1997 European Amateur Team Championship

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1997 European Amateur Team Championship

Aerial View of Portmarnock Golf Club and peninsula

Tournament information
Dates| 25–29 June 1997
Location| Dublin, Ireland
53°24′25″N 6°07′26″W﻿ / ﻿53.407°N 6.124°W﻿ / 53.407; -6.124
Course(s)| Portmarnock Golf Club, Championship Course
Organized by| European Golf Association
Format| Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par| 72
Length| 7,097 yards (6,489 m)
Field| 22 teams
132 players
Champion
Spain
Juan Carlos Agüero, Sergio García,
José Manuel Lara, Raúl Quirós,
Oscar Sanchez, Juan Vizcaya
Qualification round: 785 (+65)
Final match: 4.5–2.5
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The 1997 European Amateur Team Championship took place 25–29 June at Portmarnock Golf Club in Portmarnock, County Dublin, 10 kilometres north-east of the city center of Dublin, Ireland. It was the 20th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

## Venue

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Main article: Portmarnock Golf Club

There were strong winds on the links course during the tournament.

View of 14th, 15th and 16th holes at Portmarnock Golf Club

## Format

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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.

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 were 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. 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 and the six teams placed 17–22 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

## Teams

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A record number of 22 nation teams contested the event. Teams representing Croatia and Slovakia both took part in the championship for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country  | Players

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Denmark | Søren Hansen, Klaus Molholm, Christian Kjaergaard, Lars Storm, Mads Vibe-Hastrup, Peter Thomsen
England | Matthew Blackey, Matt Carver, Justin Rose, Shaun Webster, Robert Wiggins, Gary Wolstenholme
France | Olivier David, Grégory Havret, François Illouz, Georges Plumet, Christophe Ravetto, Fabrice Stolear
Germany | Florian Bruhns, Tobias Dier, Felix Lubenau, Philip Neels, Benjamin Schlichting, Stephan Wittkop,
Iceland | Kristinn Bjarnarsson, Thorsteinn Hallgrimsson, Örn Aevar Hjartarsson, Thordur Olafsson, Björgvin Sigurbergsson, Björgvin Thorstensson
Ireland | Richard Coughlan, Jody Fanagan, Noel Fox, Peter Lawrie, Garth McGimpsey, Keith Nolan
Netherlands | Marten van den Berg, Rutger Buschow, Niels Kraay, Maarten Lafeber, Ralph Miller, Vincent Rotenburg
Scotland | Michael Brooks, Alastair Forsyth, Barclay Howard, Graham Rankin, Craig Watson, Steven Young
Spain | Juan Carlos Agüero, Sergio García, José Manuel Lara, Raúl Quirós, Oscar Sanchez, Juan Vizcaya
Sweden | Joachim Bäckström, Mattias Eliasson, Peter Hanson, Daniel Olsson, Henrik Stenson, Jonas Torines
Wales | Jamie Donaldson, Nigel Edwards, David Park, Mark Smith, Yestin Taylor, Mark Pilkington

Other participating teams

Country

Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
Italy
Norway
Portugal
Slovakia
Switzerland

## Winners

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The host nation Ireland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 39-over-par score of 759, 24 strokes ahead of defending champions Scotland on 2nd place, while the difference between the 2nd and 8th placed teams were 17 strokes. Four of the Irish players finished within the top nine individually. For the first time since 1975, eight-time-winners England, with future professional major-winner Justin Rose in the team, did not make it to the quarter-finals, finishing ninth.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Keith Nolan, Ireland, with a 7-over-par score of 149, one stroke ahead of fellow country man Noel Fox.

In the windy conditions on the second day of the stroke-play competition, 109 players in the 132-man-field failed to broke 80, including future European Tour winners Henrik Stenson, Søren Hansen, Sergio Garcia, Maarten Lafeber, Peter Hanson, Grégory Havret, Jamie Donaldson and Martin Wiegele.

Team Spain won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating defending champions team Scotland in the final 4.5–2.5.

Host nation Ireland earned the bronze on third place, after beating Sweden 5.5–1.5 in the bronze match.

## Results

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Qualification round

Team standings

| Place  | Country  | Score  | To par

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1  |  Ireland | 375-384=759  | +39
2  |  Scotland | 380-403=783  | +63
3  |  Sweden | 387-397=784  | +64
4  |  Spain | 387-398=785  | +65
5  |  Germany | 385-408=793  | +73
6  |  Denmark | 391-403=794  | +74
7  |  Iceland | 396-402=798  | +78
8  |  Netherlands | 398-402=800  | +80
9  |  England | 397-406=803  | +83
T10  |  Wales *  | 400-404=804  | +84
France | 392-412=804
12  |  Finland | 393-414=807  | +87
13  |  Italy | 395-413=808  | +88
14  |  Belgium | 401-410=811  | +91
15  |  Norway | 402-411=813  | +93
16  |  Austria | 407-426=833  | +113
17  |  Switzerland | 414-420=834  | +114
18  |  Portugal | 421-432=853  | +133
19  |  Czech Republic | 441-446=887  | +167
20  |  Estonia | 465-468=933  | +213
21  |  Croatia | 490-505=995  | +275
22  |  Slovakia | 516-539=1055  | +335

* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.

