1973 European Amateur Team Championship

The tournament was played at the resort's 18-hole Championship Course, originally called The Penina, founded by John Stilwell and designed by Sir Henry Cotton. The course was set up with par 35 over the first nine holes and par 38 on the second nine, finishing with two par 5 holes.

The weather was warm and sunny during the whole tournament.

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with six players, counted the five best scores 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. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the morning foursome matches and five players in to the afternoon single matches.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B to play similar knock-out play and the four teams placed 15–18 formed Flight C to meet each other, to decide their final positions.

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

Country	Players
Austria	Johann Egger, Michel Kotchwar, Ekki Lantschner, Peter Nierlich, Helmuth Reichel, Lampert Stolz
Belgium	John Bigwood, Yves Brose, Michel Eaton, Yves Mahain, Freddy Rodesch, Jean Rolin
Denmark	Kjeld Friche, Klaus Hove, Henry Knudsen, John Nielsen, Hans Stenderup, Ole Wiberg-Jørgensen
England	John Davies, Rodney Foster, Peter Hedges, Trevor Homer, Michael King, Roger Revell
Finland	Asko Arkola, Juhani Hämäläinen, Harry Safonoff, Kari Salonen, Juha Utter, Lauri Wirkala
France	Patrick Cotton, Hervé Frayssineau, Alexis Godillot, Roger Lagarde, George Leven, Philippe Ploujoux
Iceland	Torbjörn Kjaerbo, Einar Gudnason, J. Guomundsson, Lofter Olafsson, Björgvin Thorsteinsson, Ottar Yngvarson
Ireland	David Corcoran, Hugh MacKeown, Vincent Nevin, Robert Pollin, Des Smyth, Rupert Staunton
Italy	Alberto Croze, Franco Gigliarelli, Delio Lovato, Alberto Schiaffino, Lorenzo Silva, Carlo Tadini
Netherlands	Carel Braun, Lout Meertens, Jaap van Neck, Teun Rozenburg, Piet-Hein Streutgers, Victor Swane
Norway	Per Aarum, Erik Dønnestad, Petter Dønnestad, Yngve Eriksen, Johan Horn, Christian Staubo
Portugal	Rodrico M. Bivar, Nuno A. de Brito a Cunha, Pedro d'Hommee Caupers, Antonio Carmona Santos, Jorge H. Soares, José Lara de Sousa e Melo
Scotland	Allan Brodie, Charlie Green, Ian Hutcheon, George MacGregor, Willie Milne, Hugh Stuart
Spain	Santiago Fernández, José Gancedo, Nicasio Sagardia, Francisco Sanchiz, Miguel Taya, Román Taya
Sweden	Olle Dahlgren, Jan Grönkwist, Hans Hedjerson, Staffan Mannerström, Jan Rube, Per-Roland Quist
Switzerland	Yves Hofstetter, Martin Kessler, Uli Lamm, Jürg Pesko, Michel Rey, Johnny Storjohann
Wales	Clive Brown, Simon Cox, Ted Davies, John Roger Jones, Jeff Toye, John Povall
West Germany	Heinrich Adam, Hans Lampert, Christoph Städler, Veit Pagel, Jürgen Weghmann

Defending champions England won the gold medal, earning their fourth title, beating, just as at the previous event, Scotland in the final, this time with 4–3. Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4–3 in the bronze match.

Individual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was John Davies, England, Yves Hofstetter, Switzerland and Willie Milne, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 2-under-par 71. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  Scotland 374 +9 2  England 376 +11 3  France 377 +12 4  Sweden 378 +13 5   Switzerland 381 +16 6  Spain 389 +24 7  Wales 390 +25 8  West Germany 391 +26 9  Denmark 395 +30 10  Italy 396 +31 11  Ireland 398 +33 12  Finland 399 +34 13  Netherlands 403 +38 14  Norway 407 +42 15  Belgium 409 +44 16  Portugal 414 +49 T17  Austria * 429 +64  Iceland 429 * Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.

Individual leaders Place Player Country Score To par T1 John Davies  England 71 −2 Yves Hofstetter   Switzerland 71 Willie Milne  Scotland 71 T4 Hans Hedjerson  Sweden 72 −1 Charlie Green  Scotland 72 T6 Rodney Foster  England 73 E Alexis Godillot  France 73 Kari Salonen  Finland 73 Román Taya  Spain 73 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                England 5        Wales 2    England 6        Spain 1    Spain 4        France 3    England 4        Scotland 3    Sweden 4         Switzerland 3    Scotland 5        Sweden 2 Bronze match    Scotland 7        West Germany 0    Sweden 4      Spain 3     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        France 4.5        Wales 2.5    France 5.5         Switzerland 1.5     Switzerland 4.5      West Germany 2.5   Match for 7th place            West Germany 5.5      Wales 1.5

Final games  England  Scotland 4 3 P. Hedges / M. King 7 & 6 H. Stuart / W. Milne R. Foster / T. Homer 20th C. Green / G. MacGregor John Davies Hugh Stuart 3 & 2 Rodney Foster 2 & 1 Charlie Green Michael King Willie Milne 1 hole Peter Hedges 2 & 1 George MacGregor Trevor Homer Ian Hurcheon 3 & 2

Flight B

Elimination matches  Norway  Ireland 4 3  Netherlands  Finland 4 3  Norway  Italy 4 3  Denmark  Netherlands 6 1

Match for 13th place  Ireland  Finland 5 2 Match for 11th place  Italy  Netherlands 4 3 Match for 9th place  Denmark  Norway 4 3

Flight C

Round 1  Portugal  Austria 5.5 1.5  Belgium  Iceland 7 0

Round 2  Portugal  Iceland 5 2  Belgium  Austria 7 0

Round 3  Iceland  Austria 4.5 2.5  Belgium  Portugal 4 3

Final standings

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

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

• 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.

• European Golf Association: Full results