The 2007
Seve Trophy
The Seve Trophy was a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional male golfers; one team representing Great Britain and Ireland, the other team representing Continental Europe. The tournament was played in years when there is no Ryder ...
took place between 27–30 September at
The Heritage Golf & Spa Resort
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in the
Republic of Ireland
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. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Nick Faldo, with the captain for Continental Europe being Seve Ballesteros. Great Britain and Ireland retained the trophy for the third consecutive time.
Format
The teams competed over four days with five Four-ball golf, fourball matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten matchplay, singles on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14½ points required for victory. If the score finished at 14-14, then two players from each team would play the 18th using the greensomes format to find the winner.
Each member of the winner team received Euro, €125,000, the losing team €75,000 each, giving a total prize fund of €2,000,000.
Teams
The teams were made up of four players from the Official World Golf Ranking list, four players from the European points list, and two captain's pick. However, there were a number of players who qualified for the trophy, but pulled out. These include: Henrik Stenson, Pádraig Harrington, Sergio García and Lee Westwood.
Day one
''Thursday, 27 September 2007''
Fourball
Day two
''Friday, 28 September 2007''
Fourball
Day three
''Saturday, 29 September 2007''
Morning greensomes
Afternoon foursomes
Day four
''Sunday, 30 September 2007''
Singles
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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