Individual leaders

| Place  | Player  | Country  | Score  | To par

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1  | Keith Nolan |  Ireland | 70-79=149  | +5
2  | Noel Fox |  Ireland | 76-74=150  | +6
T3  | Peter Lawrie |  Ireland | 75-76=151  | +7
Raul Quiros |  Spain | 75-76=151
T5  | Tobias Dier |  Germany | 77-77=154  | +10
Alastair Forsyth |  Scotland | 75-79=154
Mikko Manerus |  Finland | 74-80=154
Garth McGimpsey |  Ireland | 78-76=154
Jonas Torines |  Sweden | 77-77=154

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

Flight A

Bracket

| Quarter finals| | Semi finals| | Final

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|  Scotland| 5.5

|  Iceland| 1.5 |

|  Scotland| 4.5

| |  Sweden| 2.5 |

|  Sweden| 5

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|  Denmark| 2 |

|  Spain| 4.5

| |  Scotland| 2.5

|  Spain| 4.5

|  |

|  Germany| 2.5 |

|  Spain| 4.5

| |  Ireland| 2.5 | | Bronze match

|  Ireland| 6

| |

|  Netherlands| 1 |

|  Ireland| 5.5

|  Sweden| 1.5

| Elimination matches| | Match for 5th place

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|  |  |  |  |  |

|  | |

|  Denmark| 4.5

|  Iceland| 2.5 |

|  Netherlands| 4

| |  Denmark| 3

|  Netherlands| 5.5

|  Germany| 1.5 |

| Match for 7th place

|  Germany| 5

|  Iceland| 2

Final games

|  Spain |  Scotland

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4.5  | 2.5
S. Garcia / O. Sanchez 3 & 2 | G. Rankin / C. Watson
J.M. Lara / R. Quiros | B. Howard / S. Young 2 & 1
Sergio Garcia | Steven Young 7 & 6
Oscar Sanchez AS * | Graham Rankin AS *
Juan Carlos Aguero 1 hole | Michael Brooks
Raul Quiros 1 hole | Alastair Forsyth
José Manuel Lara 2 & 1 | Craig Watson

* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

First round elimination matches

|  England |  Austria

|

4  | 1
Finland |  Italy

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3  | 2
France |  Belgium

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4  | 1
Wales |  Norway

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5  | 0

Second round elimination matches

|  France |  Wales

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4  | 1
England |  Finland

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4  | 1
Norway |  Belgium

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3  | 2
Austria |  Italy

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3.5  | 1.5

Match for 15th place

|  Belgium |  Italy

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3  | 2

Match for 13th place

Norway |  Austria

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3  | 2

Match for 11th place

Wales |  Finland

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3  | 2

Match for 9th place

France |  England

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4  | 1

Flight C

First round elimination matches

Estonia |  Croatia

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4  | 1
Czech Republic |  Slovakia

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5  | 0

Second round elimination matches

Switzerland |  Estonia

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4.5  | 0.5
Portugal |  Czech Republic

|

5  | 0

Match for 21st place

Croatia |  Slovakia

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5  | 0

Match for 19th place

Czech Republic |  Estonia

|

5  | 0

Match for 17th place

Switzerland |  Portugal

|

3  | 2

Final standings

Place  | Country

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|  Spain
|  Scotland
|  Ireland
4  |  Sweden
5  |  Netherlands
6  |  Denmark
7  |  Germany
8  |  Iceland
9  |  France
10  |  England
11  |  Wales
12  |  Finland
13  |  Norway
14  |  Austria
15  |  Belgium
16  |  Italy
17  |  Switzerland
18  |  Portugal
19  |  Czech Republic
20  |  Estonia
21  |  Croatia
22  |  Slovakia

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]

See also

* 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 (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
2. ^ "EM herrar" [Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8\. August 1997. pp. 88, 92. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
3. ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
4. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 1997 - Portmarnock GC, Ireland". European Golf Association. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
5. ^ Crockett, Scott (26 June 1997). "Scotland's Young refuses to be blown off course at Portmarnock, Irish out in front as new boys fail to master wind". The Herald. p. 17. Retrieved 13 April 2021.

## External links

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