2019 European Amateur Team Championship

2019 European Amateur Team Championship

Tournament information
Dates	9–13 July 2019
Location	Höllviken, Sweden 55°24′N 12°55′E / 55.400°N 12.917°E / 55.400; 12.917
Course(s)	Ljunghusen Golf Club
Organized by	European Golf Association
Format	Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,947 yards (6,352 m)
Field	16 teams 96 players
Champion
Sweden Ludvig Åberg, , Vincent Norrman, David Nyfjäll, Pontus Nyholm,
Qualification round: 714 (−6) Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
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The 2019 European Amateur Team Championship took place 9–13 July at Ljunghusen Golf Club in Höllviken, Sweden.^[1] It was the 36th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.^[2]

Venue[]

The hosting club was founded in 1932 and by 1965 it was the first golf club in Scandinavia to feature 27 holes, one of three clubs with links courses at the south west tip of Sweden, in Vellinge Municipality, Scania County. The championship was played at holes 1–18.^[1]

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Format[]

Each team consisted of six players, playing two rounds of an opening stroke-play qualifying competition 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 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. Belgium, Slovenia, and Wales had qualified for the championship by finishing first, second, and third in the 2018 Division 2. The other teams qualified by finishing top 13 in the 2018 championship.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Denmark	John Axelsen, Hamish William Brown, Alexander George Frances, Andreas Hillersborg Sorensen, August Thor Høst, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
England	, Harry Hall, Ben Jones, Matty Lamb, Tom Plum, Tom Sloman
France	Clément Charmasson, Alexandre Fuchs, Jeong-Weon Ko, Adrien Pendaries, David Ravetto, Victor Veyret
Germany	Jannik de Bruyn, , Alexander Herrmann, Maximilian Herrmann, Michael Hirmer, Matti Schmid
Ireland	Tiarnan McLarnon, Ronan Mullarney, Mark Power, Conor Purcell, Caolan Rafferty, James Sugrue
Scotland	Stuart Easton, , Euan McIntosh, Sandy Scott, , Euan Walker
Spain	, , Adrián Mata, Ignacio Montero , , Eduard Rousaud
Sweden	Ludvig Åberg, , Vincent Norrman, David Nyfjäll, Pontus Nyholm,
Wales	Ben Chamberlain, Archie Davies, Jacob Davies, Jake Hapgood, Matt Robert, Gaelen Trew

Other participating teams

Country
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Finland
Iceland
Netherlands
Slovenia

Winners[]

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Ireland, with a 19-under-par score of 701, three strokes ahead of team England.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was , Scotland, with a 12-under-par score of 132, two strokes ahead of nearest competitor.

Host nation Sweden won the gold medal, earning their third title and first since 1961, beating eleven-times-champion team England in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.

Team Scotland earned the bronze on third place, after beating Denmark 4–3 in the bronze match.

Finland, Czech Republic, and Slovenia placed 14th, 15th and 16th and was intended to be moved to Division 2 for 2020, to be replaced by Switzerland, Italy and Portugal, who finished first, second, and third respectively in the 2019 Division 2.^[3] The 2020 championship came to be reduced, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with several teams not participating, why the qualification status was changed.

Results[]

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

	Round 1				Round 2				Match for 9th place
	France	4.5
	Slovenia	0.5
					France	3
					Austria	2
	Austria	3.5
	Finland	1.5
									France	3
									Belgium	2
	Iceland	4
	Czech Republic	1
					Belgium	4.5
					Iceland	0.5			Match for 11th place
	Belgium	3.
	Netherlands	2
									Austria	3
									Iceland	2

	Elimination matches				Match for 13th place
	Finland	4
	Slovenia	1
					Netherlands	3
					Finland	2
	Netherlands	4
	Czech Republic	1
					Match for 15th place
					Czech Republic	3
					Slovenia	2

Final standings

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

Sources:^[4][5]

See also[]

• 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[]

External links[]

• European Golf Association: Full results