2010 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2010 European Amateur Team Championship took place 6–10 July at Österåker Golf Club in Åkersberga, Sweden. It was the 28th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

2010 European Amateur Team Championship

Tournament information
Dates	6–10 July 2010
Location	Stockholm, Sweden 59.4913°N 18.254°E / 59.4913; 18.254
Course(s)	Österåker Golf Club (Västerled Course)
Organized by	European Golf Association
Format	Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,017 yards (6,416 m)
Field	20 teams 120 players
Champion
England Laurie Canter, Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Hemstock, Tom Lewis, Chris Paisley, Eddie Pepperell
Qualification round: 723 (+3) Final match: 41⁄2–21⁄2
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Venue

Main article: Österåker Golf Club

The club was founded in 1988 and its Västerled course, opened the same year, was co-designed by Sven Tumba and Jan Sederholm and located 20 kilometres northeast of Stockholm, Sweden.^[1][2]

The championship course was set up with par 72.

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 were allowed to play 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.

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. Slovakia took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Belgium	Maxence de Craecker, Xavier Feyaerts, Christopher Mivis, Stefan Quy, Julien Richelle, Pierre-Alexis Rolland,
Denmark	Lucas Bjerregaard, Joachim B. Hansen, Andreas Hartø, Rasmus Lykke-Kjeldsen, Daniel Løkke, Morten Ørum Madsen
England	Laurie Canter, Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Hemstock, Tom Lewis, Chris Paisley, Eddie Pepperell
Finland	Toni Hakula, Tapio Pulkkanen, Mikael Salminen, Kalle Samooja, Henri Satama, Miro Veijalainen
France	Clément Berardo, Victor Dubuisson, Jérôme Lando-Casanova, Alexander Lévy, Johan Lopez Lazaro, Romain Wattel
Germany	Sean Einhaus, Maximilian Kieffer, Alexander Knappe, Benedict Staben, Alexis Szappanos, Philipp Westermann
Iceland	Axel Bóasson, Kristjan Einarsson, Hlynur Hjartarson, Alfred Brynjar Kristinsson, Ólafur Loftsson, Sigmundur Masson
Ireland	Clan Curley, Paul Cutler, Alan Dunbar, Paul Dunne, Dara Lernihan, Pat Murray
Italy	Nino Bertasio, Andrea Bolognesi, Mattia Miloro, Leonardo Motto, Andrea Pavan, Niccolò Quintarelli
Netherlands	Floris de Haas, Robin Kind, Wouter de Vries, Darius van Driel, Daan Huizing, Jeroen Krietemeijer
Norway	Elias Bertheussen, Knut Børsheim, Are Friestad, Espen Kofstad, Joakim Mikkelsen, Ole Ramsnes
Portugal	Pedro Figueiredo, Miguel Gaspar, Nuno Henriques, José Maria Jóia, Tiago Rodrigues, Manuel Violas
Scotland	James Byrne, Ross Kellett, Philip Mclean, Kris Nicol, Greg Paterson, Michael Stewart
Spain	Emilio Cuartero, Nacho Elvira, Antonio Hortal, Carlos Pigem, Gerhard Piris, Juan Francisco Sarasti
Sweden	Nils Florén, Jesper Kennegård, David Lingmerth, Henrik Norlander, Pontus Widegren, Robin Wingårdh
Wales	Rhys Enoch, Oliver Farr, James Frazer, Alastair Jones, Rhys Pugh, Ben Westgate

Other participating teams

Country
Austria
Poland
Slovakia
Switzerland

Winners

Tied leaders of the opening 36-hole competition were team Denmark and team Italy, each with a 1-over-par score of 721. Denmark earned first place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host nation Sweden, tied 14th after the first round, was close to miss the quarter-finals, but finally, by a single stroke, took the last place among the top eight, ahead of three teams. Sweden eventually came close to winning the championship. Defending champions Scotland were among the teams which finished one stroke from qualifying for the quarter-finals.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Nino Bertasio, Italy, with a 10-under-par score of 134, four strokes ahead of Morten Ørum Madsen, Denmark.

