2011 European Amateur Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates5–9 July 2011
LocationVilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
37°4′40″N 8°6′55″W / 37.07778°N 8.11528°W / 37.07778; -8.11528
Course(s)Oceânico Golf (Victoria Course)
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
FormatQualification round: 36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Length7,174 yards (6,560 m)
Field20 teams
120 players
Champion
 France
Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun,
Édouard España, Sébastien Gros,
Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal
Qualification round: 702 (−18)
Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
Location Map
Location in Europe
Location i Portugal

The 2011 European Amateur Team Championship took place 5–9 July at Oceânico Golf in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal on its Victoria Course.[1][2][3] It was the 29th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004. In 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.[4]

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 were allowed to play 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.

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

20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Russia took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country Players
 Austria Hamza Amin, Philipp Fendt, Tono Kromer, Lukas Nemecz, Manuel Trappel, Christoph Weninger
 Belgium Xavier Feyaerts, Thomas Pieters, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Julien Richelle, Kevin Hesbois, Nick Ver Elst
 Denmark Lucas Bjerregaard, Victor Henum, Mads Søgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Thomas Sørensen, Sebastian Cappelen
 England Stiggy Hodgson, Jack Senior, Andy Sullivan, Darren Wright, Dave Coupland, Steven Brown
 Finland Tapio Pulkkanen, Tuomas Salminen, Toni Hakula, Niclas Hellberg, Miro Veijalainen, Roope Kangas
 France Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun, Édouard España, Sébastien Gros, Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal
 Germany Benedict Staben, Moritz Lampert, Sebastien Kannler, Stephan Jäger, Marcel Schneider, Philipp Westermann
 Iceland Axel Bóasson, Arnar Hakonarson, Gudjonn Hilmarsson, Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Alfred Brynjar Kristinsson, Ólafur Loftsson
 Ireland Paul Cutler, Kevin Phelan, Alan Dunbar, Eoin Arthurs, Pat Murray, Paul Dunne
 Italy Filippo Berganaschi, Francesco Laporta, Mattia Miloro, Leonardo Motto, Niccolò Quintarelli, Filippo Zuchetti
 Netherlands Dylan Boshart, Bernard Geelkerken, Daan Huizing, Robin Kind, Frank Van Hoof, Willem Vork
 Scotland James Byrne, Ross Kellett, David Law, Kris Nicol, Greg Paterson, Michael Stewart
 Spain Scott Fernandez, Adrian Otaegui, Nacho Elvira, Antonio Hortal, Juan Francisco Sarasti, Oliver Mena
 Sweden Pontus Widegren, Sebastian Söderberg, Pontus Gad, Nils Florén, Robert S. Karlsson, Niclas Carlsson
  Switzerland Marc Dobias, Benjamim Rusch, Arthur Gabella, Edouard Amacher, Victor Doka, Marco Iten
 Wales Rhys Enoch, Oliver Farr, James Frazer, Rhys Pugh, Ben Westgate, Joe Vickery

Other participating teams

Country
 Norway
 Portugal
 Russia
 Slovakia

Winners

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Spain, with a 24-under-par score of 696. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing ninth in the qualifying round.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Scott Fernandez, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 135, two strokes ahead of Adrián Otaegui, Spain and Thomas Pieters, Belgium.

Team France won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Switzerland in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.

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

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

Flight C

Final standings

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

Source:[5][6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Shareit (6 July 2011). "Portugal News, Algarve News, European Amateur Team Championship returns to the Algarve". Portugal Resident. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "EM-landslagen är uttagna" [European Championship teams nominated] (in Swedish). golf.se, Swedish Golf Federation. 8 June 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Team-EM der Herren in Portugal" [Men's European Team Championship in Portugal] (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Vilamoura (Victoria) - Algarve - Portugal, Dom Pedro Golf". Top 100 Golf Courses. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2011 - Oceânico Victoria, Portugal". European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "2011 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  7. ↑ "2011 European Amateur Men's Team Championship" (PDF). European Golf Association. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
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