2021 European Amateur Team Championship

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2021 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates6–10 July 2021
LocationCaldes de Malavella, Spain
41°51′25″N 2°45′47″E / 41.857°N 2.763°E / 41.857; 2.763
Course(s)PGA Catalunya
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par71
Field13 teams
78 players
Champion
 Denmark
Christoffer Bring, Hamish Brown,
Sebastian Friedrichsen, August Thor Høst,
Frederik Kjettrup, Søren Broholt Lind
Qualification round: 707 (−3)
Final match: 512–112
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The 2021 European Amateur Team Championship took place 6–10 July at PGA Catalunya in Spain. It was the 38th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.[1] The event was originally intended to be played at Vasatorp Golf Club in Sweden but was moved because of travel restriction concerns.[1]

Format[edit]

Each team consisted of six players. On the first two days each player played 18 holes of stroke play each day. The lowest five scores from each team’s six players counted to the team total each day.[2]

The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the following 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. Extra holes were played in games that were all square after 18 holes. However, if the result of the team match was already decided, games were declared halved.[3]

The teams outside the top eight in the stroke-play stage formed flight B, also played knock-out match-play, but with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

The three last placed nation teams are normally moved to the Division 2 championship for next year. However, because of the reduced format of the championship due to COVID 19-restrictions, no nations were relegated.[4]

Teams[edit]

13 national teams contested the event. England, Scotland and Wales did not compete.[1]

Country Players
 Austria Christoph Bleier, Luca Denk, Maximilian Lechner, Lukas Pany, Namu Sarmini, Maximilian Steinlechner
 Belgium Liam Bentein, Matthis Besard, Jean de Wouters d'Oplinter, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, James Meyer de Beco, Max Peerbooms
 Denmark Christoffer Bring, Hamish Brown, Sebastian Friedrichsen, August Thor Høst, Frederik Kjettrup, Søren Broholt Lind
 France Clément Charmasson, Tom Gueant, Paul Margolis, Nicolas Muller, Julien Sale, Tom Vaillant
 Germany Nick Bachem, Jannik De Bruyn, Wolfgang Glawe, Marc Hammer, Matti Schmid, Timo Vahlenkamp
 Iceland Hlynur Bergsson, Sverrir Haraldsson, Aron Snær Júlíusson, Kristófer Karl Karlsson, Hákon Örn Magnússon, Dagbjartur Sigurbrandsson
 Ireland Marc Boucher, Hugh Foley, Matthew Mcclean, Robert Moran, Mark Power, Caolan Rafferty
 Italy Pietro Bovari, Riccardo Bregoli, Davide Buchi, Filippo Celli, Gregorio De Leo, Giovanni Manzoni
 Netherlands Dario Antonisse, Bob Geurts, Jerry Ji, Benjamin Reuter, Kiet Van Der Weele, Nordin Van Tilburg
 Portugal Vasco Alves, Pedro Clare, Daniel Costa, Pedro Cruz Silva, Pedro Lencart, Joâo Pinto
 Spain Alvaro Hernández Cabezuela, Eugenio Chacarra, Luis Masaveu, Joel Moscatel, Álvaro Mueller-Baumgart, David Puig
 Sweden Ludvig Åberg, Gustav Andersson, David Nyfjäll, Pontus Nyholm, Hugo Townsend, Adam Wallin
 Switzerland Loïc Ettlin, Robert Foley, Nicola Gerhardsen, Mauro Gilardi, Cédric Gugler, Ronan Kleu

Winners[edit]

Host nation Spain led the opening 36-hole stroke-play competition with a 17-under-par score of 693, four strokes ahead of Sweden with defending champion team Germany in third place a further four strokes behind.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Eugenio Chacarra, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 133, one stroke ahead of Pontus Nyholm, Sweden and Jean de Wouters d'Oplinter, Belgium.

Team Denmark won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team France in the final 512–112.

Team Belgium earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 6–1 in the bronze match.

Results[edit]

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Denmark
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Belgium
4  Spain
5  Austria
6  Germany
7  Netherlands
8  Sweden
9  Italy
10  Ireland
11  Switzerland
12  Portugal
13  Iceland

Source:[2][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Preview: European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Day 1 summary European Amateur Team Championships". European Golf Association. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Lag-EM så funkar det" [The European Amateur Team Championship, how it works] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Preview: 2022 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. 3 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. ^ "2021 European Amateur Team Championship - Results". European Golf Association. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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