1961 European Ladies' Team Championship

The 1961 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 22–27 September on the Circolo Golf Villa D'Este outside Como, Italy. It was the second ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The course, situated 4 kilometres south-east of Como, Lombardy region, the seventh oldest golf course in Italy, was designed by Peter Gannon and opened in 1926.
The championship course was set up with par 69.

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 four 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

Eight nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players. Spain and Portugal took part for the first time.
Players in some of the teams

Country	Players
	Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan-Giraud, M. Mahé, Lally de Saint-Sauveur, Brigitte Varangot
	L. de Boer, M. Henderson, Annie van Lanslot, Anneke van Riemsdijk
	Barbara de Brito e Cunha, Cardie, Cordier, Vera Costa Lennox, Salette de Sousa e Melo
	Gertrud Ahlberg, Ann-Marie Brynolf, Birgit Forsman, Britt Matsson, Ann-Katrin Svensson
	Marietta Gütermann, Vera Möller, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger

'''Other participating teams'''

Winners

Defending champions team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A. Host nation Italy earned second place, just as they did at the previous championship two years earlier.
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Mercedes Etchart de Ártiach, Spain, with a score of 4-over-par 142.

Results

Qualification rounds
Team standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
1		226-215=441	+27
2		229-226=455	+41
T3	*	229-233=462	+48
T3		235-227=462	+48
5		233-236=469	+55
6		237-238=475	+61
7		242-260=502	+88
8		256-256=509	+95

* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.
Individual leader

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Mercedes Etchart de Ártiach		71-71=142	+4

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	3	0	0	14–4	6
	2	2	0	1	9–9	4
	3	1	0	1	7.5–10.5	2
	4	0	1	2	5.5–12.5	0

Flight B
Team matches

Note: Sweden was given walkover in three games against the Netherlands and in two games against then West Germany, due to food poisoning.

Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
	5	3	0	1	14.5–3.5	6
	6	2	0	1	9.5–8.5	4
	7	1		1	7.5–10.5	2
	8	0	0	0	4.5–13.5	0

Final standings

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