1971 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates24–27 June 1971
LocationLausanne, Switzerland
46°33′40″N 6°40′34″E / 46.561°N 6.676°E / 46.561; 6.676
Course(s)Golf Club de Lausanne
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 18 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length6,885 yards (6,296 m)
Field17 teams
circa 102 players
Champion
 England
Michael Bonallack,
Rodney Foster, Warren Humphreys
Michael King, Geoff Marks, David Marsh
Qualification round: 368 (+13)
Final: 4.5–2.5
Location Map
Golf Club de Lausanne is located in Europe
Golf Club de Lausanne
Golf Club de Lausanne
Location in Europe
Golf Club de Lausanne is located in Switzerland
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Location in Switzerland

The 1971 European Amateur Team Championship took place 24–27 June at Golf Club de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was the seventh men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

During three practice days before the tournament, the weather was warm and sunny, but on the first day of competition, play was interrupted several times due to heavy rain.

Format

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to six players, counted the five best scores 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. Each of the four best placed teams were drawn to play the quarter-final against one of the teams in the flight placed in the next four positions. 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 matches after the morning foursome matches.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B to play similar knock-out play and the three teams placed 15–17 formed Flight C to meet each other, to decide their final positions.

Teams

17 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of five players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Denmark Nils Elsøe Jensen, Kjeld Friche, Klaus Hove, Henry Knudsen, John Nielsen, Hans Stenderup
 England Michael Bonallack, Rodney Foster, Warren Humphreys, Michael King, Geoff Marks, David Marsh
 France Didier Charmat, Jean-Charles Desbordes, Alexis Godillot, Roger Lagarde, Henri de Lamaze
 Ireland Roddy Carr, Tom Craddock, Brian Hoey, Raymond Kane, Brian Malone, Martin O'Brien
 Italy Stefano Cimatti, L. Fabrini, Franco Gigliarelli, Delio Lovato, Lorenzo Silva, Carlo Tadini
 Norway Erik Dønnestad, Olaf Eie, Yngve Eriksen, Johan Horn, Svend Knutsen, Asbjørn Ramnefjell
 Scotland Charlie Green, Matt Lygate, Scott Macdonald, George MacGregor, Alistair Thomson, Hugh Stuart
 Spain Álvaro Arana, Santiago Fernández, José Gancedo, José Luis Noguer, Roman Taya, Javier Viladomiu
 Sweden Olle Dahlgren, Hans Hedjerson, Claes Jöhncke, Johan Jöhncke, Gunnar Mueller, Jan Rube
  Switzerland Thomas Fortmann, Yves Hofstetter, Martin Kessler, Uli Lamm, Peter Müller, Jürg Pesko
 Wales David Adams, Simon Cox, Ted Davies, Hew Squirell, Jeff Toye, John Povall
 West Germany Freidrich Janssen, Hans-Günther Heinrigs, Peter Jochums, Jan Müller, Veit Pagel, Jürgen Weghmann

Other participating teams

Country
 Austria
 Belgium
 Czechoslovakia
 Finland
 Netherlands

Winners

Defending champions England won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Scotland 5–2 in the final. Team Norway, for the first time on the podium, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4–3 in the bronze match.

Individual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Martin Kessler, Switzerland, Klaus Nierlich, Austria and Hugh Stuart, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 1-over-par 73. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Flight C

Final standings

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

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 153–158. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "European Amateur Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  4. ↑ "Grattis Norge till EM-framgången, Svenskt bottennapp med tiondeplats" [Congratulations Norway for European Championship success, Swedish failure with tenth place]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. August 1971. pp. 23–27. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Jacobs, Raymond (30 June 1971). "Lygate only singles winner as Scots are beaten in final". The Glasgow Herald. p. 5. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
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