The 2008 European Amateur Team Championship took place 1–5 July at Royal Park Golf & Country Club in Fiano, Italy. It was the 26th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.[1]
It was the first time the championship was played in consecutive years, since its inauguration in 1959.[1]
Venue
The club was founded in 1971 by the Agnelli family. Its first course, the Allianz Course, a parkland and forest course, in Fiano, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of Turin, in the region Piedmont, Italy, was designed the same year by Robert Trent Jones Sr. The course had previously hosted the 2009–2012 Italian Open on the European Tour.[2]
Format
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 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. 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.[1]
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.
Teams
20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Poland took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.[1][3][4]
Players in the teams
Winners
Five-time-winners team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 22-under-par score of 698. Tied five strokes behind were team Sweden and team Germany. Sweden earned 2nd place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host nation Italy, with 15-year-old future European Tour winner Matteo Manassero in the team, finished 5th.[1]
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader were Wallace Booth, Scotland, with a 10-under-par score of 134, two strokes ahead of Jorge Campillo, Spain, and Callum Macaulay, Scotland.
Defending champions team Ireland, led by team captain Michael Burns, won the gold medal, earning their sixth title, beating team England in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The winning Irish team, combined from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, included future professional major winner 21-year-old Shane Lowry.[5][6]
Team Germany, earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 4–3 in the bronze match.[5][6]
Results
Qualification round
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Team standings
* 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
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score. |
Flight A
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Bracket
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Final games
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Flight B
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Flight C
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First round
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Second round
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Third round
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Final standings
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 Ireland
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 England
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 Germany
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| 4 |  France
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| 5 |  Scotland
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| 6 |  Spain
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| 7 |  Sweden
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| 8 |  Italy
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| 9 |  Netherlands
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| 10 |  Austria
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| 11 |  Denmark
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| 12 |  Portugal
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| 13 |  Norway
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| 14 |  Wales
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| 15 |  Belgium
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| 16 |  Finland
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| 17 |  Iceland
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| 18 |  Switzerland
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| 19 |  Poland
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| 20 |  Estonia
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See also
- European Golf Association – Organizer of European amateur golf championships
- 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.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "European Amateur Team Championship , Results, 2008 - Royal Park G&CC, Turin, Italy". European Golf Association. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ "Royal Park G&CC, Allianz Course by Trent Jones Sr". Royal Park Golf & Country Club. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ "Welsh golf stars named for European team championships". Golf Monthly. 30 June 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" (PDF). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ a b c "Ireland clinch Euro title for fifth time". Irish Examiner. 5 July 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "2008 European Amateur Men's Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 13 May 2021.