2008 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2008 European Amateur Team Championship took place 1 – 5 July at Royal Park Golf &Country Club on its Allianz Course in Fiano, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) northwest of Turin, in the region Piedmont, Italy. It was the 26th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
It was the first time the championship was played in consecutive years, since its inauguration in 1959.
The club was founded in 1971 by the Agnelli family. Its first course, the Allianz Course, a parkland and forest course, was designed the same year by Robert Trent Jones Sr.
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.
Five-time-winners team Scotland won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 22-under-par score of 698. Tied five strokes behind were team Sweden and team Germany. Sweden earned 2nd place on the tie breaking better non-counting scores. Host nation Italy, with 15-year-old future European Tour winner Matteo Manassero in the team, finished 5th.
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leader were Wallace Booth, Scotland, with a 10-under-par score of 134, two strokes ahead of Jorge Campillo, Spain, and Callum Macaulay, Scotland.
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 were 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 played 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.
Defending champions team Ireland, led by team captain Michael Burns, won the gold medal, earning their sixth title, beating team England in the final 4½–2½. The winning Irish team, combined from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, included future professional major winner 21-year-old Shane Lowry.
Team Germany, earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 4–3 in the bronze match.
Teams.
20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Poland took part for the first time. Each team consisted of six players.
Players in the leading teams
Other participating teams
Results.
Qualification round
Team standings
Individual leaders
Flight A
Quarter finals
Elimination matches
Match for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Semi finals
Bronze match
Final
Flight B
First round elimination matches
Second round elimination matches
Match for 15th place
Match for 13th place
Match for 11th place
Match for 9th place
Flight C
First round
Second round
Third round
Final standings
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