# 2011 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2011 European Amateur Team Championship took place 5–9 July at Oceânico Golf in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal on its Victoria Course. It was the 29th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

## Venue

The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004. In 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.

## Format

Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play 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 was 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. Teams knocked out after the quarter finals were allowed to play one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. 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, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
The four teams placed 17–20 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

## Teams

20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Russia took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the teams
| Country | Players |
| Austria | Hamza Amin, Philipp Fendt, Tono Kromer, Lukas Nemecz, Manuel Trappel, Christoph Weninger |
| Belgium | Xavier Feyaerts, Thomas Pieters, Cedric Van Wassenhove, Julien Richelle, Kevin Hesbois, Nick Ver Elst |
| Denmark | Lucas Bjerregaard, Victor Henum, Mads Søgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Thomas Sørensen, Sebastian Cappelen |
| England | Stiggy Hodgson, Jack Senior, Andy Sullivan, Darren Wright, Dave Coupland, Steven Brown |
| Finland | Tapio Pulkkanen, Tuomas Salminen, Toni Hakula, Niclas Hellberg, Miro Veijalainen, Roope Kangas |
| France | Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun, Édouard España, Sébastien Gros, Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal |
| Germany | Benedict Staben, Moritz Lampert, Sebastien Kannler, Stephan Jäger, Marcel Schneider, Philipp Westermann |
| Iceland | Axel Bóasson, Arnar Hakonarson, Gudjonn Hilmarsson, Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Alfred Brynjar Kristinsson, Ólafur Loftsson |
| Ireland | Paul Cutler, Kevin Phelan, Alan Dunbar, Eoin Arthurs, Pat Murray, Paul Dunne |
| Italy | Filippo Berganaschi, Francesco Laporta, Mattia Miloro, Leonardo Motto, Niccolò Quintarelli, Filippo Zuchetti |
| Netherlands | Dylan Boshart, Bernard Geelkerken, Daan Huizing, Robin Kind, Frank Van Hoof, Willem Vork |
| Norway | Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen, Vilhelm Bogstrand, Andres Engell, Joakim Mikkelsen, Thomas Guste Pedersen, Ole Ramsnes |
| Portugal | Ricardo Gouveia, Pedro Figueiredo, Gonçalo Pinto, José Maria Jóia Miguel Gaspar, Tiago Rodrigues |
| Russia | Vasily Belov, Vladimir Osipov Pavel Goryainov, Mikhail Morozov, Nikita Ponomarev, Evgeny Volkov |
| Scotland | James Byrne, Ross Kellett, David Law, Kris Nicol, Greg Paterson, Michael Stewart |
| Slovakia | Maros Karnis, Stefan Palenik, Martin Tavoda, Peter Valasek, Samo Valuch, Juraj Zvarik |
| Spain | Scott Fernandez, Adrian Otaegui, Nacho Elvira, Antonio Hortal, Juan Francisco Sarasti, Oliver Mena |
| Sweden | Pontus Widegren, Sebastian Söderberg, Pontus Gad, Nils Florén, Robert S. Karlsson, Niclas Carlsson |
| Switzerland | Marc Dobias, Benjamim Rusch, Arthur Gabella, Edouard Amacher, Victor Doka, Marco Iten |
| Wales | Rhys Enoch, Oliver Farr, James Frazer, Rhys Pugh, Ben Westgate, Joe Vickery |

## Winners

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Spain, with a 24-under-par score of 696. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing ninth in the qualifying round.
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Scott Fernandez, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 135, two strokes ahead of Adrián Otaegui, Spain and Thomas Pieters, Belgium.
Team France won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Switzerland in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2.
Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Germany 4–3 in the bronze match.

