Finland defeats England for 1st European Amateur Team title
7/14/2018 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff
see also: European Amateur Team Championship, Killarney Golf & Fishing Club
Finland defeated England by a 5-2 margin in the final at Sporting Club Berlin
To win the title, Finland had to get past England in the final. It did that by a 5-2 margin. The Finnish team got big points early in the day from the foursomes teams of Matias Honkala and Aleski Myllymaki (2-and-1 victory) and Sami Valimaki and Veeti Mahonen (5-and-4 victory). Later in the afternoon, Finland won two singles matches and halved two. Only England’s Gian Marco Petrozzi, who won the New South Wales Amateur in February, took a full point for his team when he defeated Valimaki.
Before reaching the final against England, Finland defeated Germany in the semifinals, 4-3, and Sweden in the quarterfinals, 3-4.
Denmark defeated host Germany in the bronze medal match by a score of 5-2.
About the European Amateur Team
Teams of 6 players representing their home (European) country. Two rounds of stroke play qualifying in a best- 5-scores-of-6 format determines two match play brackets of 8 teams each. Team matches consist of two best-ball matches and five singles mat...
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