2015 European Amateur Team Championship
# 2015 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2015 European Amateur Team Championship took place 7–11 July at Halmstad Golf Club, in Tylösand, Sweden. It was the 32nd men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

## Venue

The tournament was played at the Halmstad Golf Club's North course in Tylösand, Halmstad Municipality, 9 kilometers west of Halmstad city center in Halland County, Sweden.

The club was founded in 1930. Its first 18-hole course was constructed by Rafael Sundblom and approved in 1938. Another nine holes, constructed by Nils Sköld, was inaugurated in 1967. Together with the last nine holes of the old course, this formed the new course, called the North Course.

The club had previously hosted the 1985 European Amateur Team Championship and the 2007 Solheim Cup.

The championship course was set up with par 72.

## 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 played 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.

## Teams

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

Players in the leading teams

| Country | Players |
| - | - |
| Belgium | Alan de Bondt, Aurian Capart, Maxence de Craecker, Thomas Detry, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Frederic De Vooght |
| Denmark | Philip Juel-Berg, Peter Launer Bæk, Martin Leth Simonsen, Niklas Nørgaard Møller, Sixten Stemann Jensen, Morten Toft Hansen |
| England | Ashley Chesters, Nick Marsh, Jimmy Mullen, Ben Taylor, Sean Towndrow, Ashton Turner |
| Finland | Kim Koivu, Kristian Kulokorpi, Miki Kuronen, Mikko Lehtovuori, Lauri Ruuska, Linus Väisänen |
| France | Léonard Bem, Alexandre Daydou, Romain Langasque, Thomas Perrot, Antoine Rozner, Robin Sciot-Siergrist |
| Germany | Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Hurly Long, Maximilian Mehles, Jeremy Paul, Yannik Paul, Maximilian Rottluff |
| Ireland | Paul Dunne, Jack Hume, Jack Hurley, Dermot McElroy, Gavin Moynihan, Comac Sharvin |
| Netherlands | Philip Bootsma, Rowin Caron, Lars Keunen, Jeroen Krietemeijer, Lars van Meijel, Robbie van West |
| Poland | Jakub Dymeck, Mateusz Gradecki, Adrian Meronk, Alejandro Pedryc, Jan Szmidt Jr., Oskar Zaborowski |
| Scotland | Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest, Greig Marchbank, Jack McDonald, Graeme Robertson, Connor Syme |
| Spain | Pep Anglès, Adri Arnaus, Iván Cantero, Mario Galiano, Scott Fernández, Jon Rahm |
| Sweden | Adam Blommé, Oskar Bergqvist, Tobias Edén, Marcus Kinhult, Fredrik Niléhn, Hannes Rönneblad |

Other participating teams

* Country
* Czech Republic
* Italy
* Switzerland
* Wales

## Winners

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland and a combined team from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Host nation Sweden made it to the quarter-finals with a one-stroke-margin on eighth place.

There was no official award for the lowest individual scores, but individual leaders were Robin Sciot-Siergrist, France, and Morten Toft Hansen, Denmark with a 5-under-par score of 139, one stroke ahead of Rowin Caron, the Netherlands.

Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their seventh title, beating team Denmark in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The last time the championship took place at Halmstad Golf Club, in 1985, Scotland also was the champions, winning their second title in the history of the event.

Host nation Sweden earned the bronze on third place, after beating eleven-times-champion England 4–3 in the bronze match.

A second division, named European Amateur Championship Division 2, took place 8–11 July 2015 at Postolowo Golf Club, Poland. The three best placed teams, Portugal, Austria and Norway, qualified for the 2016 European Amateur Team Championship.

Wales, Poland and the Czech Republic placed 14th, 15th and 16th in the first division and were moved to Division 2 for 2016.

