# 2018 European Golf Team Championships – Men's team

The 2018 European Golf Team Championships men's team event was an event forming part of the 2018 European Golf Team Championships tournament being played in August 2018 at Gleneagles, Scotland. 16 two-player teams took part in the competition.
The event was part of the 2018 European Championships, the inaugural edition of the European Championships, a multi-sport event which is to take place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland from 2 to 12 August 2018. Spain 1 took the title from the Iceland team. The Italy 2 team won bronze.

## Format

The European Golf Team Championships are taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland from 8−12 August 2018, featuring a 50/50 gender split in the field with male and female professionals competing for equal prize money in a men's team match play championship, a women's team match play championship, and a mixed team 18-hole foursomes stroke play championship.
The men's team championships featured a round-robin group fourball format, on 8–10 August, with the winners of each of the four groups progressing to the semi-finals where foursomes will determine the winners, on 12 August. In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one point for a halved match, and no points for a loss. Ties between two teams in the standings were determined by their head-to-head result and if teams were still tied for first place then a sudden-death playoff would occur.

## Qualification

Qualification for the Championships was via the European Golf Team Championships points tables based on men's Official World Golf Ranking points earned from tournaments finishing between 10 July 2017 and 9 July 2018 with a maximum of three teams representing any one nation in each event.

## Competitors

| Seed | Country | Players (rank) |
| 1 | Great Britain 1 | Callum Shinkwin (230) & Lee Slattery (233) |
| 2 | Italy 1 | Lorenzo Gagli (275) & Guido Migliozzi (593) |
| 3 | Spain 1 | Pedro Oriol (355) & Scott Fernández (476) |
| 4 | Great Britain 2 | Rhys Enoch (396) & Charlie Ford (509) |
| 5 | Great Britain 3 | Connor Syme (322) & Liam Johnston (381) |
| 6 | Portugal | José-Filipe Lima (341) & Ricardo Santos (738) |
| 7 | Norway | Jarand Ekeland Arnøy (668) & Kristian Krogh Johannessen (493) |
| 8 | Spain 2 | Santiago Tarrío (391) & David Borda (649) |
| 9 | Sweden 1 | Per Längfors (468) & Johan Edfors (759) |
| 10 | Iceland | Birgir Hafþórsson (586) & Axel Bóasson (663) |
| 11 | Poland | Adrian Meronk (588) & Mateusz Gradecki (947) |
| 12 | Italy 2 | Francesco Laporta (566) & Alessandro Tadini (858) |
| 13 | Ireland | Michael Hoey (536) & Neil O'Briain (983) |
| 14 | Denmark | Martin Ovesen (828) & Niklas Nørgaard (1040) |
| 15 | Belgium | Christopher Mivis (537) & Lars Buijs (1782) |
| 16 | Sweden 2 | Daniel Jennevret (843) & Oscar Florén (1749) |

## Results
### Pool play

Teams were divided into 4 groups of 4 teams and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday using the fourball format.
* Round 1 – 8 August
* Round 2 – 9 August
* Round 3 – 10 August
Group A :
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
| 1 | Great Britain 1 vs Spain 2 - Halved | Great Britain 1 vs Spain 2 - Halved | Great Britain 1 vs Spain 2 - Halved |
| 1 | Sweden 2 | 1 up | Sweden 1 |
| 2 | Great Britain 1 | 6 & 5 | Sweden 1 |
| 2 | Spain 2 | 1 up | Sweden 2 |
| 3 | Sweden 2 | 3 & 2 | Great Britain 1 |
| 3 | Spain 2 | 3 & 2 | Sweden 1 |
| Seed | Player | W | L | H | Points | Finish |
| 8 | Spain 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 16 | Sweden 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1 | Great Britain 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Sweden 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Group B :
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
| 1 | Great Britain 3 | 4 & 3 | Great Britain 2 |
| 1 | Italy 2 | 2 & 1 | Ireland |
| 2 | Italy 2 | 2 & 1 | Great Britain 2 |
| 2 | Great Britain 3 | 2 & 1 | Ireland |
| 3 | Ireland | 4 & 3 | Great Britain 2 |
| 3 | Italy 2 | 1 up | Great Britain 3 |
| Seed | Player | W | L | H | Points | Finish |
| 12 | Italy 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 5 | Great Britain 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 13 | Ireland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Great Britain 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Group C :
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
| 1 | Spain 1 | 2 & 1 | Portugal |
| 1 | Poland | 1 up | Denmark |
| 2 | Spain 1 | 2 & 1 | Poland |
| 2 | Portugal | 2 & 1 | Denmark |
| 3 | Denmark | 4 & 3 | Spain 1 |
| 3 | Portugal | 5 & 3 | Poland |
| Seed | Player | W | L | H | Points | Finish |
| 3 | Spain 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | Portugal | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | Poland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Denmark | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Group D :
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
| 1 | Norway | 4 & 3 | Italy 1 |
| 1 | Iceland | 6 & 5 | Belgium |
| 2 | Iceland | 2 & 1 | Italy 1 |
| 2 | Norway | 1 up | Belgium |
| 3 | Italy 1 | 4 & 3 | Belgium |
| 3 | Iceland | 2 up | Norway |
| Seed | Player | W | L | H | Points | Finish |
| 10 | Iceland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 7 | Norway | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | Italy 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | Belgium | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |

### Medal bracket

Sunday, 12 August
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 8 | Spain 2 | | | | |
| 10 | Iceland | 2 & 1 | | | |
| 10 | Iceland | 2 & 1 | 10 | Iceland | |
| | | | 3 | Spain 1 | 2 up |
| 12 | Italy 2 | | 3 | Spain 1 | 2 up |
| 3 | Spain 1 | 2 up | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | | 8 | Spain 2 | |
| | | | 12 | Italy 2 | 5 & 3 |