# 1963 European Ladies' Team Championship

The 1963 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 16–21 July on the Rungsted Golf Club 15 kilometres south of Helsingør, Denmark. It was the third ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.

## 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. Since team West Germany was disqualified, there were three remaining teams and they formed flight B.
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

Eight nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.
Players in the leading teams
| Country | Players |
| Belgium | Juliette de Schutter, Josyane Leysen, J. Vivario, Arlette Engel-Jacquet, Louise Van den Berghe |
| Denmark | Bjørg Dam, Vibeke Knudsen, Tove Palsby Geertz, Anette Slebsager, Karin Vang Sigumfeldt Birch |
| France | Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan-Giraud, Ghintran, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain), Brigitte Varangot |
| Sweden | Liv Forsell, Ann-Marie Brynolf, Britt Matsson, Cecilia Rosenqvist, Ann-Katrin Svensson, Louise Johansson Wingård |
| West Germany | Marietta Gütermann, Barbara Hobirk, Monika Möller, Marion Petersen, Monika Steegman |
Other participating teams
* Country
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Spain

## Winners

Team Belgium won the championship for the first time. Defending champions team France earned second place, on the same number of match points as Belgium, but with fewer won game points. The championship was decided in the last match between Belgium and France and the last single game between Josyane Leysen, Belgium and Lally de Saint-Sauveur, France. The game was tied going into the last hole were both players had putts for birdie. After Segard had failed to make her putt, Leysen made her birdie putt from 5 meters, why Leysen won the game and Belgium tied the match.
Sweden, for the first time on the podium, earned third place. Host nation Denmark made their first appearance in the championship and finished fourth.
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Liv Forsell, Sweden, with a score of 5-over-par 151.

## Results

Qualification rounds
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | France | 235-231=466 | +28 |
| 2 | Belgium | 237-239=476 | +38 |
| 3 | Sweden | 245-240=485 | +47 |
| 4 | Denmark | 496 | +58 |
| T5 | Netherlands* | 497 | +59 |
| T5 | Italy | 497 | +59 |
| 7 | Spain | 503 | +61 |
| DQ | West Germany** | | |
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Liv Forsell | Sweden | 73-78=151 | +5 |
| 2 | Claudine Cros | France | 74-78=152 | +6 |
Flight A
Team matches
| 2 | Belgium | Sweden | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 2 | France | Denmark | 0 |
| 3.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 2 | France | Sweden | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 2 | Belgium | Denmark | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Sweden | Denmark | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | Belgium | France | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
| Belgium | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11.5–6.5 | 5 |
| France | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10–8 | 5 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7–11 | 2 |
| Denmark | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6.5–11.5 | 0 |
Flight B
Team matches
| 2 | Netherlands | Spain | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 2 | Italy | Spain | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Italy | Netherlands | 0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Team standings
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points |
| Italy | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9.5–2.5 | 4 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6–6 | 2 |
| Spain | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.5–9.5 | 0 |
Final standings
| Place | Country |
| | Belgium |
| | France |
| | Sweden |
| 4 | Denmark |
| 5 | Italy |
| 6 | Netherlands |
| 7 | Spain |
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