1959 European Ladies' Team Championship
The 1959 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 15–20 September on the Golf und Land Club Köln outside Cologne, Germany. It was the first ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 15–20 September 1959 |
| Location | Cologne, Germany 50°58′N 7°8′E |
| Course(s) | Golf und Land Club Köln |
| Organized by | European Golf Association |
| Format | 36 holes stroke play round-robin system match play |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 74 |
| Length | 5,987 yards (5,475 m) |
| Field | 6 teams circa 30 players |
| Champion | |
 FranceClaudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (captain and substitute player), Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot | |
| Qualification round: 447 (+3) Flight A matches: 6 points | |
| Location Map | |
Venue
The hosting club was founded in 1906 and the championship 18-hole course, situated 10 kilometres east of the city center of Cologne, opened in 1955. The course set up of par 74 had four par-3-holes, eight par-4-holes and six par-5-holes.
The championship course was set up with par 74.
Format
All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next two teams formed flight B.
The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, two foursome games and four single games were played.
Teams
Six nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.
Players in some of the teams
| Country | Players |
|---|---|
| France | Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain)*, Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot |
 Italy |
Rosanna Bergamo, Wanda Bohus Rosa, Paula Cobianchi, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione (playing captain), Pinto |
 Sweden | Gertrud Ahlberg, Marianne Bergengren, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Britt Matsson, Margareta Warberg |
 West Germany |
Ilse Groos, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger, Inez Stille |
* Note: Playing captain Lally de Saint-Sauveur did not play the qualification round and played one single game and two foursome games in flight A.
Other participating teams
| Country |
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 Netherlands |
Winners
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, France, with a score of 5-under-par 143.
Team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A.
Results
Qualification rounds
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Team standings
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Individual leader
Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
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Team matches
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Team standings
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Flight B
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Team match
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Team standings
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Final standings
| Place | Country |
|---|---|
 | France |
 | Italy |
 | Belgium |
| 4 | Netherlands |
| T5 | Sweden |
| West Germany |
See also
- Espirito Santo Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organized by the International Golf Federation.
- European Amateur Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association.
References
- Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 182. ISBN 9172603283.
- Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007.
- "Fransyskorna suveräna i damernas EM" [The French ladies excelled in the European Ladies' Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. September 1959. pp. 3–5. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.