# 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy

The 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 23–26 August at Sporting Club Berlin, on its Nick Faldo Course, in Bad Saarow, outside Berlin, Germany.
It was the 19th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy.
The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event. There were a record 40 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.
The French team won the Trophy for their second title, their first since France won the inaugural event on home soil in 1964. They beat team South Korea by seven strokes. South Korea took the silver, while the combined team of Great Britain and Ireland took the bronze on third place another four strokes back. The defending United States team finished 17th, their worst finish ever in the championship, having won the trophy 13 times.
The individual title went to Suzann Pettersen, Norway, whose score of 3-under-par, 285, was four strokes ahead of the nearest competitors.

## Teams

40 teams entered the event and completed the competition. Each team had three players, except Iceland with two players.
| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Maria Sol Arenas, Maria Olivero, Marilu White |
| Australia | Helen Beatty, Rebecca Stevenson, Lindsey Wright |
| Austria | Lilian Mensi-Klarbach, Tina Schneeberger, Rosanna Zernatto |
| Belgium | Naima Ghilain, Veronique Verhaegen, Celestine De Vos |
| Bolivia | Ella Maria Asbun, Veronica Maldonado, Ximena Maldonado |
| Brazil | Maria Candida Hannemann, Maria Priscila Iida, Cristina Schmitt Baldi |
| Canada | Laura Henderson, Mary Ann Lapointe, Alena Sharp |
| Czech Republic | Marta Balková, Petra Kvidova, Jana Peterková |
| Chile | Maria Jose Hurtado Fabres, Gloria Soto Ferrada, Nicole Perrot Westphal |
| Chinese Taipei | Chin-huei Hung, Candie Kung, Nien-tzu Yu |
| Colombia | Cristina Baena, Marcela Gonzalez, Catalina Navarro |
| Croatia | Snjezana Crnoglavac, Sanja Serfezi Kelemen, Daria Zubrinic |
| Denmark | Amanda Moltke-Leth, Rikke Rasmussen, Carina Vagner |
| Ecuador | Kitty Hwang Choi, Maria Jose Ferro, Katherine Pareja |
| Finland | Pia Koivuranta, Hanna-Leena Salonen, Ursula Tuutti |
| France | Maitena Alsuguren, Virginie Auffret, Karine Icher |
| Germany | Martina Eberl, Miriam Nagl, Nicole Stillig |
| Great Britain & Ireland | Alison Coffey, Rebecca Hudson, Suzanne O'Brien |
| Greece | Irene Krambs, Marina Simeonoglou, Chryssi Vafiadis |
| Guatemala | Beatriz de Arenas, Maria Cristina Arenas, Florencia de Rolz |
| Iceland | Olof M. Jonsdóttir, Ragnhildur Sigurdardóttir |
| Indonesia | Ani Iman, Sitto Retno Purwandari, Titi Puryanti |
| Italy | Federica Piovano, Barbara Vianello, Veronica Zorzi |
| Japan | Keiko Inoue, Miho Koga, Akemi Soto |
| Malaysia | Lim Ai Lian, Valerie Tan Kim Lian, Koe Lai Yin |
| Mexico | Tanya Dergal, Lorena Ochoa, Violeta Retamoza |
| Netherlands | Joan van de Kraats, Nienke Nijenhuis, Dewi Claire Schreefel |
| New Zealand | Tina Howard, Brenda Ormsby, Debbie Smith |
| Norway | Line Berg, Monica Gundersund, Suzann Pettersen |
| Paraguay | Maria Rocio Delmas, Julieta Granada, Celeste Troche |
| Philippines | Maria Ruby Chico, Ria Denise Quiazon, Carmelete Villaroman |
| Portugal | Carolina Catanho, Carla Cruz, Rita Jordao |
| Puerto Rico | Karen Calvesbert, Sasha Medina, Carmen Ana Rivera |
| Russia | Svetlana Afanasieva, Maria Kostina, Ouliana Rotmistrova |
| Slovakia | Barbora Kachliková, Zuzana Mamasová, Andrea Ranusková |
| South Africa | Sanet Marais, Vanessa Smith, Annerie Wessels |
| South Korea | Kim Joo-mi, Shin Hyun-joo, Ahn Shi-hyun |
| Spain | Carmen Alonso, Tania Elósegui, Marta Prieto |
| Sweden | Susanna Berglund, Maria Bodén, Jessica Lindbergh |
| Switzerland | Nora Angerhn, Niloufar Azam, Sheila Lee |
| United States | Hilary Homeyer, Stephanie Keever, Laura Myerscough |

