1975 European Ladies' Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates3–6 July 1975
LocationParis, France
48°51′07″N 2°11′28″E / 48.852°N 2.191°E / 48.852; 2.191
Course(s)Golf de Saint-Cloud
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
Format18 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par73
Field13 teams
circa 65 players
Champion
 France
Martine Cochet, Odile Garaialde,
Martine Giraud, Catherine Lacoste de Prado,
Anne Marie Palli,
Marie-Christine Ubald-Bocquet
Qualification round: 308 (+16)
Final match 41⁄2–21⁄2
Location Map
Golf de Saint-Cloud is located in Europe
Golf de Saint-Cloud
Golf de Saint-Cloud
Location in Europe
Golf de Saint-Cloud is located in France
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Golf de Saint-Cloud
Location in France
Golf de Saint-Cloud is located in Île-de-France (region)
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Location in Île-de-France

The 1975 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 3–6 July at Golf de Saint-Cloud in Paris, France. It was the ninth women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting club had previously hosted the men's professional Open de France ten times. It purchased the estate, situated in Garches, 12 kilometres west of the city center of Paris, in 1911. Harry Colt designed the first 18-hole course, the Green Course, inaugurated in 1913. A second 18-hole course, the Yellow Course, was completed in 1930.[1]

Format

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to five players, counted the four best scores for each team.

The six 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 teams placed first and second were directly qualified for the semi-finals. The team placed third was drawn to play the quarter-final against the team placed sixth and the teams placed fourth and fifth met each other. 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 games after the morning foursome games. Games all square after 18 holes were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The four teams placed 7–10 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B and the three teams placed 11–13 formed Flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

13 nation teams contested the event. It was the same number of teams and the same nations represented as at the previous championship two years earlier. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.

Players in the leading teams

CountryPlayers
 England Ann Irvin, Anne Stant, Bridget Jackson, Julia Greenhalgh, Beverly Huke, Lynne Harrold, Jenny Lee Smith
 France Martine Cochet, Odile Semelaigne-Garaïalde, Martine Gajan-Giraud, Catherine Lacoste de Prado, Anne Marie Palli, Marie-Christine Ubald-Bocquet
 Ireland Elaine Bradshaw, Mary Gorry, Mary MacKenna, Claire Nesbitt Robinson, Vivian Singleton
 Scotland Suzanne Cadden, Lesley Hope, Sandra Needham, Joan Smith, Maureen Walker, Muriel Thomson
 Spain Ana Monfort de Albox, Elena Corominas, Marta Figueras-Dotti, Emma Villacieros de García-Ogara, Cristina Marsans, Carmen Maestre de Pellon
 SwedenMonica Andersson, Birgit Forsman, Hillevi Hagström, Ulla Lindskog, Anna Skanse Dönnestad, Liv Wollin
  Switzerland D. Caillat, Carole Charbonnier, M. Günthard, S. Kessler, Marie Christine de Werra
 Wales Audrey Briggs, Ann Johnson, Pam Light Chugg, Vicki Rawlings, Tegwen Perkins, Pamela Whitley Valentine
 West Germany Marietta Gütermann, Susanne Schultz, Jeannette Weghmann, Barbara Böhm, Marion Thannhäuser

Other participating teams

Country
 Belgium
 Denmark
 Italy
 Netherlands

Winners

Team Ireland, a combined team from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, won the opening 18-hole competition, with a score of 10 over par 302, one stroke ahead of team Scotland. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter-finals, finishing eight.

Individual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Sandra Needham, England, and Liv Wollin, Sweden, each with a score of 3-under-par 70, two shots ahead of Catherine Lacoste de Prado, France. Wollin previously led the individual competition in the 1963 championship 12 years earlier and came back in 1975 after being absent in 1973 due to the birth of her child.[2] Lacoste made her second appearance in the championship, being absent in 1965 and 1967 due to participation in the U.S. Women's Open, which she won in 1967. Wollin and Lacoste came to meet in the singles in the quarter-final between Sweden and France. Wollin won the game 3 and 2, but, champions to be, France won the match 4–3.

Host nation France advanced to the final, beat team Spain 41⁄2–21⁄2 and earned their fourth title. Team Ireland, for the first time on the podium, beat Scotland 4–3 in the third place match.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Final standings

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

Sources:[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Un peu d'histoire, Un site historique" [Club history, History and heritage] (in French). Golf de Saint Cloud. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 Ohlson, Jörgen (July 1975). "Liv etta i Europa "Min bästa tävling"" [Liv Number one in Europe "My best tournament"]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 185. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  4. ↑ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "Scottish women bid for a double". The Glasgow Herald. 3 July 1975. p. 17. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Scots in second place". The Glasgow Herald. 4 July 1975. p. 23. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Spain and France through". The Glasgow Herald. 5 July 1975. p. 16. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Women's title for France". The Glasgow Herald. 7 July 1975. p. 17. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  11. ↑ Hennesy, John (4 July 1975). "Seventh is the summit of English ambition". The Times (London, England. p. 11.
  12. ↑ Hennesy, John (7 July 1975). "France regain European women's title". The Times (London, England. p. 6.
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