1961 European Ladies' Team Championship Explained

1961 European Ladies' Team Championship
Dates:	22–27 September 1961
Location:	Como, Italy
Coordinates:	45.7778°N 9.1361°W
Course:	Circolo Golf Villa D'Este
Org:	European Golf Association
Format:	36 holes stroke play round-robin system match play
Par:	69
Field:	8 teams circa 38 players
Champion:	Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan, M Mahé, Lally de Saint-Sauveur, Brigitte Varangot
Score:	Qualification round: 441 (+27) Flight A matches: 6 points
Map:	Europe#Italy#Italy Lombardy
Map Label:	Circolo Golf Villa D'Este
Map Relief:	yes
Map Size:	220
Previous:	1959
Next:	1963

The 1961 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 22–27 September on the Circolo Golf Villa D'Este outside Como, Italy. It was the second ladies' amateur golf European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The course, situated 4 kilometres south-east of Como, Lombardy region, the seventh oldest golf course in Italy, was designed by Peter Gannon and opened in 1926.^[1]

The championship course was set up with par 69.

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.

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. Spain and Portugal took part for the first time.

Players in some of the teams

Country	Players
	Claudine Cros, Martine Gajan-Giraud, M. Mahé, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain), Brigitte Varangot
	L. de Boer, M. Henderson, Annie van Lanslot, Anneke van Riemsdijk
	Barbara de Brito e Cunha, Cardie, Cordier, Vera Costa Lennox, Salette de Sousa e Melo
	Gertrud Ahlberg, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Birgit Forsman, Britt Matsson, Ann-Katrin Svensson
	Marietta Gütermann, Vera Möller, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger

Other participating teams

Winners

Defending champions team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A. Host nation Italy earned second place, just as they did at the previous championship two years earlier.

Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Mercedes Etchart de Ártiach, Spain, with a score of 4-over-par 142.

Results

Qualification roundsTeam standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
align=center	1		226-215=441	align=center	+27
align=center	2		229-226=455	+41
T3		229-233=462	+48
		235-227=462
align=center	5		233-236=469	align=center	+55
align=center	6		237-238=475	align=center	+61
align=center	7		242-260=502	align=center	+88
align=center	8		256-256=509	align=center	+95

* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.Individual leader Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score.Flight A

Team matches

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4	2

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4	2

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5	1

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5	1

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4.5	1.5

Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
	1	3	0	0	14–4	6
	2	2	0	1	9–9	4
	3	1	0	1	7.5–10.5	2
	4	0	1	2	5.5–12.5	0

Flight B

Team matches

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6	0

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4	2

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4	2

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4	2

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4.5	1.5

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3.5	2.5

• Note: Sweden was given walkover in three games against the Netherlands and in two games against then West Germany, due to food poisoning.

Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
	5	3	0	1	14.5–3.5	6
	6	2	0	1	9.5–8.5	4
align=left		7	1		1	7.5–10.5	2
	8	0	0	0	4.5–13.5	0

Final standings

Place	Country
4
5
6
7
8

Sources:^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

See also

• Espirito Santo Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organized by the International Golf Federation.
• European Amateur Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association.

External links

• European Golf Association: Results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Il nostro campo, La storia del golf italiano raccontata in 18 buche. Our field, The history of Italian golf told in 18 holes. 1 October 2021. Villa d'Este Golf Club. Italian.
2. Book: Jansson, Anders. Golf - Den gröna sporten. 1979. Swedish Golf Federation. 9172603283. 182. sv. Golf - The green sport.
3. Book: Jansson, Anders. Golf - Den stora sporten. 2004. Swedish Golf Federation. 91-86818007. 192. sv. Golf - The great sport.
4. Web site: European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association. 30 September 2021.
5. Europeiska Lagmatcher 1961 . sv . European Team Matches 1961 . Svensk Golf . 9-10 . December 1961 . 30 September 2021 . 30.
6. Franska damerna åter suveräna i EM . sv . French Ladies again outstanding at the European Ladies' Team Championship . Svensk Golf . 7 . September–October 1961 . 30 September 2021 . 1.
7. Web site: Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften . German . Teams, European Team Championships . 1 October 2021 . golf.de, German Golf Federation . 4 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211104213154/https://www.golf.de/publish/imagedata/dgv/Internet_Sieger_und_Platzierte_1.1.pdf . dead .