spain	73-68=141	−3
	Hurly Long	Germany	70-71=141
		Scotland	70-71=141
		Germany	72-69=141
T8		Wales	69-73=142	−2
	Thomas Detry	Belgium	70-72=142
	Paul Dunne	Ireland	74-68=142
	Grant Forrest	Scotland	71-71=142
		Ireland	70-72=142
	Jon Rahm	Spain	70-72=142
		Netherlands	72-70=142

Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Quarter finals

Sweden	Germany
4	3

Denmark	France
4	3

Scotland	Spain
4.5	2.5

England	Ireland
4.5	2.5

Elimination matches

France	Germany
3	2

Ireland	Spain
3.5	1.5

Match for 7th place

Spain	Germany
3.5	1.5

Match for 5th place

Ireland	France
3	2

Semi finals

Denmark	Sweden
4.5	2.5

Scotland	England
4	3

Bronze match

Sweden	England
4	3

Final

Scotland	Denmark
5	2
Forrest / Ferguson 7 & 5	Toft Hansen / Ste. Jensen
Robertson / McDonald 2 & 1	Nørgaard Møller / Launer Bæk
Grant Forrest 1 up	Niklas Nørgaard Møller
Ewen Ferguson	Martin L Simonsen 2 & 1
Jack McDonald 2 & 1	Morten Toft Hansen
Peter Launer Bæk AS *	Peter Launer Bæk AS *
Greig Marchbank	Philip Juel Berg 6 & 5

* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

First round elimination matches

Italy	Poland
3.5	1.5

Finland	Wales
3	2

Netherlands	Czech Republic
4	1

Belgium	Switzerland
4	1

Second round elimination matches

Finland	Italy
4.5	0.5

Belgium	Netherlands
3	2

Wales	Poland
3	2

Switzerland	Czech Republic
3	2

Match for 15th place

Poland	Czech Republic
3.5	1.5

Match for 13th place

Switzerland	Wales
3	2

Match for 11th place

Netherlands	Italy
3	2

Match for 9th place

Belgium	Finland
3.5	1.5

Final standings

Place	Country
	Scotland
	Denmark
	Sweden
4	England
5	Ireland
6	France
7	Spain
8	Germany
9	Belgium
10	Finland
11	Netherlands
12	Italy
13	Switzerland
14	Wales
15	Poland
16	Czech Republic

Source:^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

References[]

^ "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.

External links[]

European Golf Association: Full results

[1] "2015 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[2] Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 100. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[3] "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), Conditions of Competition". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[4] "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), The Course". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[5] "2015 European Amateur Championship Division 2". European Golf Association. Retrieved 27 May 2021.

[6] "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2015 - Halmstad GC, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[7] "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program)". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[8] "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.

[9] "Svenskt brons i lag-EM" [Swedish bronze at the European Amateur Team Championship] (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

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