## Results

Qualification round

| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Germany | 356-353=709 | −11 |
| 2 | Ireland | 355-359=714 | −6 |
| 3 | Spain | 360-360=720 | E |
| T4 | France * | 354-368=722 | +2 |
| T4 | Denmark | 354-368=722 | +2 |
| 6 | Scotland | 367-357=724 | +4 |
| T7 | England * | 364-366=730 | +10 |
| T7 | Sweden | 368-362=730 | +10 |
| 9 | Italy | 360-371=731 | +11 |
| 10 | Belgium | 369-366=735 | +15 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 368-369=737 | +17 |
| 12 | Wales | 365-378=743 | +23 |
| 13 | Finland | 369-378=747 | +27 |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 373-380=753 | +33 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 385-375=760 | +40 |
| 16 | Poland | 405-383=788 | +68 |
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| T1 | Robin Sciot-Siergrist | France | 69-70=139 | −5 |
| T1 | Morten Toft Hansen | Denmark | 67-72=139 | −5 |
| 3 | Rowin Caron | Netherlands | 69-71=140 | −4 |
| T4 | Iván Cantero | Spain | 73-68=141 | −3 |
| T4 | Hurly Long | Germany | 70-71=141 | −3 |
| T4 | Jack McDonald | Scotland | 70-71=141 | −3 |
| T4 | Jeremy Paul | Germany | 72-69=141 | −3 |
| T8 | David Boote | Wales | 69-73=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Thomas Detry | Belgium | 70-72=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Paul Dunne | Ireland | 74-68=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Grant Forrest | Scotland | 71-71=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Dermot McElroy | Ireland | 70-72=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Jon Rahm | Spain | 70-72=142 | −2 |
| T8 | Robbie van West | Netherlands | 72-70=142 | −2 |

Flight A

| Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semi finals | Semi finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sweden | 4 | | |
| Germany | 3 | | |
| Germany | 3 | Denmark | 4.5 |
| | | Sweden | 2.5 |
| Denmark | 4 | Sweden | 2.5 |
| France | 3 | | | | |
| France | 3 | | | Scotland | 4.5 |
| | | | | Denmark | 2.5 |
| Scotland | 4.5 | | | Denmark | 2.5 |
| Spain | 2.5 | | | | |
| Spain | 2.5 | Scotland | 4 | | |
| | | England | 3 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| England | 4.5 | England | 3 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| Ireland | 2.5 | | | | |
| Ireland | 2.5 | | | Sweden | 4 |
| | | | | England | 3 |
| Elimination matches | Elimination matches | Match for 5th place | Match for 5th place |
| France | 3 |
| Germany | 2 | | |
| Germany | 2 | Ireland | 3 |
| | | France | 2 |
| Ireland | 3.5 | France | 2 |
| Spain | 1.5 | | |
| Spain | 1.5 | Match for 7th place | Match for 7th place |
| | | Spain | 3.5 |
| | | Germany | 1.5 |
| Scotland | Denmark |
| 5 | 2 |
| G. Forrest / E. Ferguson 7 & 5 | M. Toft Hansen / S. Stemann Jensen |
| G. Robertson / J. McDonald 2 & 1 | N. Nørgaard Møller / P. Launer Bæk |
| Grant Forrest 1 up | Niklas Nørgaard Møller |
| Ewen Ferguson | Martin L Simonsen 2 & 1 |
| Jack McDonald 2 & 1 | Morten Toft Hansen |
| Peter Launer Bæk AS * | Peter Launer Bæk AS * |
| Greig Marchbank | Philip Juel Berg 6 & 5 |

Flight B

Bracket

| Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 2 | Match for 9th place | Match for 9th place |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Italy | 3.5 | | |
| Poland | 1.5 | | |
| Poland | 1.5 | Finland | 4.5 |
| | | Italy | 0.5 |
| Finland | 3 | Italy | 0.5 |
| Wales | 2 | | | | |
| Wales | 2 | | | Belgium | 3.5 |
| | | | | Finland | 1.5 |
| Netherlands | 4 | | | Finland | 1.5 |
| Czech Republic | 1 | | | | |
| Czech Republic | 1 | Belgium | 3 | | |
| | | Netherlands | 2 | Match for 11th place | Match for 11th place |
| Belgium | 4 | Netherlands | 2 | Match for 11th place | Match for 11th place |
| Switzerland | 1 | | | | |
| Switzerland | 1 | | | Netherlands | 3 |
| | | | | Italy | 2 |
| Elimination matches | Elimination matches | Match for 13th place | Match for 13th place |
| Wales | 3 |
| Poland | 2 | | |
| Poland | 2 | Switzerland | 3 |
| | | Wales | 2 |
| Switzerland | 3 | Wales | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | | |
| Czech Republic | 2 | Match for 15th place | Match for 15th place |
| | | Poland | 3.5 |
| | | Czech Republic | 1.5 |

Final standings

| Place | Country |
| - | - |
| | Scotland |
| | Denmark |
| | Sweden |
| 4 | England |
| 5 | Ireland |
| 6 | France |
| 7 | Spain |
| 8 | Germany |
| 9 | Belgium |
| 10 | Finland |
| 11 | Netherlands |
| 12 | Italy |
| 13 | Switzerland |
| 14 | Wales |
| 15 | Poland |
| 16 | Czech Republic |

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