2005 Seve Trophy

Dates	22–25 September
Venue	Wynyard Golf Club
Location	County Durham, England
Captains	Colin Montgomerie (GB&I) José María Olazábal (Europe)
16½ 11½
Great Britain and Ireland wins the Seve Trophy

The 2005 Seve Trophy took place 22–25 September at Wynyard Golf Club, in North East England. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Colin Montgomerie, with the captain for Continental Europe being José María Olazábal. The overall tournament host was Seve Ballesteros as he was unable to compete through injury. The trophy was retained for the second time by Great Britain and Ireland.

Format

The format remained the same as in 2003 with the teams competing over four days with five fourball matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points were available with 14½ points required for victory.

Each member of the winner team received €125,000, the losing team €75,000 each, giving a total prize fund of €2,000,000.^[1]

Teams

The teams were made up of the captain, the leading four players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of Monday 5 September 2005, the leading four players (not otherwise qualified) from the European Order of Merit after the Linde German Masters (11 September 2005), and one captain's pick.^[2]

Team GB&I
Name	Country	Qualification
Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	Playing captain
Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	World rankings
David Howell	England	World rankings
Paul McGinley	Ireland	World rankings
Graeme McDowell	Northern Ireland	World rankings
Nick Dougherty	England	European points
Stephen Dodd	Wales	European points
Ian Poulter	England	European points
Bradley Dredge	Wales	European points
Paul Casey	England	Captain's pick

Team Continental Europe
Name	Country	Qualification
José María Olazábal	Spain	Playing Captain
Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	World rankings
Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	World rankings
Henrik Stenson	Sweden	World rankings
Niclas Fasth	Sweden	World rankings
Peter Hanson	Sweden	European points
Maarten Lafeber	Netherlands	European points
Jean-François Remésy	France	European points
Emanuele Canonica	Italy	European points
Thomas Levet	France	Captain's pick

Day one

Thursday, 22 September 2005

Fourball

	Results
Poulter/Dougherty	2 up	Bjørn/Stenson
Montgomerie/McDowell	4 & 2	Lafeber/Canonica
Dodd/Dredge	4 & 2	Jiménez/Olazábal
Howell/Casey	3 & 2	Fasth/Hanson
Harrington/McGinley	1 up	Remésy/Levet
1	Session	4
1	Overall	4

Source:^[3]

Day two

Friday, 23 September 2005

Fourball

	Results
McGinley/Harrington	3 & 1	Fasth/Hanson
Casey/Howell	5 & 4	Jiménez/Olazábal
Montgomerie/McDowell	3 & 2	Bjørn/Stenson
Dodd/Dredge	2 up	Lafeber/Canonica
Dougherty/Poulter	5 & 4	Remésy/Levet
3	Session	2
4	Overall	6

Source:^[4]

Day three

Saturday, 24 September 2005

Morning greensomes

	Results
McGinley/Harrington	3 & 2	Levet/Olazábal
Howell/Casey	2 up	Fasth/Hanson
Dodd/McDowell	halved	Jiménez/Canonica
Poulter/Dougherty	halved	Bjørn/Stenson
3	Session	1
7	Overall	7

Source:^[5]

Afternoon foursomes

	Results
McGinley/Harrington	halved	Levet/Remésy
Howell/Casey	2 & 1	Jiménez/Canonica
Dredge/Poulter	1 up	Fasth/Stenson
Montgomerie/Dougherty	1 up	Bjørn/Lafeber
2½	Session	1½
9½	Overall	8½

Source:^[6]

Day four

Sunday, 25 September 2005

Singles

	Results
Colin Montgomerie	2 & 1	José María Olazábal
Paul Casey	4 & 3	Niclas Fasth
Ian Poulter	halved	Peter Hanson
David Howell	6 & 5	Thomas Bjørn
Stephen Dodd	2 & 1	Jean-François Remésy
Bradley Dredge	2 & 1	Thomas Levet
Graeme McDowell	5 & 4	Maarten Lafeber
Paul McGinley	1 up	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Pádraig Harrington	2 & 1	Emanuele Canonica
Nick Dougherty	halved	Henrik Stenson
7	Session	3
16½	Overall	11½

Source:^[7]

References

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site

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