| 1959 European Ladies' Team Championship | |
| Dates: | 15–20 September 1959 |
| Location: | Cologne, Germany |
| Coordinates: | 50.9667°N 15°W |
| Course: | Golf und Land Club Köln |
| Org: | European Golf Association |
| Format: | 36 holes stroke play round-robin system match play |
| Par: | 74 |
| Yardage: | 5987yd |
| Field: | 6 teams circa 30 players |
| Champion: | Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (captain and substitute player), Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot |
| Score: | Qualification round: 447 (+3) Flight A matches: 6 points |
| Map: | Europe#Germany#North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Map Label: | Golf und Land Club Köln |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Map Size: | 220 |
| Next: | 1961 |
The 1959 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 15–20 September on the Golf und Land Club Köln outside Cologne, Germany. It was the first ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.
The hosting club was founded in 1906 and the championship 18-hole course, situated 10 kilometres east of the city center of Cologne, opened in 1955. The course set up of par 74 had four par-3-holes, eight par-4-holes and six par-5-holes.
The championship course was set up with par 74.
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 two teams 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.
Six nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.
Players in some of the teams
| Country | Players | |
|---|---|---|
| Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain)*, Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot | ||
| Rosanna Bergamo, Wanda Bohus Rosa, Paula Cobianchi, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione (playing captain), Pinto | ||
| Gertrud Ahlberg, Marianne Bergengren, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Britt Matsson, Margareta Warberg | ||
| Ilse Groos, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger, Inez Stille |
Other participating teams
Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, France, with a score of 5-under-par 143.
Team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A.
Qualification roundsTeam standings
| Place | Country | Score | To par | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 229-218=447 | +3 | ||
| 2 | 243-232=475 | +31 | ||
| 3 | 246-235=481 | +37 | ||
| 4 | 244-241=485 | +41 | ||
| 5 | 247-242=489 | +45 | ||
| 6 | 259-241=500 | +56 |
| align=center width=10 | 2 | align=center width=140 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2 | ||||
| align=center width=10 | 2 | align=center width=140 | align=center ! width=140 | 0 | ||
| 5 | 1 | |||||
| align=center width=10 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 5 | 1 | |||
| align=center width=10 | 2 | align=center width=140 | align=center width=140 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2 | |||||
| align=center width=10 | 2 | align=center width=140 | 0 | ||
| 6 | 0 | ||||
| align=center width=10 | 2 | align=center width=140 | 0 | ||
| 5.5 | 0.5 | ||||
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14.5–3.5 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12–6 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7.5–10.5 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2–16 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 | 3 | |||
| Country | Place | W | T | L | Game points | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3–3 | 1 | ||
| T5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3–3 | 1 |
| Place | Country |
|---|---|
| 4 | |
| T5 | |