1963 European Ladies' Team Championship

The 1963 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 16–21 July on the Rungsted Golf Club 15 kilometres south of Helsingør, Denmark. It was the third ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.

1963 European Ladies' Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates16–21 July 1963
LocationRungsted Kyst, Denmark
55°53′N 12°32′E
Course(s)Rungsted Golf Club
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
Format36 holes stroke play
round-robin system match play
Statistics
Par73
Field8 teams
circa 40 players
Champion
 Belgium
Juliette de Schutter, Josyane Leysen,
J. Vivario, Arlette Engel-Jacquet, Louise Van den Berghe
Qualification round: 476 (+38)
Flight A matches: 6 points
Location Map
Rungsted Golf Club is located in Europe
Rungsted Golf Club
Rungsted Golf Club
Location in Europe
Rungsted Golf Club is located in Denmark
Rungsted Golf Club
Rungsted Golf Club
Location in Denmark

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. Since team West Germany was disqualified, there were three remaining teams and they 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

Eight nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.

Players in the leading teams

CountryPlayers
 Belgium Juliette de Schutter, Josyane Leysen, J. Vivario, Arlette Engel-Jacquet, Louise Van den Berghe
 Denmark Bjørg Dam, Vibeke Knudsen, Tove Palsby Geertz, Anette Slebsager, Karin Vang Sigumfeldt Birch
 France Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan-Giraud, Ghintran, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain), Brigitte Varangot
 SwedenLiv Forsell, Ann-Marie Brynolf, Britt Matsson, Cecilia Rosenqvist, Ann-Katrin Svensson, Louise Johansson Wingård
 West Germany Marietta Gütermann, Barbara Hobirk, Monika Möller, Marion Petersen, Monika Steegman

Other participating teams

Country
 Italy
 Netherlands
 Spain

Winners

Team Belgium won the championship for the first time. Defending champions team France earned second place, on the same number of match points as Belgium, but with fewer won game points. The championship was decided in the last match between Belgium and France and the last single game between Josyane Leysen, Belgium and Lally de Saint-Sauveur, France. The game was tied going into the last hole were both players had putts for birdie. After Segard had failed to make her putt, Leysen made her birdie putt from 5 meters, why Leysen won the game and Belgium tied the match.[1]

Sweden, for the first time on the podium, earned third place. Host nation Denmark made their first appearance in the championship and finished fourth.

Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Liv Forsell, Sweden, with a score of 5-over-par 151.

Results

Qualification rounds

Flight A

Team matches

Team standings

CountryPlaceWTLGame pointsPoints
 Belgium121011.5–6.55
 France221010–85
 Sweden31017–112
 Denmark40126.5–11.50

Flight B

Team matches

Team standings

Country Place W T L Game points Points
 Italy 5 2 0 0 9.5–2.5 4
 Netherlands 6 1 0 1 6–6 2
 Spain 7 0 0 2 2.5–9.5 0

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Belgium
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden
4  Denmark
5  Italy
6  Netherlands
7  Spain

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

See also

References

  1. "Pressande långputt avgjorde dam-EM" [Tough long putt decided the Ladies' European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 5. August 1963. pp. 16–22. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. "Europeiska Amatör Mästerskapen för damer" [European Ladies' Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 9–10. December 1963. p. 35. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 182. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  4. Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  6. "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.
  7. Suhr-Jensen, Annette (September 2020). "Karin Birch En av KGK's Danmarksmestre, Første VM i golf för kvinder" [Karin Birch One of KGK's Denmark champions, The first world championships in Golf for women]. Eremitagen, Medlemsblad for Københavns Golf Klub (in Danish). No. 81. p. 18. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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