• Source: 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

Other participating teams




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

Sources:




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

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