1983 European Amateur Team Championship

1983 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates22–26 June 1983
LocationParis, France
49°12′20″N 2°29′00″E / 49.20556°N 2.48333°E / 49.20556; 2.48333
Course(s)Golf de Chantilly
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par71
Length7,108 yards (6,500 m)
Field19 teams
114 players
Champion
 Ireland
John Carr, Tom Cleary,
Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris,
Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton
Qualification round: 730 (+20)
Final match: 5–2
Location map
Location in Europe
Location in France
Location in Hauts-de-France
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The 1983 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–26 June at Golf de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France. It was the 13th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

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The hosting club was founded in 1909. The Vineuil Course, situated in Chantilly, in the forest of the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the center of Paris, close to the Château de Chantilly and Chantilly Racecourse, was originally designed by John Henry Taylor and later redesigned by Tom Simpson and Donald Steel. It had previously hosted eight editions of the Open de France.

For the 1983 European Amateur Team Championship, the course was set up with par 71 over 7,108 yards.

Format

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Each team consisted of five or 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 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. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–19 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

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19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Denmark Henry Knudsen, Leif Nyholm, Jacob Rasmussen, Søren Rolner, Anders Sørensen, Steen Tinning
 England Peter Hedges, Stephen Keppler, Peter McEvoy, Andrew Oldcorn, Jonathan Plaxton, Martin Thompson
 France Sven Boinet, Alexis Godillot, Marc Pendariès, Eric Pery, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-Louis Schneider
 Ireland John Carr, Tom Cleary, Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris, Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton
 Italy Mauro Bianco, Alberto Binaghi, Emanuele Bolognesi, Andrea Canessa, Silvio Grappasonni, Sergio Prati
 Norway Eric Bjerkholt, Tom Fredriksen, Gard Midtvåge, Ragnvald Risan, Tore Christian Sviland, Lars-Erik Underthun
 Scotland Frank Coutts, Colin Dalgleish, George MacGregor, Lindsay Mann, Stephen McAllister, J.A. Thomson
 Spain Ignacio Gervás, Julián García-Mayoral, José María Olazábal, Alejo Ollé, Borja Queipo de Llano, Román Taya
 Sweden Thomas Andersson, Antero Baburin, Magnus Hennberg, Per Jönsson, Anders Sandgren, Björn Svedin
 Wales R.D. Broad, G. Davies, John Roger Jones, David McLean, Philip Parkin, D.K. Wood
 West Germany Thomas Dekorsy, Hans-Günter Reiter, Frank Schlig, Ulrich Schulte, Christoph Städler, Ralf Thielemann

Other participating teams

Country
 Austria
 Belgium
 Finland
 Greece
 Iceland
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Switzerland

Winners

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Team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 8 over par 718.

Individual leader was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 8-under-par 134, five strokes ahead of Tore Christian Sviland, Norway. In his second round, McEvoy scored 8 birdies and 10 pars for an 8-under-par 63 score on the Chantilly course.

Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Spain in the final 5–2. Team Italy earned the bronze on third place, after beating Scotland 4–3 in the bronze match.

Results

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Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

 
Round 1Round 2Match for 9th place
 
          
 
 
 
 
 Sweden6
 
 
 
 Greece1
 
 Sweden6
 
 
 
 Wales1
 
 Wales5
 
 
 
 Finland2
 
 Sweden5
 
 
 
 Switzerland2
 
 Switzerland4
 
 
 
 Belgium3
 
 Switzerland4
 
 
 West Germany3 Match for 11th place
 
 
 
 
 
 West Germany4.5
 
 
 Wales2.5
 
 
Round 1Match for 13th place
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Finland4.5
 
 
 Belgium2.5
 
 
 
 

Flight C

 
Round 1Match for 16th place
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Austria5
 
 
 
 Iceland2
 
 Austria5
 
 
 
 Netherlands2
 
 Netherlands4.5
 
 
 Luxembourg2.5
 
Match for 18th place
 
 
 
 
 
 Iceland5
 
 
 Luxembourg2

Final standings

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

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  2. ^ Ohlson, Jörgen (July 1983). "EM herrar" [Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6. pp. 33–35. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  4. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  5. ^ Jacobs, Raymond (27 June 1983). "Ireland end long wait for success". The Glasgow Herald. p. 15. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
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