1985 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates26–30 June 1985
LocationHalmstad, Sweden
56°39′44″N 12°44′57″E / 56.662264°N 12.749291°E / 56.662264; 12.749291
Course(s)Halmstad Golf Club, (North Course)
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length6,540 yards (5,980 m)
Field19 teams
108 players
Champion
 Scotland
Cecil Bloice, Ian Brotherston,
George MacGregor, Angus Moir,
Colin Montgomerie, Sandy Stephen
Qualification round: 760 (+40)
Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
Location Map
Location in Europe
Location in Sweden
Location in Halland County

The 1985 European Amateur Team Championship took place from 26 to 30 June at Halmstad Golf Club, in Tylösand, Sweden. It was the 14th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.[1]

Venue

The tournament was played at the club's North course. The club was founded in 1930. Its first 18-hole course, located in Tylösand, Halmstad Municipality, 9 kilometers west of Halmstad city center in Halland County, Sweden, was constructed by Rafael Sundblom and approved in 1938. A new course was inaugurated in 1967. Together with the last nine holes of the old course, this formed the new course, called the North Course.[1]

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.

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.[2] Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–19 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Denmark Ole Eskildsen, Rolf Nissen, Leif Nyholm, Jan Frej Petersen, Jacob Rasmussen, Anders Sørensen
 England Peter Baker, David Gilford, John Hawksworth, Graham Homewood, Craig Lawrence, Peter McEvoy
 Finland Johan Hirn, Tapio Jalo, Markku Louhio, Sauli Mäkiluoma, Juha Selin, Erkki Välimää
 France Alexis Godillot, François Illouz, Laurent Lasalle, Marc Pendariès, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-François Remésy
 Greece George Arasonis, George Nikitaidis, Craigen Pappas, Sean Pappas, Stefan Vafiiadis, Chris Valasakis
 Ireland Neil Anderson, Jim Feeney, Mark Gannon, Garth McGimpsey, Liam McNamara, Arthur Pierse
 Italy Alberto Binaghi, Marco Durante, Guido Grappasoni, Giorgio Merlitti, Enrico Nistri, Sergio Prati
 Netherlands Ruud Bos, Carel Braun, Bart Nolte, Daan Slooter, Piet-Hein Streutgers, Siemon Vegter
 Norway Erik Dønnestad, Tom Fredriksen, Per Haugsrud, Gard Midtvåge, Tore Christian Sviland, Lars-Erik Underthun
 Scotland Cecil Bloice, Ian Brotherston, George Macgregor, Angus Moir, Colin Montgomerie, Sandy Stephen
 Spain Ignacio Gervás, Luis Gabarda, Dionisio Garcia, José María Olazábal, Borja Queipo de Llano, Eduardo de la Riva
 Sweden Magnus Hennberg, John Lindberg, Jesper Parnevik, Johan Ryström, Carl-Magnus Strömberg, Johan Tumba
 Wales John Jones, Stephen Jones, Michael Macara, Paul Mayo, Richard Morris, Neil Roderick
 West Germany Thomas Hübner, Rainer Mund, Hans-Günther Reiter, Christoph Städler, Andreas Stamm, Ralf Thielemann

Other participating teams

Country
 Austria
 Belgium
 Czechoslovakia
 Iceland
  Switzerland

Winners

Host country Sweden won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 14 over par 734.[3]

Individual leaders were Jesper Parnevik, Sweden and Erkki Välimää, Finland, each of them with a score of 2-under-par 142, two strokes ahead of Peter McEvoy, England.[3]

Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Sweden in the final 4.5–2.5. Team Spain earned the bronze on third place, after beating England 4.5–2.5 in the bronze match.[4]

José María Olazábal, Spain, made a hole-in-one on the 13th hole, during his 3 and 2 single match win over Colin Montgomerie in the semi-final between Spain and Scotland.[3]

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Flight C

Bracket

 
Round 1Match for 16th place
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Belgium5.5
 
 
 
 Iceland1.5
 
 Austria5.5
 
 
 
 Belgium1.5
 
 Austria4
 
 
 Czech Republic3
 
Match for 18th place
 
 
 
 
 
 Czech Republic4
 
 
 Iceland3

Final standings

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

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 100. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Jansson, Anders (June 1985). "Inför EM" [Ahead of the Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6. pp. 7–19. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Jansson, Anders (July 1985). "EM herrar" [Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 7. pp. 5–11. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "European Amateur Team Championship, 1985 – Halmstad, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
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