1983 European Amateur Team Championship

The hosting club was founded in 1909. The Vineuil Course, situated in Chantilly, in the forest of the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the center of Paris, close to the Château de Chantilly and Chantilly Racecourse, was originally designed by John Henry Taylor and later redesigned by Tom Simpson and Donald Steel. It had previously hosted eight editions of the Open de France.

For the 1983 European Amateur Team Championship, the course was set up with par 71 over 7,108 yards.

Each team consisted of five or six players, playing two rounds of an opening stroke-play qualifying competition 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. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–19 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Denmark	Henry Knudsen, Leif Nyholm, Jacob Rasmussen, Søren Rolner, Anders Sørensen, Steen Tinning
England	Peter Hedges, Stephen Keppler, Peter McEvoy, Andrew Oldcorn, Jonathan Plaxton, Martin Thompson
France	Sven Boinet, Alexis Godillot, Marc Pendariès, Eric Pery, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-Louis Schneider
Ireland	John Carr, Tom Cleary, Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris, Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton
Italy	Mauro Bianco, Alberto Binaghi, Emanuele Bolognesi, Andrea Canessa, Silvio Grappasonni, Sergio Prati
Norway	Eric Bjerkholt, Tom Fredriksen, Gard Midtvåge, Ragnvald Risan, Tore Christian Sviland, Lars-Erik Underthun
Scotland	Frank Coutts, Colin Dalgleish, George MacGregor, Lindsay Mann, Stephen McAllister, J.A. Thomson
Spain	Ignacio Gervás, Julián García-Mayoral, José María Olazábal, Alejo Ollé, Borja Queipo de Llano, Román Taya
Sweden	Thomas Andersson, Antero Baburin, Magnus Hennberg, Per Jönsson, Anders Sandgren, Björn Svedin
Wales	R.D. Broad, G. Davies, John Roger Jones, David McLean, Philip Parkin, D.K. Wood
West Germany	Thomas Dekorsy, Hans-Günter Reiter, Frank Schlig, Ulrich Schulte, Christoph Städler, Ralf Thielemann

Other participating teams

Country
Austria
Belgium
Finland
Greece
Iceland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland

Team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 8 over par 718.

Individual leader was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 8-under-par 134, five strokes ahead of Tore Christian Sviland, Norway. In his second round, McEvoy scored 8 birdies and 10 pars for an 8-under-par 63 score on the Chantilly course.

Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Spain in the final 5–2. Team Italy earned the bronze on third place, after beating Scotland 4–3 in the bronze match.

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  Scotland 718 +8 2  England 721 +11 3  Italy 725 +15 4  Ireland 730 +20 5  France 733 +23 6  Denmark 737 +27 7  Spain 739 +29 T8  Norway * 747 +37  West Germany 747 10  Sweden 748 +38 11  Wales 750 +40 12   Switzerland 754 +44 13  Belgium 758 +48 14  Finland 773 +63 15  Greece 775 +65 16  Netherlands 781 +71 17  Austria 785 +75 18  Iceland 808 +88 19  Luxembourg 849 +139 * 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 Peter McEvoy  England 71-63=134 −8 2 Tore Sviland  Norway 69-70=139 −3 T3 Alberto Binaghi  Italy 70-71=141 −1 Lindsay Mann  Scotland 71-70=141 T5 Frank Coutts  Scotland 71-71=142 E T6 Thierry Goosens  Belgium 72-71=143 +1 Philip Parkin  Wales 73-70=143 Steen Tinning  Denmark 74-69=143 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Spain 4        England 3    Spain 4.5        Italy 2.5    Italy 4        Denmark 3    Ireland 5        Spain 2    Ireland 6        France 1    Ireland 4        Scotland 3 Bronze match    Scotland 4        Norway 3    Italy 4      Scotland 3     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        England 6        Denmark 1    England 4.5        France 2.5    France 7      Norway 0   Match for 7th place            Denmark 5      Norway 2

Final games  Ireland  Spain 5 2 P. Walton / G. McGimpsey 4 & 3 A. Ollé / J. Garcia-Mayoral A. Pierse / J. Carr 22nd hole J.M. Olazábal / I. Gervás Philip Walton 4 & 3 Alejo Ollé Arthur Pierse AS * Borjan Quiepo de Llano AS * Garth McGimpsey 2 & 1 Román Taya 2 & 1 Mick Morris AS * Ignacio Gervás AS * Tom Cleary José María Olazábal 8 & 7 * Note: Games declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

	Round 1				Round 2				Match for 9th place
	Sweden	6
	Greece	1
					Sweden	6
					Wales	1
	Wales	5
	Finland	2
									Sweden	5
									Switzerland	2
	Switzerland	4
	Belgium	3
					Switzerland	4
					West Germany	3			Match for 11th place
									West Germany	4.5
									Wales	2.5

	Round 1				Match for 13th place
					Finland	4.5
					Belgium	2.5

Flight C

	Round 1				Match for 16th place
	Austria	5
	Iceland	2
					Austria	5
					Netherlands	2
	Netherlands	4.5
	Luxembourg	2.5
					Match for 18th place
					Iceland	5
					Luxembourg	2

Final standings

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

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

• 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