2011 European Amateur Team Championship
Golf competition
Golf tournament
The 2011 European Amateur Team Championship took place 5–9 July at Oceânico Golf in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal on its Victoria Course.[1][2][3] It was the 29th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
Venue
The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004. In 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.[4]
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 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 were allowed to play 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.
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. Russia took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the leading teams
| Country | Players |
|---|---|
 Austria | Hamza Amin, Philipp Fendt, Tono Kromer, Lukas Nemecz, Manuel Trappel, Christoph Weninger |
 Belgium | Xavier Feyaerts, Thomas Pieters, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Julien Richelle, Kevin Hesbois, Nick Ver Elst |
 Denmark | Lucas Bjerregaard, Victor Henum, Mads Søgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Thomas Sørensen, Sebastian Cappelen |
 England | Stiggy Hodgson, Jack Senior, Andy Sullivan, Darren Wright, Dave Coupland, Steven Brown |
 Finland | Tapio Pulkkanen, Tuomas Salminen, Toni Hakula, Niclas Hellberg, Miro Veijalainen, Roope Kangas |
 France | Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun, Édouard España, Sébastien Gros, Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal |
 Germany | Benedict Staben, Moritz Lampert, Sebastien Kannler, Stephan Jäger, Marcel Schneider, Philipp Westermann |
 Iceland | Axel Bóasson, Arnar Hakonarson, Gudjonn Hilmarsson, Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Alfred Brynjar Kristinsson, Ólafur Loftsson |
 Ireland | Paul Cutler, Kevin Phelan, Alan Dunbar, Eoin Arthurs, Pat Murray, Paul Dunne |
 Italy | Filippo Berganaschi, Francesco Laporta, Mattia Miloro, Leonardo Motto, Niccolò Quintarelli, Filippo Zuchetti |
 Netherlands | Dylan Boshart, Bernard Geelkerken, Daan Huizing, Robin Kind, Frank Van Hoof, Willem Vork |
 Scotland | James Byrne, Ross Kellett, David Law, Kris Nicol, Greg Paterson, Michael Stewart |
 Spain | Scott Fernandez, Adrian Otaegui, Nacho Elvira, Antonio Hortal, Juan Francisco Sarasti, Oliver Mena |
 Sweden | Pontus Widegren, Sebastian Söderberg, Pontus Gad, Nils Florén, Robert S. Karlsson, Niclas Carlsson |
 Switzerland | Marc Dobias, Benjamim Rusch, Arthur Gabella, Edouard Amacher, Victor Doka, Marco Iten |
 Wales | Rhys Enoch, Oliver Farr, James Frazer, Rhys Pugh, Ben Westgate, Joe Vickery |
Other participating teams
| Country |
|---|
 Norway |
 Portugal |
 Russia |
 Slovakia |
Winners
Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Spain, with a 24-under-par score of 696. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing ninth in the qualifying round.
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Scott Fernandez, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 135, two strokes ahead of Adrián Otaegui, Spain and Thomas Pieters, Belgium.
Team France won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Switzerland in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.
Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Germany 4–3 in the bronze match.
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
| Bracket
| Final games
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Flight B
Bracket
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Flight C
| First round
| Second round
| Third round
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Final standings
| Place | Country |
|---|---|
 | France |
 | Switzerland |
 | Sweden |
| 4 | Germany |
| 5 | Spain |
| 6 | Scotland |
| 7 | Finland |
| 8 | Ireland |
| 9 | Wales |
| 10 | Austria |
| 11 | Denmark |
| 12 | Norway |
| 13 | Italy |
| 14 | Netherlands |
| 15 | England |
| 16 | Iceland |
| 17 | Portugal |
| 18 | Belgium |
| 19 | Slovakia |
| 20 | Russia |
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
- ^ Shareit (6 July 2011). "Portugal News, Algarve News, European Amateur Team Championship returns to the Algarve". Portugal Resident. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "EM-landslagen är uttagna" [European Championship teams nominated] (in Swedish). golf.se, Swedish Golf Federation. 8 June 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Team-EM der Herren in Portugal" [Men's European Team Championship in Portugal] (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Vilamoura (Victoria) - Algarve - Portugal, Dom Pedro Golf". Top 100 Golf Courses. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2011 - Oceânico Victoria, Portugal". European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "2011 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "2011 European Amateur Men's Team Championship" (PDF). European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
External links
- European Golf Association: Full results
