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2015 European Amateur Team Championship

Official program cover 2015 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates	9–13 July 2015
Location	Halmstad, 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 by	European Golf Association
Format	Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,001 yards (6,402 m)
Field	16 teams 96 players
Champion
Scotland Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald, Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme
Qualification round: 724 (+4) Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
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The 2015 European Amateur Team Championship took place 7–11 July at Halmstad Golf Club, in Tylösand, Sweden. It was the 32nd men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The tournament was played at the Halmstad Golf Club's North course in Tylösand, Halmstad Municipality, 9 kilometers west of Halmstad city center in Halland County, Sweden.

The club was founded in 1930. Its first 18-hole course was constructed by Rafael Sundblom and approved in 1938. Another nine holes, constructed by Nils Sköld, was inaugurated in 1967. Together with the last nine holes of the old course, this formed the new course, called the North Course.

The club had previously hosted the 1985 European Amateur Team Championship and the 2007 Solheim Cup.

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Format

Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play 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 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. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

Teams

16 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Belgium	Alan de Bondt, Aurian Capart, Maxence de Craecker, Thomas Detry, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Frederic De Vooght
Denmark	Philip Juel-Berg, Peter Launer Bæk, Martin Leth Simonsen, Niklas Nørgaard, Sixten Stemann Jensen, Morten Toft Hansen
England	Ashley Chesters, Nick Marsh, Jimmy Mullen, Ben Taylor, Sean Towndrow, Ashton Turner
Finland	Kim Koivu, Kristian Kulokorpi, Miki Kuronen, Mikko Lehtovuori, Lauri Ruuska, Linus Väisänen
France	Léonard Bem, Alexandre Daydou, Romain Langasque, Thomas Perrot, Antoine Rozner, Robin Sciot-Siergrist
Germany	Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Hurly Long, Maximilian Mehles, Jeremy Paul, Yannik Paul, Maximilian Rottluff
Ireland	Paul Dunne, Jack Hume, Jack Hurley, Dermot McElroy, Gavin Moynihan, Comac Sharvin
Netherlands	Philip Bootsma, Rowin Caron, Lars Keunen, Jeroen Krietemeijer, Lars van Meijel, Robbie van West
Poland	Jakub Dymeck, Mateusz Gradecki, Adrian Meronk, Alejandro Pedryc, Jan Szmidt Jr., Oskar Zaborowski
Scotland	Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald, Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme
Spain	Pep Anglès, Adri Arnaus, Iván Cantero, Mario Galiano, Scott Fernández, Jon Rahm
Sweden	Adam Blommé, Oskar Bergqvist, Tobias Edén, Marcus Kinhult, Fredrik Niléhn, Hannes Rönneblad

Other participating teams

Country
Czech Republic
Italy
Switzerland
Wales

Winners

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland and a combined team from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Host nation Sweden made it to the quarter-finals with a one-stroke-margin on eighth place.

There was no official award for the lowest individual scores, but individual leaders were Robin Sciot-Siergrist, France, and Morten Toft Hansen, Denmark with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of Rowin Caron, the Netherlands.

Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their seventh title, beating team Denmark in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The last time the championship took place at Halmstad Golf Club, in 1985, Scotland also was the champions, winning their second title in the history of the event.

Host nation Sweden earned the bronze on third place, after beating eleven-times-champion England 4–3 in the bronze match.

A second division, named European Amateur Championship Division 2, took place 8–11 July 2015 at Postolowo Golf Club, Poland. The three best placed teams, Portugal, Austria and Norway, qualified for the 2016 European Amateur Team Championship.

Wales, Poland and the Czech Republic placed 14th, 15th and 16th in the first division and were moved to Division 2 for 2016.

Results

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  Germany 356-353=709 −11 2  Ireland 355-359=714 −6 3  Spain 360-360=720 E T4  France * 354-368=722 +2  Denmark 354-368=722 6  Scotland 367-357=724 +4 T7  England * 364-366=730 +10  Sweden 368-362=730 9  Italy 360-371=731 +11 10  Belgium 369-366=735 +15 11  Netherlands 368-369=737 +17 12  Wales 365-378=743 +23 13  Finland 369-378=747 +27 14  Czech Republic 373-380=753 +33 15  Switzerland 385-375=760 +40 16  Poland 405-383=788 +68 * Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.

Individual leaders Place Player Country Score To par T1 Robin Sciot-Siergrist  France 69-70=139 −5 Morten Toft Hansen  Denmark 67-72=139 3 Rowin Caron  Netherlands 69-71=140 −4 T4 Iván Cantero  Spain 73-68=141 −3 Hurly Long  Germany 70-71=141 Jack McDonald  Scotland 70-71=141 Jeremy Paul  Germany 72-69=141 T8 David Boote  Wales 69-73=142 −2 Thomas Detry  Belgium 70-72=142 Paul Dunne  Ireland 74-68=142 Grant Forrest  Scotland 71-71=142 Dermot McElroy  Ireland 70-72=142 Jon Rahm  Spain 70-72=142 Robbie van West  Netherlands 72-70=142 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Sweden 4        Germany 3    Denmark 4.5        Sweden 2.5    Denmark 4        France 3    Scotland 4.5        Denmark 2.5    Scotland 4.5        Spain 2.5    Scotland 4        England 3 Bronze match    England 4.5        Ireland 2.5    Sweden 4      England 3     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        France 3        Germany 2    Ireland 3        France 2    Ireland 3.5      Spain 1.5   Match for 7th place            Spain 3.5      Germany 1.5

Final games  Scotland  Denmark 5 2 G. Forrest / E. Ferguson 7 & 5 M. Toft Hansen / S. Stemann Jensen G. Robertson / J. McDonald 2 & 1 N. Nørgaard Møller / P. Launer Bæk Grant Forrest 1 up Niklas Nørgaard Ewen Ferguson Martin L Simonsen 2 & 1 Jack McDonald 2 & 1 Morten Toft Hansen Peter Launer Bæk AS * Peter Launer Bæk AS * Greig Marchbank Philip Juel Berg 6 & 5 * Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Italy 3.5        Poland 1.5    Finland 4.5        Italy 0.5    Finland 3        Wales 2    Belgium 3.5        Finland 1.5    Netherlands 4        Czech Republic 1    Belgium 3        Netherlands 2 Match for 11th place    Belgium 4        Switzerland 1    Netherlands 3      Italy 2

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Wales 3        Poland 2    Switzerland 3        Wales 2    Switzerland 3      Czech Republic 2   Match for 15th place            Poland 3.5      Czech Republic 1.5

Final standings

Place	Country
	Scotland
	Denmark
	Sweden
4	England
5	Ireland
6	France
7	Spain
8	Germany
9	Belgium
10	Finland
11	Netherlands
12	Italy
13	Switzerland
14	Wales
15	Poland
16	Czech Republic

Source:

See also

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

References

1. "2015 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
2. Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 100. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
3. "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), Conditions of Competition". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
4. "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program), The Course". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
5. "2015 European Amateur Championship Division 2". European Golf Association. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
6. "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2015 - Halmstad GC, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
7. "European Amateur Team Championship 2015 (Official program)". European Golf Association and Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
8. "Sveriges lag till Europamästerskap i golf för herrar uttaget" [The Swedish team for the European Amateur Team Championship selected] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
9. "Svenskt brons i lag-EM" [Swedish bronze at the European Amateur Team Championship] (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

External links

• European Golf Association: Full results

• European Amateur Team Championship
• Golf tournaments in Sweden
• 2015 in golf
• 2015 in Swedish sport
• July 2015 sports events in Europe