1975 European Amateur Team Championship
# 1975 European Amateur Team Championship

The 1975 European Amateur Team Championship took place 28 June – 1 July at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club, Killarney, Ireland. It was the ninth men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

## Venue

The tournament was played at the club's 18-hole Mahony's Point Course, opened in 1939 on the shore of Lough Leane, 3 kilometres west of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland.

The course was set up with par 35 over the first nine holes and par 38 on the second nine, finishing with a par 3 hole.

The course was dry and the whether warm and sunny during the whole tournament.

## Format

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with six players, and counted the five best scores 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. In each match between two national teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the morning foursome matches and five players in to the afternoon single matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B and the four teams placed 15–18 formed Flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

## Teams

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

| Country | Players |
| - | - |
| Austria | Uli Berlinger, M. Gohn, J. Göss-Saurau, E. Huber, Lampert Stolz, W. Wewalka |
| Belgium | John Bigwood, Benoit Dumont, Thierry Goosens, Yves Mahain, Freddy Rodesch, Jean Rolin, R. de Vooght |
| Denmark | Kjeld Friche, Lars Jacobsen, Niels Elsøe.Jensen, Henry Knudsen, John Nielsen, Jens Thomasen |
| England | John Davies, Richard Eyles, Peter Hedges, Mark James, Geoff Marks, Martin Poxon |
| Finland | Patrick Halamaa, Hannu Kussaari, Harry Safonoff, Kari Salonen, Juha Utter, Lauri Wirkala |
| France | Sven Boinet, Hervé Frayssineau, Alexis Godillot, George Leven, Tim Planchin, Philippe Ploujoux |
| Iceland | Torbjörn Kjaerbo, Einar Gudnason, Ragnar Olafsson, Oskar Saemundsson, Björgvin Thorsteinsson, S. Thorarensen |
| Ireland | Eddie Dunne, Ian Elliott, Jack Harrington, Brian Malone, Pat Mulcare, Hugh Smyth |
| Italy | Stefano Betti, Franco Gigliarelli, Antonio Lionello, Lorenzo Silva, Giuseppe Sita, Carlo Tadini |
| Luxembourg | A, Graas, N. Graas, Y. Görgen, C. Schock, J. Schock, G. Schumann |
| Netherlands | Carel Braun, Barend van Dam, T. Krol, Bart Nolte, Jaap van Neck, Victor Swane |
| Norway | Erik Dønnestad, Petter Dønnestad, Ole-Christian Hammer, Johan Horn, Asbjörn Ramnefjell, L. Stensrud |
| Scotland | Charlie Green, Ian Hutcheon, George MacGregor, Gordon Murray, Sandy Stephen, Hugh Stuart |
| Spain | Santiago Fernández, José Gancedo, Ivan Maura, A. Perales, Nicasio Sagardia, Román Taya |
| Sweden | Dag Aurell, Bob Bäckstedt, Hans Hedjerson, Göran Lundqvist, Jan Rube, Michael Örtegren |
| Switzerland | Yves Hofstetter, Thomas Fortmann, Martin Kessler, Carlo Rampone, Michel Rey, Johnny Storjohann |
| Wales | John Jermine, David McLean, Hew Squirell, Jeff Toye, John Povall, Iestyn Tucker |
| West Germany | Hans-Hubert Giesen, Freidrich Janssen, C. Killan, Hans Lampert, Veit Pagel, Christian Strenger |

## Winners

Scotland won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating Italy in the final 4.5–2.5. The Scottish team won the qualifying competition for the fourth consecutive occasion and had previously in the history of the championship finished second three times, losing the last two finals to England.

Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, just as at the previous event two years earlier, after beating Switzerland 4–3 in the bronze match.

Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter-finals, finishing tied 8th in the qualifying competition and losing the tie-breaker to France with a one stroke higher non-counting sixth score. Team Wales' low scorer Jeff Toye holed from eight feet on both of his last two greens, giving his team a final one-stroke advantage over England and France, but the sixth score for Wales would not have beaten the sixth scores of neither England or France in the event of a tie.

