2014 European Amateur Team Championship

The course, situated 5 kilometres east of Hämeenlinna, located in the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of Finland, 98 kilometres north of Helsinki, was designed by Tim Lobb in cooperation with European Tour Design and opened in 2005.[2][3]

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.[4] 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 played 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.

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

Players in the participating teams

Country	Players
Austria	Markus Habeler, Markus Maukner, Lukas Lipold, Sebastian Wittmann, Patrick Oswald, Robin Goger
Belgium	Thomas Detry, Samuel Echikson, Dédric Van Wassenhove, Kevin Hesbois, Maxence De Craecker, Gil Debusscher
Denmark	Niklas Nørgaard Møller, John Axelsen, Victor Henum, Martin Leth Simonsen, Nicolai Tinning, Nicolai Kristensen
England	Ashley Chesters, Ryan Evans, Paul Howard, Toby Tree, Jordan Smith, Ben Stow
Finland	Linus Väisänen, Lauri Ruuska, Albert Eckhardt, Erik Myllimäki, Miki Kuronen, Kristian Kulokorpi
France	Paul Barjon, Léonard Bem, Julien Brun, Ugo Coussaud, Mathieu Fenasse, Clément Sordet
Germany	Maximillian Bögel, Hurly Long, Maximilian Mehles, Yannik Paul, Maximilian Röhrig, Maximilian Rottluff
Iceland	Gisli Sveinbergsson, Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Haraldur Franklin, Andri Björnsson, Bjarki Petursson, Ragnar Gardarsson
Ireland	Paul Dunne, Jack Hume, Gary Hurley, Dermot McElroy, Gavin Moynihan, Cormac Sharvin
Italy	Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, Enrico Di Nitto, Riccardo Michelini, Federico Zuchetti, Paolo Ferraris, Filippo Campigli
Netherlands	Darius Van Driel, Robbie Van West, Jeroen Krietemeijer, Lars van Meijel, Michael Kraaij, Rowin Caron
Portugal	João Carlota, Tomás Silva, Vitor Lopes, João Magalhaes, Gonçalo Costa, João Girao
Scotland	Grant Forrest, Jack McDonald, Bradley Neil, Graeme Robertson, James Ross, Jamie Savage
Spain	Pep Anglès, Daniel Berná, Emilio Cuartero, Mario Galiano, Scott Fernández, Jon Rahm
Sweden	Oskar Bergqvist, Tobias Edén, Niklas Lindström, Hannes Rönneblad, Victor Tärnström, Axel Östensson
Switzerland	Edouard Amacher, Mathias Eggenberger, Joel Girbach, Marco Iten, Benjamin Rusch, Philippe Schweizer

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team England with a 20-under-par score of 700, three strokes ahead of team Spain. Sweden, on third place, was another ten strokes behind.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Ryan Evans, England, with an 11-under-par score of 133, one stroke ahead of Hurly Long, Germany.

Team Spain won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating team Ireland in the final 4½–2½.

Team England, earned the bronze on third place, after beating neighbor nation Scotland 4½–2½ in the bronze match.

A second division, named European Amateur Championship Division 2, took place 9 – 12 July 2014 in the Czech Republic. The three best placed teams, Wales, Poland and the Czech Republic qualified for the 2015 European Amateur Team Championship.[5]

Iceland, Portugal and Austria placed 14th, 15th and 16th in the 2014 championship and were moved to Division 2 for 2015.

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  England 355-345=700 −20 2  Spain 347-356=703 −17 3  Sweden 357-350=707 −13 4  Ireland 355-354=709 −11 T5  Germany * 360-350=710 −10  Scotland 356-354=710 7  France 354-357=711 −9 8   Switzerland 355-360=715 −5 9  Italy 355-362=717 −3 10  Denmark 360-358=718 −2 11  Belgium 360-359=719 −1 12  Netherlands 358-363=721 +1 13  Finland 356-367=723 +3 14  Austria 366-369=735 +15 15  Iceland 375-361=736 +16 16  Portugal 383-363=746 +26 * 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 Ryan Evans  England 68-65=133 −11 2 Hurly Long  Germany 68-66=134 −10 3 Grant Forrest  Scotland 70-65=135 −9 T4 Thomas Detry  Belgium 67-69=136 −8 Niklas Nørgaard Møller  Denmark 66-70=136 6 Mathieu Fenasse  France 66-71=137 −7 T7 Samuel Echison  Belgium 67-71=138 −6 Gavin Moynihan  Ireland 71-67=138 T9 Pep Anglès  Spain 72-67=139 −5 Tobias Edén  Sweden 70-69=139 Axel Östensson  Sweden 70-69=139 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

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

Final games  Spain  Ireland 5 2 M. Galiano / P. Angles 1 up J. Hume / G. Monyhan J. Rahm / S. Fernandez P. Dunne / G. Hurley 1 up Pep Anglés 6 & 4 Gavin Monyhan Mario Galiano 4 & 3 Comac Sharvin Jon Rahm 5 & 4 Dermot McElroy Scott Fernandez AS * Paul Dunne AS * Emilio Cuartero AS * Gary Hurley AS * * Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Italy 5        Portugal 0    Italy 3        Netherlands 2    Netherlands 3.5        Finland 1.5    Italy 3.5        Belgium 1.5    Belgium 3        Austria 2    Belgium 3        Denmark 2 Match for 11th place    Denmark 4        Iceland 1    Denmark 3      Netherlands 2

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Finland 3        Portugal 2    Finland 5        Iceland 0    Iceland 3.5      Austria 1.5   Match for 15th place            Portugal 3.5      Austria 1.5

Final standings

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

Source:[1][6]

• 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