1971 European Amateur Team Championship
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The 1971 European Amateur Team Championship took place 24–27 June at Golf Club de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was the seventh men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
During three practice days before the tournament, the weather was warm and sunny, but on the first day of competition, play was interrupted several times due to heavy rain.
Format
All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to six players, counted the five best scores 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. Each of the four best placed teams were drawn to play the quarter-final against one of the teams in the flight placed in the next four positions. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single matches after the morning foursome matches.
The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B to play similar knock-out play and the three teams placed 15–17 formed Flight C to meet each other, to decide their final positions.
Teams
17 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of five players.
Players in the leading teams
Country | Players |
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![]() | Nils Elsøe Jensen, Kjeld Friche, Klaus Hove, Henry Knudsen, John Nielsen, Hans Stenderup |
![]() | Michael Bonallack, Rodney Foster, Warren Humphreys, Michael King, Geoff Marks, David Marsh |
![]() | Didier Charmat, Jean-Charles Desbordes, Alexis Godillot, Roger Lagarde, Henri de Lamaze |
![]() | Roddy Carr, Tom Craddock, Brian Hoey, Raymond Kane, Brian Malone, Martin O'Brien |
![]() | Stefano Cimatti, L. Fabrini, Franco Gigliarelli, Delio Lovato, Lorenzo Silva, Carlo Tadini |
![]() | Erik Dønnestad, Olaf Eie, Yngve Eriksen, Johan Horn, Svend Knutsen, Asbjørn Ramnefjell |
![]() | Charlie Green, Matt Lygate, Scott Macdonald, George MacGregor, Alistair Thomson, Hugh Stuart |
![]() | Álvaro Arana, Santiago Fernández, José Gancedo, José Luis Noguer, Roman Taya, Javier Viladomiu |
![]() | Olle Dahlgren, Hans Hedjerson, Claes Jöhncke, Johan Jöhncke, Gunnar Mueller, Jan Rube |
![]() | Thomas Fortmann, Yves Hofstetter, Martin Kessler, Uli Lamm, Peter Müller, Jürg Pesko |
![]() | David Adams, Simon Cox, Ted Davies, Hew Squirell, Jeff Toye, John Povall |
![]() | Freidrich Janssen, Hans-Günther Heinrigs, Peter Jochums, Jan Müller, Veit Pagel, Jürgen Weghmann |
Other participating teams
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Winners
Defending champions England won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Scotland 5–2 in the final. Team Norway, for the first time on the podium, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4–3 in the bronze match.
Individual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Martin Kessler, Switzerland, Klaus Nierlich, Austria and Hugh Stuart, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 1-over-par 73. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.
Results
Qualification round
Team standings
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score. | Individual leaders
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
Bracket
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Flight B
Elimination matches
| Match for 13th place
Match for 11th place
Match for 9th place
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Flight C
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Final standings
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Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 153–158. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "European Amateur Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Grattis Norge till EM-framgången, Svenskt bottennapp med tiondeplats" [Congratulations Norway for European Championship success, Swedish failure with tenth place]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. August 1971. pp. 23–27. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ Jacobs, Raymond (30 June 1971). "Lygate only singles winner as Scots are beaten in final". The Glasgow Herald. p. 5. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
External links
- European Golf Association: Full results