Team England won the gold medal, earning their tenth title, beating team Sweden in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.

Team Italy, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 5–2 in the bronze match.

Results

Qualification round

Team standings Place Country Score To par T1  Denmark * 355-366=721 +1  Italy 368-353=721 3  England 354-369=723 +3 4  Spain 372-355=727 +7 5  Wales 362-367=729 +9 6  Finland 359-372=731 +11 7  Germany 367-368=735 +15 8  Sweden 374-366=740 +20 T9  France * 369-372=741 +21  Scotland * 359-382=741  Portugal 373-368=741 12  Norway 368-376=741 +24 13  Netherlands 369-379=748 +28 14  Belgium 370-381=751 +31 T15  Ireland * 374-383=757 +37  Switzerland 381-376=757 17  Austria 379-386=765 +45 18  Iceland 383-387=770 +50 19  Slovakia 395-404=799 +79 20  Poland 391-421 =812 +92 * 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 Nino Bertasio  Italy 68-66=134 −10 2 Morten Ørum Madsen  Denmark 69-69=138 −6 T3 James Byrne  Scotland 70-69=139 −5 Mikael Salminen  Finland 71-68=139 T5 Laurie Canter  England 70-72=142 −2 James Frazer  Wales 70-72=142 Espen Kofstad  Norway 71-71=142 Andrea Pavan  Italy 73-69=142 Carlos Pigem  Spain 71-71=142 T9 Oliver Farr  Wales 73-70=143 −1 Rasmus Lykke-Kjeldsen  Denmark 69-74=143 Chris Paisley  England 68-75=143 Kalle Samooja  Finland 67-76=143 Alexis Szappanos  Germany 73-70=143 Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Bracket   Quarter finals Semi finals Final                                Italy 4        Germany 3    England 5        Italy 2    England 5        Finland 2    England 4.5        Sweden 2.5    Spain 6        Wales 1    Sweden 5.5        Spain 1.5 Bronze match    Sweden 4.5        Denmark 2.5    Italy 5      Spain 2     Elimination matches Match for 5th place                        Finland 3.5        Germany 1.5    Denmark 3        Finland 2    Denmark 3.5      Wales 1.5   Match for 7th place            Germany 4      Wales 1

Final games  England  Sweden 4.5 2.5 E. Pepperell / B. Hemstock P. Widegren / H. Norlander 3 & 2 T. Fleetwood / T. Lewis D. Lingmerth / N. Florén 2 & 1 Tommy Fleetwood 2 & 1 Jespeer Kennegård Tom Lewis 1 hole Nils Florén Laurie Canter 6 & 4 Pontus Widegren Eddie Pepperell 4 & 3 David Lingmerth Chris Paisley AS * Henrik Norlander AS * * Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Match for 9th place                                Scotland 3.5        Ireland 1.5    Scotland 3        Portugal 2    Portugal 3.5        Belgium 1.5    France 4        Scotland 1    Netherlands 3.5        Norway 1.5    France 4        Netherlands 1 Match for 11th place    France 4        Switzerland 1    Netherlands 4      Portugal 1

Elimination matches Match for 13th place                        Ireland 3.5        Belgium 1.5    Norway 3.5        Ireland 1.5    Norway 4      Switzerland 1   Match for 15th place            Belgium 4      Switzerland 1

Flight C

First round  Iceland  Slovakia 5 0  Austria  Poland 5 0

Second round  Iceland  Poland 5 0  Slovakia  Austria 3 2

Third round  Poland  Slovakia 4 1  Austria  Iceland 3 2

Final standings

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

Sources:^[3][4]

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

1. "Spela, Bana, Västerled, En av Sveriges tuffaste mästerskapsbanor" [Play, Course, Västerled, One of Sweden's toughest championship courses] (in Swedish). Österåker Golf Club. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
2. Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den Stora Sporten' [Golf - the Great Sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 156. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
3. "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2010 - Österåker GC, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
4. Klarström, Karin (9 July 2010). "Sverige i final i lag-EM" [Sweden in the final at the European Amateur Team Championship] (in Swedish). Svensk Golf svenskgolf.se. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

External links

• European Golf Association: Full results