2005 European Amateur Team Championship

2005 European Amateur Team Championship

Tournament information
Dates	28 June – 2 July 2005
Location	Southport, England, United Kingdom 53.620°N 3.028°W / 53.620; -3.028
Course(s)	Hillside Golf Club
Organized by	European Golf Association
Format	Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,850 yards (6,260 m)
Field	20 teams 120 players
Champion
England Oliver Fisher, Gary Lockerbie, Jamie Moul, Matthew Richardson, Steven Tiley, Gary Wolstenholme
Qualification round: 704 (−16) Final match: 6–1
Location map
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The 2005 European Amateur Team Championship took place 28 June – 2 July at Hillside Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the 24th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

Main article: Hillside Golf Club

The club was founded in 1911. The course, located in Southport, 20 kilometres north of the city center of Liverpool, England, is a links course, with all the holes being between and on mainly large dunes and local indigenous pinewoods, typical of the area. It is physically close to both the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, near its south-western boundaries, and to the Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club.^[1][2]

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 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. 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.

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 nations as at the previous event two years earlier. Each team consisted of six players.

Country	Players
Austria	Kajetan Kromer, Anton Ortner, Peter Lepitschnik, Florian Praegant, Roland Steiner, Bernd Wiesberger
Belgium	Yannick Bode, Rutger Dhondt, Hervé Gevers, Pierre Relecom, Guillaume Watremez, Sebastien Wulf
Czech Republic	Ondrej Lebl, Petr Nic, Marek Novy, Jakum Stanislav, Roman Svoboda, Lukas Tintera
Denmark	Janik Bolinder, Peter Baunsee, Philip Drost, Mark Haastrup, Christoffer Lang, Peter Meldegaard
England	Oliver Fisher, Gary Lockerbie, Jamie Moul, Matthew Richardson, Steven Tiley, Gary Wolstenholme
Finland	Antti Ahokas, Peter Erofejeff, Joonas Granberg, Jarmo Hovila, Tommi Laitto, Heikki Mantyla
France	François Calmels, Sebastien Clement, Julien Forêt, Joachim Fourquet, Julien Guerrier, Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Germany	Florian Fritsch, Martin Kaymer, Stefan Kirstein, Benjamin Miarka, Christian Schunck, Christopher Trunzer
Iceland	Heidar Bragason, Örn Ævar Hjartarson, Magnus Larusson, Sigmundur Einar Masson, Otto Sigurdsson, Stefan Mar Stefansson
Ireland	Jim Carvill, Darren Crowe, Rory McIlroy, Brian McElhinney, Michael McGeady, Sean McTernan
Italy	Simone Brizzolari, Matteo Delpodio, Lorenzo Gagli, Edoardo Molinari, Andrea Romano, Andrea Signor
Netherlands	Wil Besseling, Jan Willem van Hoof, Joost Luiten, Robert Niemer, Taco Remkes, Robin Swane
Norway	Petter Enger, Johann Gudjonsson, Eirik-Tage Johansen, Kim Kristoffersen, Marcus Leandersson, Torstein Nevestad
Portugal	Goncalo Brito, Salvador Castro, Tiago Cruz, Pedro Figueiredo, Antonio Rosado, Ricardo Santos
Scotland	Jonathan King, Andrew McArthur, George Murray, Eric Ramsay, Richie Ramsay, Llyod Saltman
Slovenia	Gaber Burnik, Matjaz Gojcic, Grega Perne, Rok Pisek, Miha Studen, Jaka Vidmar
Spain	Pol Bech, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Jorge Campillo, Alejandro Cañizares, Pablo Martín, Álvaro Velasco
Sweden	Jonas Blixt, Kalle Edberg, Oscar Florén, Andreas Högberg, Niklas Lemke, Alexander Norén
Switzerland	Roger Furrer, Martin Rominger, Nicolas Sulzer, Sandro Tan-Piaget, Damian Ulrich, Tino Weiss
Wales	Rhys Davies, Tim Dykes, Nigel Edwards, Zachariah Gould, Gareth Wright, James Williams

Winners

Host nation and eight-time-winners team England won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 16-under-par score of 704, two strokes ahead of team Wales on 2nd place. Neither four-times-champions Ireland, with 16-year-old future professional major winner Rory McIlroy in the team, or two-times-champions Sweden did make it to the quarter-finals, finishing tenth and eleventh respectively.^[3]

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Edoardo Molinari, Italy, with a 6-under-par score of 138, one stroke ahead of Nigel Edwards, Wales, Julien Guerrier, France, Gary Lockerbie, England and Mike Lorenzo-Vera, France.

