2011 European Amateur Team Championship

The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004. In 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.[4]

Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play 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 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 were allowed to play one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

The four teams placed 17–20 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Russia took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Austria	Hamza Amin, Philipp Fendt, Tono Kromer, Lukas Nemecz, Manuel Trappel, Christoph Weninger
Belgium	Xavier Feyaerts, Thomas Pieters, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Julien Richelle, Kevin Hesbois, Nick Ver Elst
Denmark	Lucas Bjerregaard, Victor Henum, Mads Søgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Thomas Sørensen, Sebastian Cappelen
England	Stiggy Hodgson, Jack Senior, Andy Sullivan, Darren Wright, Dave Coupland, Steven Brown
Finland	Tapio Pulkkanen, Tuomas Salminen, Toni Hakula, Niclas Hellberg, Miro Veijalainen, Roope Kangas
France	Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun, Édouard España, Sébastien Gros, Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal
Germany	Benedict Staben, Moritz Lampert, Sebastien Kannler, Stephan Jäger, Marcel Schneider, Philipp Westermann
Iceland	Axel Bóasson, Arnar Hakonarson, Gudjonn Hilmarsson, Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Alfred Brynjar Kristinsson, Ólafur Loftsson
Ireland	Paul Cutler, Kevin Phelan, Alan Dunbar, Eoin Arthurs, Pat Murray, Paul Dunne
Italy	Filippo Berganaschi, Francesco Laporta, Mattia Miloro, Leonardo Motto, Niccolò Quintarelli, Filippo Zuchetti
Netherlands	Dylan Boshart, Bernard Geelkerken, Daan Huizing, Robin Kind, Frank Van Hoof, Willem Vork
Scotland	James Byrne, Ross Kellett, David Law, Kris Nicol, Greg Paterson, Michael Stewart
Spain	Scott Fernandez, Adrian Otaegui, Nacho Elvira, Antonio Hortal, Juan Francisco Sarasti, Oliver Mena
Sweden	Pontus Widegren, Sebastian Söderberg, Pontus Gad, Nils Florén, Robert S. Karlsson, Niclas Carlsson
Switzerland	Marc Dobias, Benjamim Rusch, Arthur Gabella, Edouard Amacher, Victor Doka, Marco Iten
Wales	Rhys Enoch, Oliver Farr, James Frazer, Rhys Pugh, Ben Westgate, Joe Vickery

Other participating teams

Country
Norway
Portugal
Russia
Slovakia

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Spain, with a 24-under-par score of 696. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing ninth in the qualifying round.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Scott Fernandez, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 135, two strokes ahead of Adrián Otaegui, Spain and Thomas Pieters, Belgium.

Team France won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Switzerland in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.

Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Germany 4–3 in the bronze match.

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  Spain 338-358=696 −24 2  Germany 343-357=700 −20 3  France 340-362=702 −18 T4  Finland * 353-355=708 −12   Switzerland * 359-349=708  Ireland * 348-360=708  Scotland 359-349=708 8  Sweden 352-361=713 −7 9  England 353-363=716 −4 10  Iceland 356-362=718 −2 T11  Austria * 346-373=719 −1  Netherlands 359-360=719 13  Denmark 359-361=720 E 14  Italy 360-362=722 +2 15  Norway 362-365=727 +7 T16  Wales * 363-367=730 +10  Portugal 367-363=730 18  Belgium 366-371=737 +17 19  Slovakia 367-372=739 +19 20  Russia 379-402=781 +61 * 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 Scott Fernandez  Spain 66-69=135 −9 T2 Adrián Otaegui  Spain 70-67=137 −7 Thomas Pieters  Belgium 70-67=137 T4 Paul Cutler  Ireland 66-72=138 −6 Guðmundur Kristjánsson  Iceland 71-67=138 Ólafur Loftsson  Iceland 66-72=138 T7 Lucas Bjerregaard  Denmark 67-72=139 −5 James Byrne  Scotland 70-69=139 Marc Dobias   Switzerland 71-68=139 Alexander Lévy  France 66-73=139 Kevin Phelan  Ireland 68-71=139 Tapio Pulkkanen  Finland 71-68=139 Benedict Staben  Germany 69-70=138 Martin Tavoda  Slovakia 71-68=139 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Germany 4        Scotland 3    France 4.5        Germany 2.5    France 4.5        Ireland 2.5    France 4.5         Switzerland 2.5     Switzerland 5        Finland 2     Switzerland 4.5        Sweden 2.5 Bronze match    Sweden 5.5        Spain 1.5    Sweden 4      Germany 3     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        Scotland 3.5        Ireland 1.5    Spain 3.5        Scotland 1.5    Spain 5      Finland 0   Match for 7th place            Finland 3      Ireland 2

Final games  France   Switzerland 4.5 2.5 A. Lévy / G. Stal 2 up M. Dobias / A. Gabella C. Bouniol / É. España 20th hole B. Rusch / E. Amacher Alexander Lévy 5 & 4 Arthur Gabella Sébastian Gros AS * Marc Dobias AS * Julien Brun Benjamin Rusch 1 up Gary Stal Marco Iten 4 & 3 Édouard España 3 & 2 Edouard Amacher * Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Norway 4        Iceland 1    Austria 3        Norway 2    Austria 4        Italy 1    Wales 3.5        Austria 1.5    Denmark 3.5        Netherlands 1.5    Wales 3.5        Denmark 1.5 Match for 11th place    Wales 4        England 1    Denmark 4      Norway 1

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Italy 4        Iceland 1    Italy 3.5        Netherlands 1.5    Netherlands 3      England 2   Match for 15th place            England 4      Iceland 1

Flight C

First round  Belgium  Slovakia 3.5 1.5  Portugal  Russia 5 0

Second round  Belgium  Russia 4 1  Portugal  Slovakia 5 0

Third round  Slovakia  Russia 4 1  Portugal  Belgium 4.5 0.5

Final standings

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

Source:[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