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2003 European Amateur Team Championship

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2003 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates1–5 July 2003
LocationThe Hague, Netherlands
52°07′52″N 04°21′43″E / 52.13111°N 4.36194°E / 52.13111; 4.36194
Course(s)Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length6,686 yards (6,114 m)
Field20 teams
120 players
Champion
 Spain
Alejandro Cañizares, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño,
Sebastián García Grout, Alfredo García-Heredia,
Pablo Martín, Álvaro Quirós
Qualification round: 716 (−4)
Final match: 5–2
Location map
Royal The Hague G&CC is located in Europe
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Location in Europe
Royal The Hague G&CC is located in Netherlands
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Location in Netherlands
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The 2005 European Amateur Team Championship took place 1–5 July at Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club in Wassenaar, Netherlands. It was the 23rd men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

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The course at Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club, situated in an undulating dune landscape in Wassenaar, 10 kilometres north of the city center of The Hague, was designed in 1938, by Harry Colt and C.H. Alison.

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Format

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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 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 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.

The four teams placed 17–20 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

Teams

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20 nation teams contested the event, three teams lesser than at the previous event two years earlier. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Denmark Mark Haastrup, Anders Schmidt Hansen, Jeppe Huldahl, Michael Jürgensen, Dennis Kristiansen, Martin Larsson
 England Richard Finch. Ross Fisher, Jon Lupton, Richard Walker, Oliver Wilson, Gary Wolstenholme
 Finland Keijo Jaakola, Roope Kakko, Ville Karhu, Heikki Mantyla, Ari Savolainen, Erik Stenman
 France Nicolas Allain, Eric Chadouet, Bertrand Coathalem, Julien Duclos-Grenet, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet, Adrien Mörk
 Germany Martin Kaymer, Markus Maichel, Benjamin Miarka, Patrick Niederdrenk, Christian Schunck, Richard Treis
 Iceland Heidar Bragason, Örn Ævar Hjartarson, Haraldur Heimisson, Magnus Larusson, Sigurdall Sveinsson, Sigmundur Masson
 Ireland Noel Fox, Justin Kehoe, Gareth Maybin, Brian McElhinney, Michael McGeady, Colm Moriarty
 Italy Alessio Bruschi, Edoardo Molinari, Francesco Molinari, Gregory Molteni, Michele Rossi, Andrea Signor
 Netherlands Wil Besseling, Jan Willem van Hoof, Rick Huiskamp, Edward de Jong, Robin Swane, Inder van Weerelt
 Norway Lars Brovold, Johann Gudjonsson, Eirik-Tage Johansen, Torstein Nevestad, Ole-Kristian Olsen, Nicolay Syvertsen
 Scotland Jack Doherty, Graham Gordon, David Inglis, Andrew McArthur, Craig Watson, Stuart Wilson
 Spain Alejandro Cañizares, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Sebastián García Grout, Alfredo García-Heredia, Pablo Martín, Álvaro Quirós
 Sweden Kalle Edberg, Steven Jeppesen, Niklas Lemke, Pär Nilsson, Alexander Norén, Wilhelm Schauman
 Wales Nigel Edwards, Stuart Manley, David Price, Alex Smith, Craig Smith, Gareth Wright

Other participating teams

Country
 Austria
 Belgium
 Czech Republic
 Portugal
 Slovenia
 Switzerland

Winners

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Four-time-winners team Ireland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 4-under-par score of 716, 11 strokes ahead of team Norway on 2nd place and host nation Netherlands another two strokes behind. Defending champions team Scotland did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing tenth. 1999 champions Italy missed the quarter finals on a tiebreaker, with the same qualifying score as England and Sweden on tied 7th place.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leaders were Justin Kehoe, Ireland, and Torstein Nevestad, Norway, each with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of Alex Smith, Wales.

Team Spain won the gold medal, earning their second title in four years, beating team England in the final 5–2.

Team Sweden earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 4–3 in the bronze match.

Results

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Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Flight C

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Spain
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  England
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden
4  France
5  Netherlands
6  Ireland
7  Wales
8  Norway
9  Scotland
10  Finland
11  Italy
12  Germany
13  Iceland
14  Portugal
15  Denmark
16  Slovenia
17  Belgium
18  Switzerland
19  Austria
20  Czech Republic

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  2. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. ^ Smart, Chris (4 July 2003). "Excellent Swedish team crush Irish hopes". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  4. ^ Smart, Chris (2 July 2003). "Hot Kehoe fires Ireland to top". Independent.ie. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  5. ^ Smart, Chris (3 July 2003). "Ireland storm into last eight". Independent.ie. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
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