2007 European Amateur Team Championship

The 2007 European Amateur Team Championship took place 3 – 7 July at Western Gailes Golf Club in Irvine, North Ayrshire, 50 kilometres south west of the city center of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was the 25th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.
The club was founded in 1897. Its 18 hole links course on the Ayrshire coast was ready in 1899 and remained largely unmodified from its original layout. It is situated closely north of Royal Troon Golf Club and Prestwick Golf Club.
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.
Defending champions and nine-time-winners team England won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 7-under-par score of 703. Tied five strokes behind were host nation Scotland and team France. Scotland earned 2nd place on the tiebreaking better non-counting scores.
There was no official award for the lowest individual score, but individual leaders were Kevin McAlpine, Scotland, Rory McIlroy, Ireland and Paul Waring, England, each with a 6-under-par score of 136, two strokes ahead of Jesper Kennegård, Sweden, and Morten Ørum Madsen, Denmark.
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.
Team Ireland won the gold medal, earning their fifth title and first since 1987, beating team France in the final 4½–2½. The winning Irish team, combined from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, included two future professional major winners, 18-year-old Rory McIlroy and 20-year-old Shane Lowry.
Team Scotland, earned the bronze on third place, after beating neighbor nation England 4–3 in the bronze match.
Teams.
20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event two years earlier. Turkey 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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