1977 European Ladies' Team Championship
Tournament information
Dates6–10 July 1977
LocationSotogrande, Spain
36°16′35″N 5°18′4″W / 36.27639°N 5.30111°W / 36.27639; -5.30111
Course(s)Real Club de Golf Sotogrande
Organized byEuropean Golf Association
Format36 holes stroke play
Knock-out match-play
Statistics
Par72
Field14 teams
circa 70 players
Champion
 England
Mary Everard, Julia Greenhalgh,
Dinah Henson, Beverly Huke,
Vanessa Marvin, Angela Uzielli
Qualification round: 609 (+33)
Final match 6–1
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The 1977 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 6–10 July at Real Club de Golf Sotogrande in Sotogrande, Province of Cádiz, Spain. It was the tenth women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.

Venue

The hosting club was founded in 1964 and the course was designed by Robert Trent Jones. It had previously hosted the men's professional Open de España in 1966. In 1994, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I granted to Sotogrande the title of Real.[1]

The championship course was set up with par 72.

Format

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke-play with up to five players, counted the four best scores for each team.

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. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single games after the morning foursome games. Games all square after 18 holes were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.

The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.

Teams

14 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.

Players in the leading teams

CountryPlayers
 Belgium Louise Van den Berghe, Maguy Brose, Isabelle Declerq, Marianne Toussaint, Francoise De Wagheneire
 England Mary Everard, Julia Greenhalgh, Dinah Henson, Beverly Huke, Vanessa Marvin, Angela Uzielli
 France Martine Giraud, Nathalie Jeanson, A. Lanzerac, Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue, Anne Marie Palli
 Ireland Mary Gorry, Mary McKenna, Claire Nesbitt Robinson
 Italy Boeri, Minette Marazza, Eva Ragher, Rindi, Pischiutta, P. Tolomei
 Scotland C. Lugton, Sandra Needham, Joan Smith, Cathy Panton, Muriel Thomson
 Spain Elena Corominas, Marta Figueras-Dotti, Emma Villacieros de García-Ogara, Cristina Marsans, Carmen Maestre de Pellon
 SwedenMonica Andersson, Hillevi Hagström, Anna Skanse Dönnestad, Charlotte Montgomery, Pia Nilsson, Liv Wollin
 Wales Audrey Briggs, Pam Light, Tegwen Perkins, Vicki Rawlings, Pamela Whitley Valentine
 West Germany Marietta Gütermann, Susanne Schultz, Jeannette Weghmann, Barbara Böhm, Marion Thannhäuser

Other participating teams

Country
 Denmark
 Netherlands
 Norway
  Switzerland

Winners

Host nation Spain won the opening 36-hole competition, with a score of 28 over par 604, five strokes ahead of team England. Defending champions France finished another three strokes back on third place.

Individual leader in the opening 36-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Cristina Marsans, Spain, with a score of 3-under-par 141, six strokes ahead of Vanessa Marvin, England, and Anna Skanse Dönnestad, Sweden. With her score of 69 in the second round, Marsans was the only player with a round under par.[2]

Louise Van den Berghe, Belgium, made a hole-in-one on the par 3, 110 meters, 17th hole during the first round of the stroke-play competition.[2]

Team England won the championship, earning their fifth title, beating Spain in the final 6–1. Team Sweden, earned third place, finishing on the podium for the fourth time, beating Scotland 412–212 in the third place match.

Results

Qualification round

Flight A

Flight B

Bracket

 
Round 1Round 2Match for 9th place
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Switzerland
 
 
 
 Norway
 
  Switzerland4.5
 
 
 
 Netherlands2.5
 
 Wales4
 
 
 
  Switzerland3
 
 Belgium4
 
 
 
 Denmark3
 
 Wales
 
 
 BelgiumMatch for 11th place
 
 
 
 
 
 Belgium4
 
 
 Norway3
 
 
Round 1Match for 13th place
 
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Netherlands4.5
 
 
 Denmark2.5
 
 
 
 

Final standings

Place Country
1st place, gold medalist(s)  England
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden
4  Scotland
5  France
6  Italy
7  Ireland
8  West Germany
9  Wales
10   Switzerland
11  Belgium
12  Norway
13  Netherlands
14  Denmark

Sources:[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

See also

References

  1. "Historia" [History] (in French). Real Club de Golf Sotogrande. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Brolin, Åke (August 1977). "Trots snöplig förlust: Bravo, flickor!" [Despite snotty loss: Bravo, girls!]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6. pp. 23–24. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  3. Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 185. ISBN 9172603283. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  4. Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  5. "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  6. "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  7. "Sports in Brief, Golf". The Times (London, England). 7 July 1977. p. 11.
  8. "Golf". The Times (London, England). 8 July 1977. p. 9.
  9. "Golf". The Times (London, England). 9 July 1977. p. 4.
  10. Ryde, Peter (11 July 1977). "Golf, England win European title by emphatic margin". The Times (London, England). p. 5.
  11. "English women top in Europe". The Glasgow Herald. 11 July 1977. p. 19.
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