1959 European Ladies' Team Championship

Golf competition

Golf tournament

Golf und Land Club Köln

Location in Europe

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Golf und Land Club Köln

Location in Germany

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Golf und Land Club Köln

Location in the Province of North Rhine-Westphalia

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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.

Venue

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.

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 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.

Teams

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

Players in some of the teams

Country	Players
France	Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain)*, Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot
Italy	Rosanna Bergamo, Wanda Bohus Rosa, Paula Cobianchi, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione (playing captain), Pinto
Sweden	Gertrud Ahlberg, Marianne Bergengren, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Britt Matsson, Margareta Warberg
West Germany	Ilse Groos, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger, Inez Stille

* Note: Playing captain Lally de Saint-Sauveur did not play the qualification round and played one single game and two foursome games in flight A.

Other participating teams

Country
Belgium
Netherlands

Winners

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.

Results

Qualification rounds

Team standings

Place	Country	Score	To par
1	France	229-218=447	+3
2	Belgium	243-232=475	+31
3	Italy	246-235=481	+37
4	Netherlands	244-241=485	+41
5	West Germany	247-242=489	+45
6	Sweden	259-241=500	+56

Individual leader

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Odile Garaialde Semelaigne	France	70-73=143	−5

Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Team matches

2	Italy	Belgium	0
4		2

2	France	Netherlands	0
5		1

2	Belgium	Netherlands	0
5		1

2	France	Italy	0
4		2

2	Italy	Netherlands	0
6		0

2	France	Belgium	0
5.5		0.5

Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
France	1	2	1	0	14.5–3.5	6
Italy	2	2	0	1	12–6	4
Belgium	3	2	0	1	7.5–10.5	2
Netherlands	4	0	1	2	2–16	0

Flight B

Team match

1	Sweden	West Germany	1
3		3

Team standings

Country	Place	W	T	L	Game points	Points
Sweden	T5	0	1	0	3–3	1
West Germany	T5	0	1	0	3–3	1

Final standings

Place	Country
	France
	Italy
	Belgium
4	Netherlands
T5	Sweden
T5	West Germany

Sources:^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 182. ISBN 9172603283.
^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 192. ISBN 91-86818007.
^ "Fransyskorna suveräna i damernas EM" [The French ladies excelled in the European Ladies' Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. September 1959. pp. 3–5. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
^ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 30 September 2021.
^ "Mannschafts-Europameisterschaften" [Teams, European Team Championships] (PDF) (in German). golf.de, German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.