2015 European Amateur Team Championship

2015 European Amateur Team Championship
Official program cover
2015 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates9–13 July 2015
LocationHalmstad, Sweden
56°39′44″N 12°44′57″E / 56.662264°N 12.749291°E / 56.662264; 12.749291
Course(s)Halmstad Golf Club (North Course)
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length7,001 yards (6,402 m)
Field16 teams
96 players
Champion
 Scotland
Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest,
Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald,
Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme
Qualification round: 724 (+4)
Final match: 412–212
Location map
Halmstad Golf Club is located in Europe
Halmstad Golf Club
Halmstad Golf Club
Location in Europe
Halmstad Golf Club is located in Sweden
Halmstad Golf Club
Halmstad Golf Club
Location in Sweden
Halmstad Golf Club is located in Halland
Halmstad Golf Club
Halmstad Golf Club
Location in Halland County
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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

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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

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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

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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, Peter Launer Bæk, Martin Leth Simonsen, Niklas Nørgaard, Sixten Stemann Jensen, Morten Toft Hansen
 England Ashley Chesters, Nick Marsh, Jimmy Mullen, Ben Taylor, Sean Towndrow, Ashton Turner
 Finland Kim Koivu, Kristian Kulokorpi, Miki Kuronen, Mikko Lehtovuori, Lauri Ruuska, Linus Väisänen
 France Léonard Bem, Alexandre Daydou, Romain Langasque, Thomas Perrot, Antoine Rozner, Robin Sciot-Siergrist
 Germany Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Hurly Long, Maximilian Mehles, Jeremy Paul, Yannik Paul, Maximilian Rottluff
 Ireland Paul Dunne, Jack Hume, Jack Hurley, Dermot McElroy, Gavin Moynihan, Comac Sharvin
 Netherlands Philip Bootsma, Rowin Caron, Lars Keunen, Jeroen Krietemeijer, Lars van Meijel, Robbie van West
 Poland Jakub Dymeck, Mateusz Gradecki, Adrian Meronk, Alejandro Pedryc, Jan Szmidt Jr., Oskar Zaborowski
 Scotland Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald, Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme
 Spain Pep Anglès, Adri Arnaus, Iván Cantero, Mario Galiano, Scott Fernández, Jon Rahm
 Sweden Adam Blommé, Oskar Bergqvist, Tobias Edén, Marcus Kinhult, Fredrik Niléhn, Hannes Rönneblad

Other participating teams

Country
 Czech Republic
 Italy
 Switzerland
 Wales

Winners

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Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland and 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 Robin Sciot-Siergrist, France, and Morten Toft Hansen, Denmark with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of Rowin Caron, the Netherlands.

Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their seventh title, beating team Denmark in the final 412–212. 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

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Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Scotland
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Denmark
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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]

See also

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References

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  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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