Individual leader in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Ian Hutcheon, Scotland, with a score of 3-under-par 70. There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

## Results

Qualification round

| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Scotland | 368 | +3 |
| 2 | Italy | 377 | +12 |
| T3 | Sweden * | 378 | +13 |
| T3 | West Germany * | 378 | +13 |
| T3 | Switzerland | 378 | +13 |
| 6 | Ireland | 380 | +15 |
| 7 | Wales | 382 | +17 |
| T8 | France * | 383 | +18 |
| T8 | England | 383 | +18 |
| 10 | Spain | 395 | +30 |
| 11 | Norway | 402 | +37 |
| T12 | Belgium * | 403 | +38 |
| T12 | Netherlands | 403 | +38 |
| 14 | Denmark | 405 | +40 |
| 15 | Finland | 412 | +47 |
| 16 | Iceland | 426 | +61 |
| T17 | Luxembourg * | 431 | +66 |
| T17 | Austria | 431 | +66 |
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Ian Hutcheon | Scotland | 70 | −3 |
| 2 | Geoff Marks | England | 71 | −2 |
| T3 | Stefano Betti | Italy | 72 | −1 |
| T3 | Lorenzo Silva | Italy | 72 | −1 |
| T3 | Giuseppe Sita | Italy | 72 | −1 |
| T6 | Göran Lundqvist | Sweden | 73 | E |
| T6 | Philippe Ploujoux | France | 73 | E |
| T6 | Jeff Toye | Wales | 73 | E |

Sources:

Flight A

| Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semi finals | Semi finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Italy | 5 | | |
| Wales | 2 | | |
| Wales | 2 | Italy | 5 |
| | | Sweden | 2 |
| Sweden | 5.5 | Sweden | 2 |
| Ireland | 1.5 | | | | |
| Ireland | 1.5 | | | Scotland | 4.5 |
| | | | | Italy | 2.5 |
| Switzerland | 5 | | | Italy | 2.5 |
| West Germany | 2 | | | | |
| West Germany | 2 | Scotland | 5 | | |
| | | Switzerland | 2 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| Scotland | 6 | Switzerland | 2 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| France | 1 | | | | |
| France | 1 | | | Sweden | 4 |
| | | | | Switzerland | 3 |
| Elimination matches | Elimination matches | Match for 5th place | Match for 5th place |
| France | 4.5 |
| Wales | 2.5 | | |
| Wales | 2.5 | Wales | 6 |
| | | West Germany | 1 |
| Switzerland | 4.5 | West Germany | 1 |
| West Germany | 2.5 | | |
| West Germany | 2.5 | Match for 7th place | Match for 7th place |
| | | Ireland | 4 |
| | | France | 3 |
| Scotland | Italy |
| 4.5 | 2.5 |
| I. Hutcheon / C. Green | L. Silva / A. Lionelli 19th |
| H. Stuart / G. MacGregor 5 & 3 | S. Betti / G. Sita |
| Hugh Stuart 2 & 1 | Carlo Tadini |
| Ian Hutcheon AS* | Antonio Lionelli AS* |
| Sandy Stephen | Giuseppe Sita 1 hole |
| Charlie Green 3 & 2 | Stefano Betti |
| George MacGregor 6 & 5 | Lorenzo Silva |

Flight B

| England | Norway |
| - | - |
| 5 | 2 |
| Spain | Netherlands |
| 5 | 2 |
| Norway | Denmark |
| 4 | 3 |
| Netherlands | Belgium |
| 5 | 2 |
| Denmark | Belgium |
| 5 | 2 |
| Netherlands | Norway |
| 4 | 3 |
| England | Spain |
| 5 | 2 |

Flight C

| Luxembourg | Iceland |
| - | - |
| 5 | 2 |
| Finland | Austria |
| 4.5 | 2.5 |
| Iceland | Austria |
| 6 | 1 |
| Finland | Luxembourg |
| 4 | 3 |
| Iceland | Finland |
| 4.5 | 2.5 |
| Luxembourg | Austria |
| 4 | 3 |

Final standings

| Place | Country |
| - | - |
| | Scotland |
| | Italy |
| | Sweden |
| 4 | Switzerland |
| 5 | Wales |
| 6 | West Germany |
| 7 | Ireland |
| 8 | France |
| 9 | England |
| 10 | Spain |
| 11 | Netherlands |
| 12 | Norway |
| 13 | Denmark |
| 14 | Belgium |
| 15 | Iceland |
| 16 | Luxembourg |
| 17 | Finland |
| 18 | Austria |

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