## Results

| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | France | 146-145-142-147=580 | +4 |
| 2 | South Korea | 144-148-147-148=587 | +11 |
| 3 | Great Britain & Ireland | 148-147-144-152=591 | +15 |
| 4 | Sweden | 145-148-150-149=592 | +16 |
| T5 | Denmark | 142-154-147-150=593 | +17 |
| T5 | Spain | 148-151-152-142=593 | +17 |
| 7 | Japan | 146-147-150-151=594 | +18 |
| T8 | Italy | 146-148-150-151=595 | +19 |
| T8 | Netherlands | 150-145-149-151=595 | +19 |
| 10 | Australia | 148-157-149-142=596 | +20 |
| T11 | Chinese Taipei | 150-145-154-151=600 | +24 |
| T11 | Germany | 148-150-152-150=600 | +24 |
| T11 | Norway | 147-150-150-153=600 | +24 |
| 14 | Mexico | 148-151-152-154=605 | +29 |
| T15 | Belgium | 148-155-148-155=606 | +30 |
| T15 | Brazil | 147-145-152-162=606 | +30 |
| 17 | United States | 152-158-149-149=608 | +32 |
| 18 | Canada | 149-156-153-153=611 | +35 |
| 19 | Chile | 155-155-151-152=613 | +37 |
| T20 | New Zealand | 146-152-161-156=615 | +39 |
| T20 | South Africa | 153-152-153-157=615 | +39 |
| 22 | Paraguay | 155-154-152-156=617 | +41 |
| T23 | Argentina | 154-149-159-156=618 | +42 |
| T23 | Switzerland | 151-156-159-152=618 | +42 |
| 25 | Puerto Rico | 150-157-156-156=619 | +43 |
| T26 | Austria | 157-157-155-153=622 | +46 |
| T26 | Finland | 157-151-159-155=622 | +46 |
| 28 | Czech Republic | 152-155-153-163=623 | +47 |
| T29 | Malaysia | 157-155-159-160=631 | +55 |
| T29 | Russia | 156-164-159-152=631 | +55 |
| 31 | Philippines | 156-155-165-157=633 | +57 |
| 32 | Iceland | 157-154-164-163=638 | +62 |
| 33 | Indonesia | 161-163-165-155=644 | +68 |
| 34 | Ecuador | 165-152-170-164=651 | +75 |
| 35 | Portugal | 159-169-163-164=655 | +79 |
| 36 | Guatemala | 170-157-166-163=656 | +80 |
| 37 | Bolivia | 166-164-171-174=675 | +89 |
| 38 | Greece | 180-171-168-164=683 | +97 |
| 39 | Slovakia | 182-185-183-178=728 | +152 |
| 40 | Croatia | 183-185-176-187=731 | +155 |
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## Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Suzann Pettersen | Norway | 69-72-71-73=285 | −3 |
| T2 | Maitena Alsuguren | France | 74-72-67-76=289 | +1 |
| T2 | Kim Joo-mi | South Korea | 73-72-72-72=289 | +1 |
| 4 | Karine Icher | France | 72-74-75-71=292 | +4 |
| 5 | Rebecca Hudson | Great Britain & Ireland | 73-75-71-74=293 | +5 |
| 6 | Candie Kung | Chinese Taipei | 72-71-74-77=294 | +6 |
| 7 | Veronica Zorzi | Italy | 73-72-74-76=295 | +7 |