1959 European Amateur Team Championship

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1959 European Amateur Team ChampionshipTournament information

Dates| 22–27 June 1959
Location| Barcelona, Spain
41°34′12″N 2°03′18″E﻿ / ﻿41.570°N 2.055°E﻿ / 41.570; 2.055
Course(s)| Real Club de Golf El Prat
Organized by| European Golf Association
Format| 36 holes stroke play
round-robin system match play
Statistics
Par| 72
Length| 6,359 yards (5,815 m)
Field| 9 teams
circa 60 players
Champion
Sweden
Ola Bergqvist, Gustaf Adolf Bielke,
Gunnar Carlander, Per-Olof Johansson,
Göran Lindeblad, Bengt Möller,
Nils Odqvist (captain and substitute player),
Elis Werkell
Qualification round: 612 (+36)
Flight A matches: 5 points
Location map

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Location in Europe

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Location in the Province of Barcelona

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The 1959 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–27 June on the Real Club de Golf El Prat outside Barcelona, Spain. It was the first men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

## Format

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All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke-play, counting the four best scores out of up to six players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next four best teams formed flight B.

The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, three foursome games and six single games were played.

## Teams

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Nine nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country | Players

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France | Henri de Lamaze, Marius Bardana, Yves Caillol, Philippe Chassigny, Jean-Louis Dupont, Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue
Spain | Juan Antonio Andreu, Iván Maura, Enrigue Muro, Eduardo de la Riva, Fransisco Sanchiz, Ignacio Urguijo
Sweden | Ola Bergqvist, Gustaf Adolf Bielke, Gunnar Carlander, Per-Olof Johansson, Göran Lindeblad, Bengt Möller, Nils Odqvist,* Elis Werkell
West Germany | Hermann Ernst, Jost Burghartz, Werner Götz, Hans Lampert, Dietrich von Knoop, Hermann Tissies

* Note: Odqvist entered the tournament as non-playing captain, but since Lindeblad and Möller was not able to play on June 25th in Sweden's match against Spain and Bielke and Carlander was not able to play on June 26th in Sweden's match against West Germany, due to food poisoning, Odqist played in these two matches.

Other participating teams

Country

Belgium
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Switzerland

## Winners

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Team Sweden won the championship, earning 5 points in flight A. Team France finished second, ahead of host country Spain.

Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Dietrich von Knoop, West Germany, with a score of 2-over-par 146. Henri de Lamaze, France, shot a new course record in the second round, with a score of 69 over 18 holes at the El Prat course.

## Results

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Qualification rounds

Team standings

| Place | Country | Score | To par

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1 |  Sweden | 304-308=612 | +36
2 |  France | 320-295=615 | +39
3 |  West Germany | 311-311=622 | +46
4 |  Spain | 319-305=624 | +48
T5 |  Belgium | 315-319=634 | +58
Switzerland | 315-319=634
7 |  Italy | 321-316=637 | +61
8 |  Netherlands | 327-319=646 | +70
9 |  Portugal | 335-343=678 | +102

Individual leader

| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par

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1 | Dietrich von Knoop |  West Germany | 74-72=146 | +2

Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Team matches

| 2 |  Sweden |  Spain | 0

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6 | 3
2 |  France |  West Germany | 0

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5.5 | 3.5
| 1 |  Sweden |  West Germany | 1

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4.5 | 4.5
2 |  France |  Spain | 0

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5 | 4
| 2 |  Sweden |  France | 0

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5 | 4
2 |  Spain |  West Germany | 0

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7 | 2

Team standings

Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points

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Sweden | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15.5–11.5 | 5
France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14.5–12.5 | 4
Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14–13 | 2
West Germany | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12–15 | 1

Flight B

Team matches

| 2 |  Belgium |  Netherlands | 0

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8.5 | 0.5
2 |  Italy |  Switzerland | 0

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5.5 | 3.5
| 2 |  Belgium |  Switzerland | 0

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5.5 | 3.5
2 |  Italy |  Netherlands | 0

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6 | 3
| 2 |  Italy |  Belgium | 0

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8.5 | 0.5
2 |  Switzerland |  Netherlands | 0

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7 | 2

Team standings

Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points

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Italy | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20–7 | 6
Belgium | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14.5–12.5 | 4
Switzerland | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14–13 | 2
Netherlands | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21.5–5.5 | 0

Final standings

Place | Country

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|  Sweden
|  France
|  Spain
4 |  West Germany
5 |  Italy
6 |  Belgium
7 |  Switzerland
8 |  Netherlands
9 |  Portugal

Sources:[1][2][3][4]

## See also

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* 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

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1. ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 153–158. ISBN 9172603283.
2. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007.
3. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 18 December 2017.
4. ^ "Sverige första Europamästaren" [Sweden first European Champions]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6\. August 1959. pp. 2–5. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

## External links

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* European Golf Association: Full results

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