2018 European Amateur Team Championship

The hosting course, designed by Sir Nick Faldo, located in Bad Saarow, Germany, 50 kilometres south-east of the city center of Berlin, opened in 1996.[1] It had previously hosted the 2000 Eisenhower Trophy and Espirito Santo Trophy.

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Each team consisted of 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.[2]

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. Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Serbia qualified by finishing first, second, third and fourth at the 2017 Division 2. Serbia, taking part for the first time, qualified since last year's silver medalist Norway did not take part. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Austria	Luca Denk, Gerold Folk, Lukas Lipold, Oliver Rath, Niklas Regner, Maximilian Steinlechner
Denmark	John Axelsen, Gustav Frimodt, Andreas Hillersborg Sorensen, Nicolai Højgaard, Rasmus Højgaard, Morten Toft Hansen
England	Todd Clements, David Hague, Matthew Jordan, Gian-Marco Petrozzi, Nick Poppleton, Mitch Waite
Finland	Matias Honkala, Jonatan Jolkkonen, Santeri Lehesmaa, Veeti Mähönen, Aleksi Myllymäki, Sami Välimäki
France	Edgar Catherine, Jeremy Gandon, Frédéric Lacroix, Adrien Pendaries, Hubert Tisserand, Victor Veyret
Germany	Jannik de Bruyn, Hurly Long, Marc Hammer, Falko Hanisch, Michael Hirmer, Timo Vahlenkamp
Ireland	Robin Dawson, Alex Gleeson, Rowan Lester, John Murphy, Caolan Rafferty, Jonathan Yates
Italy	Alberto Castagnara, Giulio Castagnara, Francesco Donaggio, Giovanni Manzoni, Stefano Mazzoli, Lorenzo Scalise
Netherlands	Dario Antonisse, Koen Kouwenaar, Stan Kraai, Peter Melching, Nordin Van Tilburg, Vince Van Veen
Scotland	Stuart Easton, Ryan Lumsden, Euan McIntosh, Sandy Scott, Jamie Stewart, Euan Walker
Spain	Alejandro del Rey, Manuel Elvira, Ángel Hidalgo, Jorge Maicas, Adrián Mata, Victor Pastor
Sweden	Oliver Gillberg, David Nyfjäll, Pontus Nyholm, Jesper Svensson, Tim Widing, Ludvig Åberg

Other participating teams

Country
Czech Republic
Iceland
Portugal
Serbia

Tied leaders of the opening 36-hole competition were team Sweden and team England, each with a 27-under-par score of 693, eleven strokes ahead of team Denmark. Sweden earned first place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host country Germany, on fourth place, was another stroke behind.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Gian-Marco Petrozzi, England, with a 12-under-par score of 132, two strokes ahead of three players.

Team Finland won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating eleven-times-champion team England in the final 5–2. Team Finland finished 16th and last at the 2016 championship and was moved to the second division for 2017. They came back to the championship for 2018, finishing 8th at the initial qualifying competition and made the quarter-finals by a single stroke.

Denmark earned the bronze on third place, after beating host country Germany 5–2 in the bronze match.

Italy, Portugal and Serbia placed 14th, 15th and 16th and was moved to Division 2 for 2019, to be replaced by Belgium, Slovenia, and Wales, who finished first, second, and third respectively in the 2018 Division 2.[3][4]

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par T1  Sweden * 351-342=693 −27  England 349-344=693 3  Denmark 353-351=704 −16 4  Germany 360-345=705 −15 5  Spain 358-349=707 −13 6  Scotland 357-352=709 −11 7  France 353-358=711 −9 8  Finland 354-364=718 −2 9  Ireland 359-360=719 −1 10  Austria 367-355=722 +2 T11  Netherlands 356-367=723 +3  Italy 367-356=723 13  Iceland 360-370=730 +10 T14  Portugal * 370-361=731 +11  Czech Republic 369-363=731 16  Serbia 401-390=791 +71 * 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 Gian-Marco Petrozzi  England 62-70=132 −12 T2 Ángel Hidalgo  Spain 69-65=134 −10 Hurly Long  Germany 71-63=134 Ludvig Åberg  Sweden 67-67=134 T5 Matthew Jordan  England 69-66=135 −9 John Murphy  Ireland 68-67=135 Lorenzo Filippo Scalise  Italy 65-70=135 8 Nicolai Højgaard  Denmark 66-68=136 −8 T9 Marc Hammer  Germany 71-68=139 −5 Matias Honkala  Finland 68-71=139 Frédéric Lacroix  France 67-72=139 Lukas Lipold  Austria 72-67=139 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Finland 4        Sweden 3    Finland 4        Germany 3    Germany 4        Spain 3    Finland 5        England 2    Denmark 4.5        Scotland 2.5    England 4        Denmark 3 Bronze match    England 6        France 1    Denmark 5      Germany 2     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        Spain 3        Sweden 2    France 3.5        Spain 1.5    France 3.5      Scotland 1.5   Match for 7th place            Sweden 3      Scotland 2

Final games  Finland  England 5 2 M. Honkala / A. Myllymäki 2 & 1 M. Jordan / G.-M Petrozzi S. Välimäki / V. Mähönen 5 & 4 D. Hague / N. Poppleton Santeri Lehesmaa AS * Matthew Jordan AS * Matias Honkala 2 & 1 Mitch Waite Sami Välimäki G.-M. Petrozzi 2 & 1 Veeti Mähönen 2 & 1 Todd Clements Aleksi Myllymäki AS * David Hague AS * * Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Ireland 5        Serbia 0    Ireland 3.5        Iceland 1.5    Iceland 3        Italy 2    Netherlands 3        Ireland 2    Netherlands 4.5        Portugal 0.5    Netherlands 4        Czech Republic 1 Match for 11th place    Czech Republic 4.5        Austria 0.5    Iceland 4      Czech Republic 1

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Italy 3        Serbia 2    Austria 3        Italy 2    Austria 4      Portugal 1   Match for 15th place            Portugal 4      Serbia 1

Final standings

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

Sources:[3][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