1959 European Ladies' Team Championship

The 1959 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 15–20 September on the Golf und Land Club Köln outside Cologne, Germany. It was the first ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting club was founded in 1906 and the championship 18-hole course, situated in Bergisch Gladbach, 10 kilometers east of the city center of Cologne, opened in 1955. The course set up of par 74 had four par-3-holes, eight par-4-holes and six par-5-holes.
The championship course was set up with par 74.

Course layout

The shown length on each hole was from the club tee. The women's championship tee was approximately 10 percent shorter and totally 5,475 meters.

Format

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next two teams formed flight B.
The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, two foursome games and four single games were played.

Teams

Six nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.
Players in some of the teams

Country	Players
	Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur *, Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot
	Rosanna Bergamo, Wanda Bohus Rosa, Paula Cobianchi, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione, Pinto
	Gertrud Ahlberg, Marianne Bergengren, Ann-Marie Brynolf, Britt Matsson, Margareta Warberg
	Ilse Groos, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger, Inez Stille

* Note: Playing captain Lally de Saint-Sauveur did not play the qualification round and played one single game and two foursome games in flight A.
'''Other participating teams'''

Winners

Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, France, with a score of 5-under-par 143.
Team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A.

Results

Qualification rounds
Team standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
1		229-218=447	+3
2		243-232=475	+31
3		246-235=481	+37
4		244-241=485	+41
5		247-242=489	+45
6		259-241=500	+56

Individual leader

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Odile Garaialde Semelaigne		70-73=143	−5

Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score.
Flight A
Team matches
Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
	1	2	1	0	14.5–3.5	6
	2	2	0	1	12–6	4
	3	2	0	1	7.5–10.5	2
	4	0	1	2	2–16	0

Flight B
Team match
Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
	T5	0	1	0	3–3	1
	T5	0	1	0	3–3	1

Final standings

Place	Country



4
T5
T5

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