1983_European_Amateur_Team_Championship
1983 European Amateur Team Championship
Golf competition
The 1983 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–26 June at Golf de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France. It was the 13th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 22–26 June 1983 |
| Location | Paris, France 49°12′20″N 2°29′00″E |
| Course(s) | Golf de Chantilly |
| Organized by | European Golf Association |
| Format | Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,108 yards (6,500 m) |
| Field | 19 teams 114 players |
| Champion | |
 IrelandJohn Carr, Tom Cleary, Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris, Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton | |
| Qualification round: 730 (+20) Final match: 5–2 | |
| Location map | |
The hosting club was founded in 1909. The Vineuil Course, situated in Chantilly, in the forest of the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the center of Paris, close to the Château de Chantilly and Chantilly Racecourse, was originally designed by John Henry Taylor and later redesigned by Tom Simpson and Donald Steel. It had previously hosted eight editions of the Open de France.
For the 1983 European Amateur Team Championship, the course was set up with par 71 over 7,108 yards.
Each team consisted of five or 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. 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.
19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.
Players in the leading teams
| Country | Players |
|---|---|
 Denmark |
Henry Knudsen, Leif Nyholm, Jacob Rasmussen, Søren Rolner, Anders Sørensen, Steen Tinning |
 England |
Peter Hedges, Stephen Keppler, Peter McEvoy, Andrew Oldcorn, Jonathan Plaxton, Martin Thompson |
 France |
Sven Boinet, Alexis Godillot, Marc Pendariès, Eric Pery, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-Louis Schneider |
| Ireland |
John Carr, Tom Cleary, Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris, Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton |
 Italy |
Mauro Bianco, Alberto Binaghi, Emanuele Bolognesi, Andrea Canessa, Silvio Grappasonni, Sergio Prati |
 Norway |
Eric Bjerkholt, Tom Fredriksen, Gard Midtvåge, Ragnvald Risan, Tore Christian Sviland, Lars-Erik Underthun |
 Scotland |
Frank Coutts, Colin Dalgleish, George MacGregor, Lindsay Mann, Stephen McAllister, J.A. Thomson |
 Spain |
Ignacio Gervás, Julián García-Mayoral, José María Olazábal, Alejo Ollé, Borja Queipo de Llano, Román Taya |
 Sweden |
Thomas Andersson, Antero Baburin, Magnus Hennberg, Per Jönsson, Anders Sandgren, Björn Svedin |
 Wales |
R.D. Broad, G. Davies, John Roger Jones, David McLean, Philip Parkin, D.K. Wood |
 West Germany |
Thomas Dekorsy, Hans-Günter Reiter, Frank Schlig, Ulrich Schulte, Christoph Städler, Ralf Thielemann |
Other participating teams
Team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 8 over par 718.
Individual leader was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 8-under-par 134, five strokes ahead of Tore Christian Sviland, Norway. In his second round, McEvoy scored 8 birdies and 10 pars for an 8-under-par 63 score on the Chantilly course.
Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Spain in the final 5–2. Team Italy earned the bronze on third place, after beating Scotland 4–3 in the bronze match.
Qualification round
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Team standings
* 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
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual scores. |
Flight A
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Bracket
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Final games
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Flight B
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Match for 9th place | ||||||||
| Sweden | 6 | |||||||||
 Greece | 1 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 6 | |||||||||
| Wales | 1 | |||||||||
| Wales | 5 | |||||||||
 Finland | 2 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 5 | |||||||||
 Switzerland | 2 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 4 | |||||||||
 Belgium | 3 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 4 | |||||||||
| West Germany | 3 | Match for 11th place | ||||||||
| West Germany | 4.5 | |||||||||
| Wales | 2.5 | |||||||||
| Round 1 | Match for 13th place | |||||
| Finland | 4.5 | |||||
| Belgium | 2.5 | |||||
Flight C
| Round 1 | Match for 16th place | |||||
 Austria | 5 | |||||
 Iceland | 2 | |||||
| Austria | 5 | |||||
 Netherlands | 2 | |||||
| Netherlands | 4.5 | |||||
 Luxembourg | 2.5 | |||||
| Match for 18th place | ||||||
| Iceland | 5 | |||||
| Luxembourg | 2 | |||||
Final standings
| Place | Country |
|---|---|
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Ireland |
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Spain |
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Italy |
| 4 | Scotland |
| 5 | England |
| 6 | France |
| 7 | Denmark |
| 8 | Norway |
| 9 | Sweden |
| 10 | Switzerland |
| 11 | West Germany |
| 12 | Wales |
| 13 | Finland |
| 14 | Belgium |
| 15 | Greece |
| 16 | Austria |
| 17 | Netherlands |
| 18 | Iceland |
| 19 |  Luxembourg |
- 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.
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