1983 European Amateur Team Championship
The 1983 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–26 June at Golf de Chantilly, in Chantilly, France. It was the 13th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
Venue
The hosting club was founded in 1909. The Vineuil Course, situated in Chantilly, in the forest of the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France, 50 kilometres north of the center of Paris, close to the Château de Chantilly and Chantilly Racecourse, was originally designed by John Henry Taylor and later redesigned by Tom Simpson and Donald Steel. It had previously hosted eight editions of the Open de France.For the 1983 European Amateur Team Championship, the course was set up with par 71 over 7,256 yards.
Format
Each team consisted of five or six players, playing two rounds of an opening stroke-play qualifying competition 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. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.
The seven teams placed 9–15 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–19 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.
Teams
19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of five or six players.Players in the teams
| Country | Players | |||||||||||||||||
| Christian Czerny, Johann Lamberg, Klaus Nierlich, O. Paul, Fritz Porstendorfer, E. Posamentyr | ||||||||||||||||||
| Patrick Bonnelance, Olivier Buysse, Alain Eaton, Michel Eaton, Thierry Goosens, Roger Rabaey | ||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Knudsen, Leif Nyholm, Jacob Rasmussen, Søren Rolner, Anders Sørensen, Steen Tinning | ||||||||||||||||||
| Peter Hedges, Stephen Keppler, Peter McEvoy, Andrew Oldcorn, Jonathan Plaxton, Martin Thompson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Patrick Hallama, Kari Kuivasaari, Markku Louhio, Juha Selin, Timo Sipponen, Jouni Vilmunen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sven Boinet, Alexis Godillot, Marc Pendariès, Eric Pery, Philippe Ploujoux, Jean-Louis Schneider | ||||||||||||||||||
| George Aronis, V. Aronis, S. Oikonomou, George Vafiadis, Stefan Vafiadis, Chris Valasakis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hannes Eyvindsson, G. Kristinsson, Ragnar Olafsson, Sigurdur Petursson, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Björgvin Thorsteinsson | ||||||||||||||||||
 Ireland|4provITALUXNLDNORSCOESPSWECHEWALFRGWinnersTeam Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 8 over par 718.Individual leader was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 8-under-par 134, five strokes ahead of Tore Christian Sviland, Norway. In his second round, McEvoy scored 8 birdies and 10 pars for an 8-under-par 63 score on the Chantilly course. Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Spain in the final 5–2. Team Italy earned the bronze on third place, after beating Scotland 4–3 in the bronze match. ResultsQualification roundTeam standings
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