1999 European Amateur Team Championship
The 1999 European Amateur Team Championship took place 29 June – 3 July at Golf Club Monticello in Cassina Rizzardi, 5 kilometres south-west of the city center of Como, Lombardy region, Italy. It was the 21st men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
Format
Each team consisted of 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 elimination matches and the bronze match were decided with one foursome game and four single games.
The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B and the six teams placed 17–22 formed flight C, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
Teams
22 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.Players in the teams
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| Clemens Conrad Prader, Reinhard Krendl, Thomas Ortner, Ulrich Paulsen, Gerard Wagner, Martin Wiegele | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stefan Boschmans, Frederik Dejaeghere, Florian Dohmen, Jerome Theunis, Francois Nicolas, Frederic de Vooght | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zlatan Juras, Dragutin Kasapovic, Nicola Kovacevic, Miro Raic, Branko Stoter, Ivo Vokadin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miroslav Holub,Radek Horyna, Jakub Kucera, Lukas Nosek, Martin Peterka, Tomas Polisensky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Havemann, Peter Jespersen, Allan Madsen, Søren Muller, Lars Storm, Morten Vildhøj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luke Donald, Simon Dyson, Colin Edwards, Philip Rowe, Graeme Storm, Gary Wolstenholme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Valdek Apivala, Jaan Martinson, Marko Palm, Raimond Palm, Mait Schmidt, Enrico Villo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tobias Dahlberg, Mikko Ilonen, Mikko Korhonen, Panu Kylliäinen, Mikael Mustonen, Henri Salonen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sebastian Branger, Olivier David, Grégory Havret, Nicolas Marin, Christophe Ravetto, Charles-Henry Quelin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kariem Baraka, J.M. Pelz, Benjamin Schlichting, Tino Schuster, Marcel Siem, Michael Thannhäuser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GreeceISLWinnersTeam France won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 19-under-par score of 701, 10 strokes ahead of eight-time-winners England on 2nd place. Neither four-times-champions Scotland or two-times-champions Sweden did make it to the quarter-finals, finishing tied ninth.There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Sebastian Branger, France, with an 8-under-par score of 136, one stroke ahead of Lorne Kelly, Scotland. Host nation Italy won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Germany in the final 4–3. Team France earned the bronze on third place, after beating England 3–2 in the bronze match. ResultsQualification roundTeam standings
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