1983 European Amateur Team Championship

The 1983 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–26 June at Golf de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France. It was the 13th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting club was founded in 1909. The Vineuil Course, situated in Chantilly, in the forest of the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the center of Paris, close to the Château de Chantilly and Chantilly Racecourse, was originally designed by John Henry Taylor and later redesigned by Tom Simpson and Donald Steel. It had previously hosted eight editions of the Open de France.

For the 1983 European Amateur Team Championship, the course was set up with par 71 over 7,108 yards.

Format

Each team consisted of five or 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.

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 seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–19 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Denmark	Henry Knudsen, Leif Nyholm, Jacob Rasmussen, Søren Rolner, Anders Sørensen, Steen Tinning
England	Peter Hedges, Stephen Keppler, Peter McEvoy, Andrew Oldcorn, Jonathan Plaxton, Martin Thompson
France	Sven Boinet, Alexis Godillot, Marc Pendariès, Eric Pery, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-Louis Schneider
Ireland	John Carr, Tom Cleary, Garth McGimpsey, Mick Morris, Arthur Pierse, Philip Walton
Italy	Mauro Bianco, Alberto Binaghi, Emanuele Bolognesi, Andrea Canessa, Silvio Grappasonni, Sergio Prati
Norway	Eric Bjerkholt, Tom Fredriksen, Gard Midtvåge, Ragnvald Risan, Tore Christian Sviland, Lars-Erik Underthun
Scotland	Frank Coutts, Colin Dalgleish, George MacGregor, Lindsay Mann, Stephen McAllister, J.A. Thomson
Spain	Ignacio Gervás, Julián García-Mayoral, José María Olazábal, Alejo Ollé, Borja Queipo de Llano, Román Taya
Sweden	Thomas Andersson, Antero Baburin, Magnus Hennberg, Per Jönsson, Anders Sandgren, Björn Svedin
Wales	R.D. Broad, G. Davies, John Roger Jones, David McLean, Philip Parkin, D.K. Wood
West Germany	Thomas Dekorsy, Hans-Günter Reiter, Frank Schlig, Ulrich Schulte, Christoph Städler, Ralf Thielemann

Other participating teams

Country
Austria
Belgium
Finland
Greece
Iceland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland

Winners

Team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 8 over par 718.

Individual leader was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 8-under-par 134, five strokes ahead of Tore Christian Sviland, Norway. In his second round, McEvoy scored 8 birdies and 10 pars for an 8-under-par 63 score on the Chantilly course.

Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Spain in the final 5–2. Team Italy earned the bronze on third place, after beating Scotland 4–3 in the bronze match.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

	Round 1				Round 2				Match for 9th place
	Sweden	6
	Greece	1
					Sweden	6
					Wales	1
	Wales	5
	Finland	2
									Sweden	5
									Switzerland	2
	Switzerland	4
	Belgium	3
					Switzerland	4
					West Germany	3			Match for 11th place
									West Germany	4.5
									Wales	2.5

	Round 1				Match for 13th place
					Finland	4.5
					Belgium	2.5

Flight C

	Round 1				Match for 16th place
	Austria	5
	Iceland	2
					Austria	5
					Netherlands	2
	Netherlands	4.5
	Luxembourg	2.5
					Match for 18th place
					Iceland	5
					Luxembourg	2

Final standings

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

Sources:^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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