2023 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2023 European Amateur Team Championship took place 11–15 July at the Royal Waterloo Golf Club in Lasne, Belgium. It was the 40th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Defending champion team Spain won the championship.

Venue

The hosting club was founded in 1923 by Rodolphe Seeldrayers. The Marache Course was designed by architect Fred Hawtree and established in 1961 in Ohain, Lasne, in the region of Wallon Brabant, close to the historic Waterloo battlefield, 20 kilometres south-east of the city center of Brussels, Belgium. The greens were renovated by Martin Hawtree, son of Fred Hawree, 2004–2005.

Course layout

Format

Each team consisted of six players. On the first two days each player played 18 holes of stroke play each day. The lowest five scores from each team's six players counted to the team total each day.

The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the following three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team was 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. Teams knocked out after the quarter finals played one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Extra holes were played in games that were all square after 18 holes. However, if the result of the team match was already decided, undecided games wee declared halved.

The teams outside the top eight in the stroke-play stage formed flight B, also played knock-out match-play, but with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

Teams

16 nation teams contested the event. Qualified were the top 13 teams from the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship, the host nation team Belgium and the two top teams from the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship Division 2. Each team consisted of six players.

Winners

Team Denmark led the opening 36-hole stroke-play competition with a 32-under-par score of 688, three strokes ahead of defending champion team Spain with team England in third place a further two strokes behind.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was José Luis Ballester, Spain, with an 11-under-par score of 133, one stroke ahead of Barclay Brown, England.

Team Spain, with three players remaining from last years triumph, won the gold medal, playing their seventh final and earning their sixth title, beating team Denmark in the final 4–3.

Team Ireland, a combined team from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, earned third place, after beating England 6–1 in the bronze match.

Results

Qualification round

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

Flight A

''Bracket''

''Final games''

Flight B

''Bracket''

Source:

See also

* Eisenhower Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.
*European Amateur Championship – European amateur individual golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association.
*European Ladies' Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association.

References

External links

European Golf Association: 2023 Events

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