1985_European_Amateur_Team_Championship

1985 European Amateur Team Championship

1985 European Amateur Team Championship

Golf competition

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]

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Venue

Main article: Halmstad Golf Club

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

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Other participating teams

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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

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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

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

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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. [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. [3]
    Jansson, Anders (July 1985). "EM herrar" [Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 7. pp. 5–11. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  4. [4]
    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.
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    "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. [6]
    "European Amateur Team Championship, 1985 – Halmstad, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
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