1961 European Amateur Team Championship

The 1961 European Amateur Team Championship took place 20 – 25 July on the Royal Golf Club de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium. It was the second men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The championship took place at the Royal Golf Club de Belgique, the Royal Golf Club of Belgium, established in 1906 and situated in Tervuren on the Ravenstein Manor farm, 10 kilometers west of Brussels city center. The club hosted the professional tournament Belgian Open 13 times between 1910 and 1978.

Format

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke-play, counting the four best scores out of up to six players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next three teams formed flight B and the next three teams formed flight C.
The standings 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, three foursome games and six single games were played.

Teams

Ten nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of six players. England took part for the first time.
Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
	Gordon Clark, George Evans, Peter Green, David Moffat, David Neech, Dixon Rawlinson, Keith Warren
	Guy d'Arcangues, Marius Bardana, Yves Caillol, Jean Pierre Cros, Patrick Cros, Jean-Pierre Hirigoyen, Henri de Lamaze, Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue
	Eduardo Bergamo, Nadi Berruti, Franco Bevione, Angelo Croce, E. Remigi, Alberto Schiaffino
	Johny Anderson, Gustaf Adolf Bielke, Ola Bergqvist, Gunnar Carlander, Lennart Leinborn, Magnus Lindberg, Bengt Möller
	Walter Brühne, Hans Lampert, Peter Möller, Jean Philipps, Helge Rademacher, Erik Sellschopp, Henning Sostmann

Other participating teams

Country

Winners

Defending champion team Sweden won the gold medal, earning 5 points in flight A. Team England, on their first appearance in the championship, took the silver medal on 4 points and France earned, just as in the inaugural edition two years before, the bronze on third place.
On the last day of the tournament, Sweden and England met in the deciding match, where a tie was enough to give Sweden the championship. In the game between Bengt Möller, Sweden, and Keith Warren, England, Möller made a 14-meter putt on the 18th green, to tie the hole, win his game by one hole and secure a tie of the team match and the championship for Sweden, despite another two ongoing games.
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue, France, with a score of 3-under-par 143. Gustaf Adolf Bielke, Sweden, shot a new amateur course record in the second round, with a score of 5-under-par 68 over 18 holes at the Belgique course.

Results

Qualification rounds
Team standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
1		292-298=590	+6
2		299-292=591	+7
3		301-297=598	+14
4		303-297=600	+16
5		306-299=605	+21
6		307-306=613	+29
7		311-307=618	+34
8		318-313=631	+47
9		323-313=636	+52
10		324-323=647	+63

Individual leader

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue		72-71=143	−3

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	16.5–10.5	5
	2	1	2	0	15.5–11.5	4
	3	1	1	1	13.5–13.5	3
	4	0	0	3	8.5–18.5	0

Flight B
Team standings

Country	Place
	5
	6
	7

Flight C
Team standings

Country	Place
	8
	9
	10

Final standings

Place	Country



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5
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7
8
9
10

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