## Results

Qualification round
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Spain | 338-358=696 | −24 |
| 2 | Germany | 343-357=700 | −20 |
| 3 | France | 340-362=702 | −18 |
| T4 | Finland * | 353-355=708 | −12 |
| T4 | Switzerland * | 359-349=708 | −12 |
| T4 | Ireland * | 348-360=708 | −12 |
| T4 | Scotland | 359-349=708 | −12 |
| 8 | Sweden | 352-361=713 | −7 |
| 9 | England | 353-363=716 | −4 |
| 10 | Iceland | 356-362=718 | −2 |
| T11 | Austria * | 346-373=719 | −1 |
| T11 | Netherlands | 359-360=719 | −1 |
| 13 | Denmark | 359-361=720 | E |
| 14 | Italy | 360-362=722 | +2 |
| 15 | Norway | 362-365=727 | +7 |
| T16 | Wales * | 363-367=730 | +10 |
| T16 | Portugal | 367-363=730 | +10 |
| 18 | Belgium | 366-371=737 | +17 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 367-372=739 | +19 |
| 20 | Russia | 379-402=781 | +61 |
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Scott Fernandez | Spain | 66-69=135 | −9 |
| T2 | Adrián Otaegui | Spain | 70-67=137 | −7 |
| T2 | Thomas Pieters | Belgium | 70-67=137 | −7 |
| T4 | Paul Cutler | Ireland | 66-72=138 | −6 |
| T4 | Guðmundur Kristjánsson | Iceland | 71-67=138 | −6 |
| T4 | Ólafur Loftsson | Iceland | 66-72=138 | −6 |
| T7 | Lucas Bjerregaard | Denmark | 67-72=139 | −5 |
| T7 | James Byrne | Scotland | 70-69=139 | −5 |
| T7 | Marc Dobias | Switzerland | 71-68=139 | −5 |
| T7 | Alexander Lévy | France | 66-73=139 | −5 |
| T7 | Kevin Phelan | Ireland | 68-71=139 | −5 |
| T7 | Tapio Pulkkanen | Finland | 71-68=139 | −5 |
| T7 | Benedict Staben | Germany | 69-70=138 | −5 |
| T7 | Martin Tavoda | Slovakia | 71-68=139 | −5 |
Flight A
| Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semi finals | Semi finals | Final | Final |
| Germany | 4 | | |
| Scotland | 3 | | |
| Scotland | 3 | France | 4.5 |
| | | Germany | 2.5 |
| France | 4.5 | Germany | 2.5 |
| Ireland | 2.5 | | | | |
| Ireland | 2.5 | | | France | 4.5 |
| | | | | Switzerland | 2.5 |
| Switzerland | 5 | | | Switzerland | 2.5 |
| Finland | 2 | | | | |
| Finland | 2 | Switzerland | 4.5 | | |
| | | Sweden | 2.5 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| Sweden | 5.5 | Sweden | 2.5 | Bronze match | Bronze match |
| Spain | 1.5 | | | | |
| Spain | 1.5 | | | Sweden | 4 |
| | | | | Germany | 3 |
| Elimination matches | Elimination matches | Match for 5th place | Match for 5th place |
| Scotland | 3.5 |
| Ireland | 1.5 | | |
| Ireland | 1.5 | Spain | 3.5 |
| | | Scotland | 1.5 |
| Spain | 5 | Scotland | 1.5 |
| Finland | 0 | | |
| Finland | 0 | Match for 7th place | Match for 7th place |
| | | Finland | 3 |
| | | Ireland | 2 |
| France | Switzerland |
| 4.5 | 2.5 |
| A. Lévy / G. Stal 2 up | M. Dobias / A. Gabella |
| C. Bouniol / É. España 20th hole | B. Rusch / E. Amacher |
| Alexander Lévy 5 & 4 | Arthur Gabella |
| Sébastian Gros AS * | Marc Dobias AS * |
| Julien Brun | Benjamin Rusch 1 up |
| Gary Stal | Marco Iten 4 & 3 |
| Édouard España 3 & 2 | Edouard Amacher |
Flight B
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 2 | Match for 9th place | Match for 9th place |
| Norway | 4 | | |
| Iceland | 1 | | |
| Iceland | 1 | Austria | 3 |
| | | Norway | 2 |
| Austria | 4 | Norway | 2 |
| Italy | 1 | | | | |
| Italy | 1 | | | Wales | 3.5 |
| | | | | Austria | 1.5 |
| Denmark | 3.5 | | | Austria | 1.5 |
| Netherlands | 1.5 | | | | |
| Netherlands | 1.5 | Wales | 3.5 | | |
| | | Denmark | 1.5 | Match for 11th place | Match for 11th place |
| Wales | 4 | Denmark | 1.5 | Match for 11th place | Match for 11th place |
| England | 1 | | | | |
| England | 1 | | | Denmark | 4 |
| | | | | Norway | 1 |
| Elimination matches | Elimination matches | Match for 13th place | Match for 13th place |
| Italy | 4 |
| Iceland | 1 | | |
| Iceland | 1 | Italy | 3.5 |
| | | Netherlands | 1.5 |
| Netherlands | 3 | Netherlands | 1.5 |
| England | 2 | | |
| England | 2 | Match for 15th place | Match for 15th place |
| | | England | 4 |
| | | Iceland | 1 |
Flight C
| Belgium | Slovakia |
| 3.5 | 1.5 |
| Portugal | Russia |
| 5 | 0 |
| Belgium | Russia |
| 4 | 1 |
| Portugal | Slovakia |
| 5 | 0 |
| Slovakia | Russia |
| 4 | 1 |
| Portugal | Belgium |
| 4.5 | 0.5 |
Final standings
| Place | Country |
| | France |
| | Switzerland |
| | Sweden |
| 4 | Germany |
| 5 | Spain |
| 6 | Scotland |
| 7 | Finland |
| 8 | Ireland |
| 9 | Wales |
| 10 | Austria |
| 11 | Denmark |
| 12 | Norway |
| 13 | Italy |
| 14 | Netherlands |
| 15 | England |
| 16 | Iceland |
| 17 | Portugal |
| 18 | Belgium |
| 19 | Slovakia |
| 20 | Russia |
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