2018 European Golf Team Championships – Men's team

The 2018 European Golf Team Championships men's team event was an event forming part of the 2018 European Golf Team Championships tournament being played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. 16 two-player teams took part in the competition.^[1]

Men's Team Event at the 2018 European Golf Team Championships
Venue	Gleneagles, Scotland
Dates	11 August 2018
Competitors	32 from 11 (16 teams) nations
Medalists
Spain 1 Pedro Oriol Scott Fernández    Spain   Iceland Birgir Hafþórsson Axel Bóasson    Iceland   Italy 2 Francesco Laporta Alessandro Tadini    Italy
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2018 European Golf Team Championships

Tournament information
Dates	8–12 August 2018
Location	Auchterarder, Scotland 56°17′09″N 3°44′51″W
Course(s)	PGA Centenary Course, Gleneagles
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Match play
Statistics
Par	72
Field	32 players from 11 nations (16 two-player teams)
Prize fund	€500,000
Location map
Gleneagles Location in Scotland
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The event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which is to take place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018. Spain 1 took the title from the Iceland team. The Italy 2 team won bronze.

Format

The European Golf Team Championships are taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8−12 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.

The men's team championships featured a round-robin group fourball format, on 8–10 August, with the winners of each of the four groups progressing to the semi-finals where foursomes will determine the winners, on 12 August. In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one point for a halved match, and no points for a loss. Ties between two teams in the standings were determined by their head-to-head result and if teams were still tied for first place then a sudden-death playoff would occur.^[2]

Qualification

Qualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables based on men's Official World Golf Ranking points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.

Competitors

Seed	Country	Players (rank)
1	Great Britain 1	Callum Shinkwin (230) & Lee Slattery (233)
2	Italy 1	Lorenzo Gagli (275) & Guido Migliozzi (593)
3	Spain 1	Pedro Oriol (355) & Scott Fernández (476)
4	Great Britain 2	Rhys Enoch (396) & Charlie Ford (509)
5	Great Britain 3	Connor Syme (322) & Liam Johnston (381)
6	Portugal	José-Filipe Lima (341) & Ricardo Santos (738)
7	Norway	Jarand Ekeland Arnøy (668) & Kristian Krogh Johannessen (493)
8	Spain 2	Santiago Tarrío (391) & David Borda (649)
9	Sweden 1	Per Längfors (468) & Johan Edfors (759)
10	Iceland	Birgir Hafþórsson (586) & Axel Bóasson (663)
11	Poland	Adrian Meronk (588) & Mateusz Gradecki (947)
12	Italy 2	Francesco Laporta (566) & Alessandro Tadini (858)
13	Ireland	Michael Hoey (536) & Neil O'Briain (983)
14	Denmark	Martin Ovesen (828) & Niklas Nørgaard (1040)
15	Belgium	Christopher Mivis (537) & Lars Buijs (1782)
16	Sweden 2	Daniel Jennevret (843) & Oscar Florén (1749)

Results

Pool play

Teams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.

• Round 1 – 8 August
• Round 2 – 9 August
• Round 3 – 10 August

Group A Round Winner Score Loser 1 Great Britain 1 vs Spain 2 - Halved Sweden 2 1 up Sweden 1 2 Great Britain 1 6 & 5 Sweden 1 Spain 2 1 up Sweden 2 3 Sweden 2 3 & 2 Great Britain 1 Spain 2 3 & 2 Sweden 1 Seed Player W L H Points Finish 8  Spain 2 2 0 1 5 1 16  Sweden 2 2 1 0 4 2 1  Great Britain 1 1 1 1 3 3 9  Sweden 1 0 3 0 0 4

Group B Round Winner Score Loser 1 Great Britain 3 4 & 3 Great Britain 2 Italy 2 2 & 1 Ireland 2 Italy 2 2 & 1 Great Britain 2 Great Britain 3 2 & 1 Ireland 3 Ireland 4 & 3 Great Britain 2 Italy 2 1 up Great Britain 3 Seed Player W L H Points Finish 12  Italy 2 3 0 0 6 1 5  Great Britain 3 2 1 0 4 2 13  Ireland 1 2 0 2 3 4  Great Britain 2 0 3 0 0 4

Group C Round Winner Score Loser 1 Spain 1 2 & 1 Portugal Poland 1 up Denmark 2 Spain 1 2 & 1 Poland Portugal 2 & 1 Denmark 3 Denmark 4 & 3 Spain 1 Portugal 5 & 3 Poland Seed Player W L H Points Finish 3  Spain 1 2 1 0 4 1 6  Portugal 2 1 0 4 2 11  Poland 1 2 0 2 3 14  Denmark 1 2 0 2 4

Group D Round Winner Score Loser 1 Norway 4 & 3 Italy 1 Iceland 6 & 5 Belgium 2 Iceland 2 & 1 Italy 1 Norway 1 up Belgium 3 Italy 1 4 & 3 Belgium Iceland 2 up Norway Seed Player W L H Points Finish 10  Iceland 3 0 0 6 1 7  Norway 2 0 0 4 2 2  Italy 1 1 2 0 2 3 15  Belgium 0 3 0 0 4

Medal bracket

Sunday, 12 August

	Semifinals					Gold medal match
	8	Spain 2
	10	Iceland	2 & 1
						10	Iceland
						3	Spain 1	2 up
	12	Italy 2
	3	Spain 1	2 up			Bronze medal match
						8	Spain 2
						12	Italy 2	5 & 3

References

1. "Teams unveiled for historic European Golf Team Championships". PGA European Tour. 16 July 2018.
2. "Golf – Daily Schedule". European Championships. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.