# 1965 European Ladies' Team Championship

The 1965 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 5–10 July at Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club in Wassenaar, 10 kilometres north of the city center of The Hague, Netherlands. It was the fourth women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.

## Venue

The course was designed in 1938, by Harry Colt and C.H. Alison and is situated in an undulating dune landscape.
The championship course was set up with par 73.
It was raining and blowing hard winds during the tournament.

## Format

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next four teams formed flight B and the last three teams formed flight C.
The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, two foursome games and four single games were played.

## Teams

A record number of eleven nation teams contested the event. England, Scotland and Wales took part for the first time. Ireland was announced to participate but withdraw before the tournament. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.
Players in the leading teams
| Country | Players |
| England | Ann Irvin, Marley Spearman, Susan Armitage, Ruth Porter, Jill Thornhill |
| France | Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur, Brigitte Varangot |
| Italy | F. Bastianello, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione, Bianca Martini, Marina Ragher, Marion Tadini |
| Netherlands | A.E. Eschauzier, Annie van Lanschot, M. Mevus, Anneke van Riemsdijk |
| Scotland | Marjory Fowler, Joan Lawrence, Belle Robertson, Janette Wright |
| Sweden | Liv Forsell, Louise Johansson Wingård, Britt Mattsson, Cécilia Perslow, Nina Rehnqvist, Ann-Katrin Svensson |
| Wales | Elsie Brown, P. Griffiths Davies, Ann Hughes Johnson, Pat Roberts, Nancy Wright |
| West Germany | Marietta Gütermann, Barbara Hobirk, Monika Möller, Marion Petersen |
Other participating teams
* Country
* Belgium
* Spain
* Switzerland

## Winners

Team England, participating for the first time, won the championship, earning 5 points in flight A.
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Brigitte Varangot, France, with a score of 4-over-par 150.

## Results

Qualification rounds
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | France | 226-228=454 | +16 |
| 2 | England | 230-230=460 | +22 |
| 3 | Scotland | 236-233=469 | +31 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 241-245=486 | +48 |
| 5 | Wales | 244-244=488 | +50 |
| 6 | West Germany | 248-242=490 | +52 |
| 7 | Sweden | 249-251=500 | +62 |
| 8 | Italy | 257-248=505 | +67 |
| 9 | Belgium | 259-252=511 | +73 |
| 10 | Spain | 256-264=520 | +82 |
| 11 | Switzerland | 285-314=599 | +161 |
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Brigitte Varangot | France | 74-76=150 | +4 |
| 2 | Ann Irvin | England | 77-75=152 | +6 |
| T3 | Odile Garaialde Semelaigne | France | 77-77=154 | +8 |
| T3 | Janette Wright | Scotland | 78-76=154 | +8 |
Flight A
Team matches
| 1 | England | Scotland | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | France | Netherlands | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | England | Netherlands | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | France | Scotland | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | England | France | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 2 | Scotland | Netherlands | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
| England | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12.5–5.5 | 5 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10–8 | 3 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8.5–9.5 | 3 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5–13 | 1 |
Flight B
Team matches
| 2 | Italy | Wales | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | West Germany | Sweden | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Sweden | Wales | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 2 | West Germany | Italy | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | West Germany | Wales | 0 |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 2 | Italy | Sweden | 0 |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
| West Germany | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13.5–4.5 | 6 |
| Italy | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11.5–6.5 | 4 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7–11 | 2 |
| Wales | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4–14 | 0 |
Flight C
Team matches
| 2 | Spain | Switzerland | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Belgium | Switzerland | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Spain | Belgium | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
| Spain | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9.5–2.5 | 4 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6.5–5.5 | 2 |
| Switzerland | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2–10 | 0 |
Final standings
| Place | Country |
| | England |
| | Scotland |
| | France |
| 4 | Netherlands |
| 5 | West Germany |
| 6 | Italy |
| 7 | Sweden |
| 8 | Wales |
| 9 | Spain |
| 10 | Belgium |
| 11 | Switzerland |
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