1993 European Amateur Team Championship

The 1993 European Amateur Team Championship took place 30 June – 4 July at Golf Club Mariánské Lázně, later renamed Royal Golf Club Mariánské Lázně, 6 kilometres from the Mariánské Lázně town (called Marienbad in German) in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It was the 18th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting Golf Club Mariánské Lázně was later renamed Royal Golf Club Mariánské Lázně. Its first 9-hole course, located 6 kilometres from the Mariánské Lázně town (called Marienbad in German) in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, opened in 1905 and was extended to 18 holes in 1935.

The championship course was set up with par 72 over 6,709 yards.

Format

Each team consisted of six players, playing two rounds of opening stroke-play qualifying competition 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. 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 and the four teams placed 16–20 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games, to decide their final positions..

Teams

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

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Austria	Marcus Brier, Philipp Mensi-Klarbach, Rudi Sailer, Hans-Christian Winkler, Mattias Wittman, Nikolaus Zitny
Denmark	Morten Backhausen, Anders Hansen, Thomas Havemann, Jesper Kjaerbye, Søren Kjeldsen, Arild Townhill
England	Warren Bennett, Stuart Cage, Ian Garbutt, Lee S. James, Van Phillips, Iain Pyman, Mathew Stanford
France	Gregoire Brizay, Christian Cévaër, Janeirik Dahlström, Sébastien Delagrange, Fabrice Stolear, Jean-Yonn Dusson
Germany	Philip Drewes, Thomas Himmel, Marc Mazur, Hans-Günther Reiter, Jan-Erik Schapmann, Ulrich Schulte
Ireland	Neil Anderson, Raymond Burns, Jody Fanagan, Pádraig Harrington, Garth McGimpsey, Gary Murphy
Netherlands	Maarten van den Berg, Jeroen Germes, Niels Kraay, Maarten Lafeber, Rolf Muntz, Michael Vogel
Norway	André Blom, Reidar Brekke, Knut Ekjord, Morten Hagen, Øyvind Rojahn, Hans-Helge Strøm-Olsen
Scotland	Stephen Gallacher, Gary Hay, David Kirkpatrick, Allan Reid, Dean Robertson, Raymond Russell
Spain	Carlos Beautell, Francisco Cea, Álvaro Prat, Francisco Valera, Juan Andrés Vizcaya, José María Zamora
Sweden	Max Anglert, Freddie Jacobson, Mikael Lundberg, Henrik Nyström, Mårten Olander, Leif Westerberg
Wales	Richard Dinsdale, Bradley Dredge, Craig Evans, Richard Johnson, Michael Macara, Calvin O'Carroll

Other participating teams

Country
Belgium
Czech Republic
Finland
Greece
Iceland
Italy
Portugal
Switzerland

Winners

Team England and team Sweden was tied leaders of the qualifying competition, each with a 1-under-par score of 719, but England declared the winner, with the better total of the two non-counting scores..

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Henrik Nyström, Sweden, with an 8-under-par score of 136, two strokes ahead of nearest competitor. Nyström shot a new course record by two shots with a score of 65 in his first 18-hole-round.

Team Wales won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating, defending champions and eight time winners, team England in the final 4–3.

France, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Sweden 4–3 in the bronze match

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Flight C

	Round 1				Match for 17th place
	Greece	4
	Czech Republic	1
					Greece	3
					Iceland	2
	Iceland	3
	Switzerland	2
					Match for 19th place
					Switzerland	5
					Czech Republic	0

Final standings

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

Sources:^[1][2][3][4]

See also

• 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

External links

• European Golf Association: Full results