2018 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates10–14 July 2018
LocationBad Saarow, Germany
52°14′20″N 14°01′44″E / 52.239°N 14.029°E / 52.239; 14.029
Course(s)Golf Club Bad Saarow (Faldo Course Berlin)
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length7,108 yards (6,500 m)
Field16 teams
96 players
Champion
 Finland
Matias Honkala, Jonatan Jolkkonen,
Santeri Lehesmaa, Veeti Mähönen,
Aleksi Myllymäki, Sami Välimäki
Qualification round: 718 (−2)
Final match: 5–2
Location Map
Bad Saarow CC is located in Europe
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Location in Europe
Bad Saarow CC is located in Germany
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Location in Germany
Bad Saarow CC is located in Brandenburg
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The 2018 European Amateur Team Championship took place 10–14 July at the Bad Saarow Golf Club, on its Faldo Course Berlin, It was the 35th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting course, designed by Sir Nick Faldo, located in Bad Saarow, Germany, 50 kilometres south-east of the city center of Berlin, opened in 1996.[1] It had previously hosted the 2000 Eisenhower Trophy and Espirito Santo Trophy.

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Format

Each team consisted of six players, playing two rounds of an opening stroke-play qualifying competition over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.[2]

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 played 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.

Teams

16 nation teams contested the event. Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Serbia qualified by finishing first, second, third and fourth at the 2017 Division 2. Serbia, taking part for the first time, qualified since last year's silver medalist Norway did not take part. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Austria Luca Denk, Gerold Folk, Lukas Lipold, Oliver Rath, Niklas Regner, Maximilian Steinlechner
 Denmark John Axelsen, Gustav Frimodt, Andreas Hillersborg Sorensen, Nicolai Højgaard, Rasmus Højgaard, Morten Toft Hansen
 England Todd Clements, David Hague, Matthew Jordan, Gian-Marco Petrozzi, Nick Poppleton, Mitch Waite
 Finland Matias Honkala, Jonatan Jolkkonen, Santeri Lehesmaa, Veeti Mähönen, Aleksi Myllymäki, Sami Välimäki
 France Edgar Catherine, Jeremy Gandon, Frédéric Lacroix, Adrien Pendaries, Hubert Tisserand, Victor Veyret
 Germany Jannik de Bruyn, Hurly Long, Marc Hammer, Falko Hanisch, Michael Hirmer, Timo Vahlenkamp
 Ireland Robin Dawson, Alex Gleeson, Rowan Lester, John Murphy, Caolan Rafferty, Jonathan Yates
 Italy Alberto Castagnara, Giulio Castagnara, Francesco Donaggio, Giovanni Manzoni, Stefano Mazzoli, Lorenzo Scalise
 Netherlands Dario Antonisse, Koen Kouwenaar, Stan Kraai, Peter Melching, Nordin Van Tilburg, Vince Van Veen
 Scotland Stuart Easton, Ryan Lumsden, Euan McIntosh, Sandy Scott, Jamie Stewart, Euan Walker
 Spain Alejandro del Rey, Manuel Elvira, Ángel Hidalgo, Jorge Maicas, Adrián Mata, Victor Pastor
 Sweden Oliver Gillberg, David Nyfjäll, Pontus Nyholm, Jesper Svensson, Tim Widing, Ludvig Åberg

Other participating teams

Country
 Czech Republic
 Iceland
 Portugal
 Serbia

Winners

Tied leaders of the opening 36-hole competition were team Sweden and team England, each with a 27-under-par score of 693, eleven strokes ahead of team Denmark. Sweden earned first place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host country Germany, on fourth place, was another stroke behind.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Gian-Marco Petrozzi, England, with a 12-under-par score of 132, two strokes ahead of three players.

Team Finland won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating eleven-times-champion team England in the final 5–2. Team Finland finished 16th and last at the 2016 championship and was moved to the second division for 2017. They came back to the championship for 2018, finishing 8th at the initial qualifying competition and made the quarter-finals by a single stroke.

Denmark earned the bronze on third place, after beating host country Germany 5–2 in the bronze match.

Italy, Portugal and Serbia placed 14th, 15th and 16th and was moved to Division 2 for 2019, to be replaced by Belgium, Slovenia, and Wales, who finished first, second, and third respectively in the 2018 Division 2.[3][4]

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  England
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Denmark
4  Germany
5  France
6  Spain
7  Sweden
8  Scotland
9  Netherlands
10  Ireland
11  Iceland
12  Czech Republic
13  Austria
14  Italy
15  Portugal
16  Serbia

Sources:[3][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Faldo Course Berlin" (in German). Golf Club Bad Saarow. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Golflandslag siktar på guld i lag-EM" [National golf teams aim for gold at the European Amateur Team Championships] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Finland win The European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Belgium win The European Amateur Team Championship, Division 2". European Golf Association. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2018 - Faldo Course Berlin im A-ROSA Scharmützelsee, Germany". European Golf Association. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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