2011 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2011 European Amateur Team Championship took place 5 – 9 July at Oceânico Golf in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal on its Victoria Course.[1][2][3] It was the 29th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.

2011 European Amateur Team Championship

Tournament information
Dates	5 – 9 July 2011
Location	Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal 37°4′40″N 8°6′55″W
Course(s)	Oceânico Golf (Victoria Course)
Organized by	European Golf Association
Format	Qualification round: 36 holes stroke play Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,174 yards (6,560 m)
Field	20 teams 120 players
Champion
France Cyril Bouniol, Julien Brun, Édouard España, Sébastien Gros, Alexander Lévy, Gary Stal
Qualification round: 702 (–18) Final match: 4½–2½
Location Map
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The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004. In 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.[4]

Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.

Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Spain, with a 24-under-par score of 696. Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter finals, finishing ninth in the qualifying round.

There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader was Scott Fernandez, Spain, with a 9-under-par score of 135, two strokes ahead of Adrián Otaegui, Spain and Thomas Pieters, Belgium.

The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team was drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Teams knocked out after the quarter finals were allowed to play one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

The four teams placed 17–20 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.

Team France won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating team Switzerland in the final 4½–2½.

Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Germany 4–3 in the bronze match.