Defending champion team Spain won the championship.
Venue
The hosting club was founded in 1923 by Rodolphe Seeldrayers. The Marache Course was designed by architect Fred Hawtree and established in 1961 in Ohain, Lasne, in the region of Wallon Brabant, close to the historic Waterloo battlefield, 20 kilometres south-east of the city center of Brussels, Belgium. The greens were renovated by Martin Hawtree, son of Fred Hawree, 2004–2005.[3]
Each team consisted of six players. On the first two days each player played 18 holes of stroke play each day. The lowest five scores from each team's six players counted to the team total each day.
The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the following 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. Extra holes were played in games that were all square after 18 holes. However, if the result of the team match was already decided, undecided games were declared halved.[5]
The teams outside the top eight in the stroke-play stage formed flight B, also played knock-out match-play, but with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
Teams
16 nation teams contested the event. Qualified were the top 13 teams from the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship, the host nation team Belgium and the two top teams from the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship Division 2. Each team consisted of six players.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
James Ashfield, Tomi Bowen, Caolan Burfold, Archie Davies, James Nash, Matt Roberts
Winners
Team Denmark led the opening 36-hole stroke-play competition with a 32-under-par score of 688, three strokes ahead of defending champion team Spain with team England in third place a further two strokes behind.
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was José Luis Ballester, Spain, with an 11-under-par score of 133, one stroke ahead of Barclay Brown, England.
Team Spain, with three players remaining from last years triumph, won the gold medal, playing their seventh final and earning their sixth title, beating team Denmark in the final 4–3.
^"Lag-EM så funkar det" [The European Amateur Team Championship, how it works] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^"Danmarks fire hold til EM er udtaget" [Denmark's four teams to European Team Championships are selevted]. Dansk Golf Union. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
