# 2011 Vivendi Seve Trophy

The 2011 Vivendi Seve Trophy, formerly known as the Seve Trophy, was played 15–18 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in France. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley, with the captain for Continental Europe being Jean van de Velde. Great Britain and Ireland won the Trophy for the sixth consecutive time.

## Format

The teams competed over four days with five fourball matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles matches on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14½ points required for victory. If the score finished at 14–14, then two players from each team to play using the greensomes format to find the winner.
The prize money remained the same as for the 2009 event. Each member of the winner team received €65,000, the losing team €55,000 each, giving a total prize fund of €1,150,000.

## Teams

The teams were made up of five leading players from the Official World Golf Rankings as of 5 September 2011 and five leading players (not otherwise qualified) from the Race to Dubai at the conclusion of the Omega European Masters (5 September 2011). There were a number of players (listed after each table below) who qualified for the trophy, but pulled out.
Raphaël Jacquelin was a late replacement for Álvaro Quirós who withdrew from the Continental Europe team with a wrist injury. Quirós had qualified as one of the leading 5 players in the World Rankings (world ranked 33). After his withdrawal his place amongst the World Rankings qualifiers was taken by Miguel Ángel Jiménez who had previously qualified through the Race to Dubai list. Jiménez's place in the Race to Dubai list was taken by Jacquelin.
Team GB&I :
| Name | Country | Qualification | World Ranking | Race to Dubai |
| Paul McGinley | Ireland | Non-playing captain | — | — |
| Lee Westwood | England | World Rankings | 2 | 5 |
| Ian Poulter | England | World Rankings | 18 | 15 |
| Darren Clarke | Northern Ireland | World Rankings | 38 | 8 |
| Simon Dyson | England | World Rankings | 55 | 10 |
| Ross Fisher | England | World Rankings | 72 | 43 |
| Mark Foster | England | Race to Dubai | 125 | 22 |
| Robert Rock | England | Race to Dubai | 114 | 30 |
| Jamie Donaldson | Wales | Race to Dubai | 92 | 33 |
| David Horsey | England | Race to Dubai | 106 | 37 |
| Scott Jamieson | Scotland | Race to Dubai | 164 | 38 |
The following players qualified but did not play: Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Paul Casey, Justin Rose. Donald and Rose were playing in the BMW Championship.
Team Continental Europe :
| Name | Country | Qualification | World Ranking | Race to Dubai |
| Jean van de Velde | France | Non-playing captain | — | — |
| Francesco Molinari | Italy | World Rankings | 24 | 18 |
| Anders Hansen | Denmark | World Rankings | 26 | 6 |
| Thomas Bjørn | Denmark | World Rankings | 28 | 7 |
| Matteo Manassero | Italy | World Rankings | 31 | 19 |
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez | Spain | World Rankings | 36 | 12 |
| Alex Norén | Sweden | Race to Dubai | 68 | 9 |
| Pablo Larrazábal | Spain | Race to Dubai | 91 | 11 |
| Nicolas Colsaerts | Belgium | Race to Dubai | 79 | 14 |
| Peter Hanson | Sweden | Race to Dubai | 51 | 21 |
| Raphaël Jacquelin | France | Race to Dubai | 84 | 23 |
Apart from Quirós, the following players qualified but did not play: Martin Kaymer, Robert Karlsson, Sergio García. Karlsson and García were playing in the BMW Championship.

## Day one

Thursday, 15 September 2011

### Fourball

| | Results | |
| Donaldson/Dyson | 2 & 1 | Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| Fisher/Jamieson | 6 & 4 | Hanson/Jacquelin |
| Foster/Westwood | 1 up | Hansen/Molinari |
| Clarke/Horsey | 1 up | Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Poulter/Rock | 5 & 3 | Bjørn/Norén |
| 4 | Session | 1 |
| 4 | Overall | 1 |
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## Day two

Friday, 16 September 2011

### Fourball

| | Results | |
| Donaldson/Dyson | halved | Bjørn/Jacquelin |
| Poulter/Rock | 5 & 3 | Hanson/Norén |
| Fisher/Jamieson | 2 up | Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Foster/Westwood | 5 & 3 | Hansen/Molinari |
| Clarke/Horsey | 3 & 2 | Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| 1½ | Session | 3½ |
| 5½ | Overall | 4½ |
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## Day three

Saturday, 17 September 2011

### Morning greensomes

| | Results | |
| Donaldson/Dyson | 2 & 1 | Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Clarke/Horsey | halved | Hanson/Norén |
| Fisher/Poulter | 2 & 1 | Bjørn/Jacquelin |
| Jamieson/Westwood | 4 & 3 | Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| 3½ | Session | ½ |
| 9 | Overall | 5 |
Source:

### Afternoon foursomes

| | Results | |
| Donaldson/Rock | halved | Manassero/Molinari |
| Fisher/Foster | 3 & 2 | Bjørn/Hansen |
| Dyson/Poulter | 3 & 1 | Larrazábal/Norén |
| Horsey/Westwood | 4 & 3 | Colsaerts/Jacquelin |
| 2½ | Session | 1½ |
| 11½ | Overall | 6½ |
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## Day four

Sunday, 18 September 2011

### Singles

| | Results | |
| Lee Westwood | 2 & 1 | Thomas Bjørn |
| Simon Dyson | 1 up | Anders Hansen |
| Jamie Donaldson | 4 & 3 | Francesco Molinari |
| Robert Rock | 4 & 3 | Alex Norén |
| Darren Clarke | 4 & 2 | Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| David Horsey | halved | Nicolas Colsaerts |
| Scott Jamieson | 1 up | Pablo Larrazábal |
| Ian Poulter | 1 up | Matteo Manassero |
| Mark Foster | 1 up | Raphaël Jacquelin |
| Ross Fisher | halved | Peter Hanson |
| 4 | Session | 6 |
| 15½ | Overall | 12½ |
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