Team England won the gold medal, earning their ninth title and first since 1991, beating team Germany in the final 6–1. The winning English team included 45-year-old Gary Wolstenholme and 16-year-old Oliver Fisher.^[4]

Team Switzerland, for the first time on the podium, earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 5–2 in the bronze match.

Results

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  England 362-342=704 −16 2  Wales 359-347=706 −14 3  Scotland 362-347=709 −11 4  France 359-353=712 −8 5  Spain 362-360=722 +2 6  Germany 381-353=734 +14 7  Switzerland 373-362=735 +15 8  Italy 375-361=736 +16 9  Denmark 377-363=740 +20 10  Ireland 378-364=742 +22 T11  Sweden * 380-364=744 +24  Netherlands 388-356=744 T13  Finland * 382-366=748 +28  Austria 379-369=748 T15  Iceland * 387-374=761 +41  Norway 380-381=761 17  Portugal 384-380=764 +44 18  Belgium 388-390=778 +58 19  Czech Republic 403-385=788 +68 20  Slovenia 414-377=791 +71 * Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.

Individual leaders Place Player Country Score To par 1 Edoardo Molinari  Italy 69-69=138 −6 T2 Nigel Edwards  Wales 69-70=139 −5 Julien Guerrier  France 73-66=139 Gary Lockerbie  England 70-69=139 Mike Lorenzo-Vera  France 69-70=139 6 James Williams  Wales 70-70=140 −4 T7 Oliver Fisher  England 73-68=141 −3 Richie Ramsay  Scotland 74-67=141 Gary Wolstenholme  England 72-69=141 Gareth Wright  Wales 73-69=141 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Switzerland 4        Wales 3    Germany 5.5        Switzerland 1.5    Germany 4        Scotland 3    England 6        Germany 1    France 5.5        Spain 1.5    England 5.5        France 1.5 Bronze match    England 5        Italy 2    Switzerland 5      France 2     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        Scotland 3.5        Wales 1.5    Scotland 4.5        Spain 0.5    Spain 4.5      Italy 0.5   Match for 7th place            Wales 3      Italy 2

Final games  England  Germany 6 1 J. Moul / O. Fisher S. Kirstein / C. Trunzer 2 & 1 G. Wolstenholme / M. Richardson 1 hole M. Kaymer / B. Miarka Gary Lockerbie 3 & 2 Martin Kaymer Matthew Richardson 1 hole Christopher Trunzer Jamie Moul 4 & 3 Stefan Kirstein Oliver Fisher 4 & 3 Benjamin Miarka Steven Tiley 6 & 4 Florian Fritsch

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Ireland 3.5        Iceland 1.5    Ireland 4.5        Austria 0.5    Austria 3.5        Sweden 1.5    Ireland 4        Netherlands 1    Netherlands 2.5        Finland 2.5    Netherlands 3.5        Norway 1.5 Match for 11th place    Norway 3        Denmark 2    Austria 3.5      Norway 1.5

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Sweden 3.5        Iceland 1.5    Sweden 3.5        Denmark 1.5    Denmark 3      Finland 2   Match for 15th place            Finland 4      Iceland 1

Flight C

First round  Portugal  Slovenia 4 1  Czech Republic  Belgium 3 2

Second round  Belgium  Slovenia 4 1  Portugal  Czech Republic 4 1

Third round  Czech Republic  Slovenia 4 1  Portugal  Belgium 3 2

Final standings

Place	Country
	England
	Germany
	Switzerland
4	France
5	Scotland
6	Spain
7	Wales
8	Italy
9	Ireland
10	Netherlands
11	Austria
12	Norway
13	Sweden
14	Denmark
15	Finland
16	Iceland
17	Portugal
18	Czech Republic
19	Belgium
20	Slovenia

Source:^[5][6][7]

See also

• European Golf Association – Organizer of European amateur golf championships
• Eisenhower Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.
• European Ladies' Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association.

References

1. "Hillside Golf Club". Hillside Golf Club. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
2. Brough, Harold. "GOLF: Welcome at Hillside for Europe's best amateurs". The Free Library. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
3. "GOLF : Irish find going tough at Hillside". Independent.ie. 29 June 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
4. Mattsson, Peter (August 2005). "Tävling, Ju äldre desto bättre – eller?" [Competition, The Older, the better – or?]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. p. 112. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
5. "2005 International European Team Championship Amateur". European Golf Association. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
6. "European Men's Team". Golf Bible The Home of Great British & Irish Amateur Golf. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
7. "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.

External links

• European Golf Association: Full results