1971 European Amateur Team Championship

The 1971 European Amateur Team Championship took place 24–27 June at Golf Club de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was the seventh men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

During three practice days before the tournament, the weather was warm and sunny, but on the first day of competition, play was interrupted several times due to heavy rain.

Format

All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to six players, counted the five best scores 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. Each of the four best placed teams were drawn to play the quarter-final against one of the teams in the flight placed in the next four positions. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single matches after the morning foursome matches.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B to play similar knock-out play and the three teams placed 15–17 formed Flight C to meet each other, to decide their final positions.

Teams

17 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of five players.

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Denmark	Nils Elsøe Jensen, Kjeld Friche, Klaus Hove, Henry Knudsen, John Nielsen, Hans Stenderup
England	Michael Bonallack, Rodney Foster, Warren Humphreys, Michael King, Geoff Marks, David Marsh
France	Didier Charmat, Jean-Charles Desbordes, Alexis Godillot, Roger Lagarde, Henri de Lamaze
Ireland	Roddy Carr, Tom Craddock, Brian Hoey, Raymond Kane, Brian Malone, Martin O'Brien
Italy	Stefano Cimatti, L. Fabrini, Franco Gigliarelli, Delio Lovato, Lorenzo Silva, Carlo Tadini
Norway	Erik Dønnestad, Olaf Eie, Yngve Eriksen, Johan Horn, Svend Knutsen, Asbjørn Ramnefjell
Scotland	Charlie Green, Matt Lygate, Scott Macdonald, George MacGregor, Alistair Thomson, Hugh Stuart
Spain	Álvaro Arana, Santiago Fernández, José Gancedo, José Luis Noguer, Roman Taya, Javier Viladomiu
Sweden	Olle Dahlgren, Hans Hedjerson, Claes Jöhncke, Johan Jöhncke, Gunnar Mueller, Jan Rube
Switzerland	Thomas Fortmann, Yves Hofstetter, Martin Kessler, Uli Lamm, Peter Müller, Jürg Pesko
Wales	David Adams, Simon Cox, Ted Davies, Hew Squirell, Jeff Toye, John Povall
West Germany	Freidrich Janssen, Hans-Günther Heinrigs, Peter Jochums, Jan Müller, Veit Pagel, Jürgen Weghmann

Other participating teams

Country
Austria
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Netherlands

Winners

Defending champions England won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Scotland 5–2 in the final. Team Norway, for the first time on the podium, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4–3 in the bronze match.

Individual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Martin Kessler, Switzerland, Klaus Nierlich, Austria and Hugh Stuart, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 1-over-par 73. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Flight C

Final standings

Place	Country
	England
	Scotland
	Norway
4	Spain
5	Ireland
6	Wales
7	France
8	Switzerland
9	Denmark
10	Sweden
11	West Germany
12	Netherlands
13	Italy
14	Austria
15	Belgium
16	Czechoslovakia
17	Finland

Sources:^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

See also

• Eisenhower Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.
• European Ladies' Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association.

References

External links

• European Golf Association: Full results