The 1970 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 30 September – 3 October at the Negro course at the R.S.H.E. Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain. Several years later, in the late 1970s, the course became home of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, while the R.S.H.E Club moved to another location, north of the Madrid city.[1]
It was the fourth women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 22 three-woman teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.
The United States team won the Trophy, defending their title from two years ago and winning their third consecutive title, beating France by one stroke. France took the silver medal while South Africa, seven strokes further behind, for the first time on the podium in the championship, took the bronze.[2]
Teams
22 teams contested the event. Each team had three players.
| Country | Players |
|---|---|
 Argentina
|
Maria Julia Caserta de Aftalion, Silvia Bertolaccini, Beatriz Rossello |
 Australia
|
Robyn N. Dummett, Lindy G. Jennings, Rhys Wright |
 Belgium
|
Corinne Reybroeck, Louise van den Berghe, Marie Anne Touissant |
 Brazil
|
Yolanda Figueiredo, Elizabeth N. Noranha, Irene Ribeiro |
 Canada
|
Joycelyne Bourassa, Gail Harvey Moore, Marlene Stewart Streit |
 China
|
Eva Chih-Hua Chang, Yu-Hwa Pan, Ming-Yueh Wu |
 France
|
Claudine Cros Rubin, Catherine Lacoste, Brigitte Varangot |
 Great Britain & Ireland
|
Mary McKenna, Dinah Oxley, Julia Greenhalgh |
 Italy
|
Isa Goldschmidt Bevione, Bianca Martini Crotti, Marina Ragher |
 Japan
|
Kazuko Kabayashi, Fasako Masui, Masuyo Toyama |
 Netherlands
|
Alice Janmaat, Marischka Swane, Joyce de Witt Puyt |
 New Zealand
|
Heather Booth, Cushla Sullivan, Glennis Taylor |
 Norway
|
Bebban Björge, Vivi Marstrand Horn, Mette Rinde Reuss |
 Philippines
|
Mercedes Feliclano, Nora Mateo, Vicky Pertierra |
 South Africa
|
Judy Angel, Jeanette Burd, Sally Knight Little |
 Spain
|
Condesa de Albox, Emma Villacieros de García-Ogara, Cristina Marsans |
 Sweden
|
Liv Forsell, Birgit Forsman, Christina Westerberg |
 Switzerland
|
Astrid Bek, Margrit Burki, Jacqueline Stucki |
 United States
|
Jane Bastachury Booth, Cindy Hill, Martha Wilkinson |
 Uruguay
|
Gladys C. De Bragard, Madelon Paez Vilaro, Rosina F. De Pons |
 Venezuela
|
Susana Ortega, Elizabeth Tovar, Doris Wright |
 West Germany
|
Marietta Gutermann, Marion Peterson, Katherina Trebitsch |
Results
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
|
United States
|
145-153-149-151=598 | +14 |
|
France
|
141-150-154-154=599 | +15 |
|
South Africa
|
154-152-150-150=606 | +22 |
| 4 | Canada
|
150-150-153-157=610 | +26 |
| 5 | Argentina
|
154-154-161-155=624 | +40 |
| 6 | Great Britain & Ireland
|
155-156-157-158=626 | +42 |
| 7 | Australia
|
151-162-156-160=629 | +45 |
| 8 | West Germany
|
155-161-153-161=630 | +46 |
| T9 | Belgium
|
157-159-151-165=632 | +48 |
| Italy
|
156-161-154-161=632 | ||
| Sweden
|
154-163-157-158=632 | ||
| 12 | China
|
155-159-154-165=633 | +49 |
| 13 | Spain
|
160-161-152-161=634 | +50 |
| 14 | Netherlands
|
157-166-158-159=640 | +56 |
| 15 | Philippines
|
159-164-160-159=642 | +58 |
| 16 | New Zealand
|
160-162-164-167=653 | +69 |
| 17 | Brazil
|
162-167-165-169=663 | +79 |
| 18 | Japan
|
173-167-168-162=670 | +86 |
| T19 | Uruguay
|
173-159-170-170=672 | +88 |
| Switzerland
|
162-168-173-170=673 | ||
| 21 | Norway
|
169-164-167-176=676 | +91 |
| 22 | Venezuela
|
176-174-167-180=697 | +112 |
Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sally Knight Little | South Africa
|
76-74-74-75=299 | +7 |
| 2 | Jane Bastachury Booth | United States
|
73-78-74-77=302 | +10 |
| Catherine Lacoste | France
|
74-74-76-78=302 | ||
| Marlene Stewart Streit | Canada
|
75-73-75-79=302 | ||
| T5 | Claudine Cros Rubin | France
|
70-76-81-76=303 | +11 |
| Martha Wilkinson | United States
|
79-75-75-74=303 | ||
| 7 | Brigitte Varangot | France
|
71-76-78-79=304 | +12 |
| T8 | Cindy Hill | United States
|
72-78-77-78=305 | +13 |
| Dinah Oxley | Great Britain & Ireland
|
76-77-75-77=305 | ||
| Corinne Reybroeck | Belgium
|
75-77-73-80=305 | ||
| 11 | Liv Forsell | Sweden
|
76-79-75-77=307 | +15 |
References
- ^ "Top 100 Golf Courses, Club de Campo Villa de Madrid (Negro) - Central Spain - Spain". Top 100 Golf Courses Ltd, Bideford, Devon, U.K. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Record Book 1970 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ^ "World Amateur Team Championships – Women's Records". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 168–170, 174–175. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9172603283.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 184. ISBN 91-86818007.