1971 European Ladies' Team Championship
The clubhouse and 18th green at Ganton Golf Club
Tournament information
Dates30 June – 3 July 1971
LocationGanton, North Yorkshire, England
54°11′18″N 0°29′46″W / 54.1882°N 0.4962°W / 54.1882; -0.4962
Course(s)Ganton Golf Club
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
Format18 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par75
Length6,289 yards (5,751 m)
Field14 teams
circa 70 players
Champion
 England
Sally Barber, Mary Everard, Julia Greenhalgh,
Ann Irvin, Dinah Oxley, Mickey Walker
Qualification round: 318 (+18)
Final match: 5–2
Location Map
Location in Europe
Location on the British Isles
Location in England

The 1971 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 30 June – 3 July at Ganton Golf Club, in Ganton, North Yorkshire, England. It was the seventh women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting club was founded in 1891 and the course was initially designed by Tom Chisholm and Robert Bird, later modified by different course architects, including James Braid, Alister MacKenzie, Harry Colt, John Henry Taylor, and Harry Vardon. It previously hosted the 1949 Ryder Cup and the 1964 Amateur Championship.[1]

The course was set up with par 75 over 6,289 yards, with 38 on the front nine holes and 37 on the back nine.

There was heavy rain the days before the tournament and warm weather with a small breeze during the competition.[2]

Format

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to five players, counted the four 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. Games all square after 18 holes were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

14 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.

CountryPlayers
 Denmark B. Holm Pedersen, Vibeke Morgan, Tove Palsby Geertz, Anette Bjerglund, L. Brunn, Karin Vang Sigumfeldt Birch
 England Sally Barber, Mary Everard, Julia Greenhalgh, Ann Irvin, Dinah Oxley, Mickey Walker
 France Odile Semelaigne-Garaïalde, Geraldine Cochet, Martine Gajan-Giraud, Georges Labesse, Anne Marie Palli, Brigitte Varangot
 Ireland Elaine Bradshaw, Mary Gorry, C. McAuley, Mary McKenna, M. Mooney, Vivian Singleton
 Italy R. Boeri, M. Dassù, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione, L. Rivetti, M. Segafredo, Marion Tadini
 Luxembourg A. Delvaux, R. de Muyser, R. Welter, C. Rischard, F. Letellier
 Netherlands Annelies Eschauzier, Priscilla Grosch, Annie Mackeson-Sandbach, Marischka Zegger-Swane, Joyce de Witt Puyt, Ineke Keunen
 Norway Mette Bjørum, Marianne Kohorn, Anniken Langaard, Mette Rinde Reuss, Reidun Stensland
 Scotland Marjory Ferguson, Jillian Hutton, Joan Lawrence, Joan Norris, Belle Robertson, Joan Smith
 Spain Elena Corominas, Carmen Maestre de Pellon, Inés Maestre, Cristina Marsans, Sissy Tolnay, Emma Villacieros de García-Ogara
 SwedenLiv Forsell, Louise Johansson Wingård, Christina Nordström, Nailil Skoog, Ann-Katrin Svensson, Christina Westerberg
  Switzerland Jacqueline Stucki, Marie Christine de Werra, M. Unthard, D. Caillat, B. Zeerleher
 Wales Audrey Briggs, Penny Griffiths Davies, Ann Hughes Johnson, Jean Hughes, Sylvia Webster, Nancy Wright
 West Germany Barbara Böhm, Marion Petersen, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Müller, Katharina Trebitsch

Winners

Tied leaders of the opening 18-hole competition were the finalist teams from the previous championship two years earlier, host nation England and defending champions France, each with an 18-over-par score of 318. Host nation England earned first place on the tie breaking better non-counting score.

Individual leader in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Marion Petersen, Germany, with a score of 1-over-par 76, one stroke ahead of Julia Greenhalgh, England. Six players in the field broke 80. There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Team England won the championship, earning their third title, beating defending champions France in the final 5–2. With the win, England became the first nation to win the men's and the women's European amateur team championships in the same year. England came to repeat that achievement the following year.

Team Sweden, for the second time on the podium, beat the Netherlands 5–2 in the third place match.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

 
Round 1Round 2Match for 9th place
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ireland6
 
 
 
 Norway1
 
 Norway4
 
 
 
  Switzerland3
 
 Ireland4
 
 
 
 Wales3
 
 Denmark5
 
 
 
 Luxembourg2
 
 Wales5.5
 
 
 Denmark1.5 Match for 11th place
 
 
 
 
 
 Denmark5
 
 
 Norway2
 
 
Round 1Match for 13th place
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Switzerland6
 
 
 Luxembourg1
 
 
 
 

Final standings

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

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Ganton Golf Club Official Site". Ganton Golf Club. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 Jacobs, Raymond (1 July 1971). "Scots easy qualifiers". The Glasgow Herald. p. 6. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Forsell, Liv (August 1971). "Liv från EM i Ganton: Tredje plats toppen - men vi tänker för negativt på banan" [Liv from European Ladies' Team Championship at Ganton: Third place is great - but we tink to negative]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. pp. 5–7. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  4. ↑ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 184. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  8. ↑ Jacobs, Raymond (2 July 1971). "Scots beaten by Dutch in first round". The Glasgow Herald. p. 13. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  9. ↑ Jacobs, Raymond (3 July 1971). "England and France in final". The Glasgow Herald. p. 5. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Jacobs, Raymond (5 July 1971). "Scots clearly must rely on youth policy". The Glasgow Herald. p. 4. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  11. ↑ The Golfer's Handbook 1973. Munro-Barr Publications Ltd, Glasgow. 1973. p. 347. ISBN 9780900403064.
  12. ↑ "England tie with France". The Times (London, England). 1 July 1971. p. 12.
  13. ↑ "Round of champagne drinks for Dutch". The Times (London, England). 2 July 1971. p. 10.
  14. ↑ Ryde, Peter (3 July 1971). "One more step toward European double". The Times (London, England). p. 10.
  15. ↑ Ryde, Peter (5 July 1971). "Women confirm England's supremacy in Europe". The Times (London, England). p. 8.
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