1993 European Amateur Team Championship


The 1993 European Amateur Team Championship took place 30 June4 July at Golf Club Mariánské Lázně, later renamed Royal Golf Club Mariánské Lázně, 6 kilometres from the Mariánské Lázně town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It was the 18th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting Golf Club Mariánské Lázně was later renamed Royal Golf Club Mariánské Lázně. Its first 9-hole course, located 6 kilometres from the Mariánské Lázně town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, opened in 1905 and was extended to 18 holes in 1935.
The championship course was set up with par 72 over 6,709 yards.

Format

Each team consisted of six players, playing two rounds of 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 eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the four teams placed 16–20 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games, to decide their final positions..

Teams

20 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the teams
CountryPlayers
Marcus Brier, Philipp Mensi-Klarbach, Rudi Sailer, Hans-Christian Winkler, Mattias Wittman, Nikolaus Zitny
Christophe Bosmans, Jean-Christophe Gillard, Filip Goovaerts, Arnaud Langenaeken, Nicolas Vanhootegem, Didier de Vooght
Roman Chudoba, Anton Kunsta, Jan Kunsta, Stephan Slezak, Ondrej Trupl, Jan Zitterbart
Morten Backhausen, Anders Hansen, Thomas Havemann, Jesper Kjaerbye, Søren Kjeldsen, Arild Townhill
Warren Bennett, Stuart Cage, Ian Garbutt, Lee S. James, Van Phillips, Iain Pyman, Mathew Stanford
Gregoire Brizay, Christian Cévaër, Janeirik Dahlström, Sébastien Delagrange, Fabrice Stolear, Jean-Yonn Dusson
Juha Kiviharjo, Jari Koljanen, Mikko Manerus, Petri Pulkkinen, Mikko Rantanen, Kalle Väinölä
Philip Drewes, Thomas Himmel, Marc Mazur, Hans-Günther Reiter, Jan-Erik Schapmann, Ulrich Schulte
George Nikitaidis, Pelop Panagopoulos, Eugene Papadopoulos, Tyron Pappas, Steve Partenis, Stathis Toumazanis
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Winners

Team England and team Sweden was tied leaders of the qualifying competition, each with a 1-under-par score of 719, but England declared the winner, with the better total of the two non-counting scores..
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Henrik Nyström, Sweden, with an 8-under-par score of 136, two strokes ahead of nearest competitor. Nyström shot a new course record by two shots with a score of 65 in his first 18-hole-round.
Team Wales won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating, defending champions and eight time winners, team England in the final 4–3.
France, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Sweden 4–3 in the bronze match

Results

Qualification round
Team standings
PlaceCountryScoreTo par
T1 *360-359=719−1
T1358-361=719−1
3368-363=731+11
4360-374=734+14
5365-370=735+15
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