2008 European Amateur Team Championship

The club was founded in 1971 by the Agnelli family. Its first course, the Allianz Course, a parkland and forest course, in Fiano, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) northwest of Turin, in the region Piedmont, Italy, was designed the same year by Robert Trent Jones Sr.^[2]

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.

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.^[1]

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.

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.^[1][3][4]

Players in the leading teams

Country	Players
Austria	Hans Peter Bacher, Tano Kromer, Bernhard Reiter, Florian Sander, Philipp Sharma, Johannes Steiner
Denmark	Peter Baunsoe, Morten Ørum Madsen, Kristian Nielsen, Rasmus Hjelm Nielsen, Jacob Roth
England	Charlie Ford, Matt Haines, Sam Hutsby, Steve Uzzell, Dale Whitnell, Chris Wood
Finland	Janne Kaske, Immu Korvenmaa, Tuomas Pollari, Mikael Salminen, Kalle Samooja, Henri Satama
France	David Antoneli, Édouard Dubois, Victor Dubuisson, Benjamin Hebert, Alexandre Kaleka, Jean Wolff
Germany	Sean Einhaus, Florian Fritsch, Stephan Gross, Allen John, Maximilian Kieffer, Alexander Knappe
Ireland	Jonathan Caldwell, Paul Cutler, Niall Kearney, Shane Lowry, Paul O'Hanlon, Gareth Shaw
Italy	Nino Bertasio, Federico Colombo, Matteo Manassero, Andrea Pavan, Cristiano Terragni, Claudio Vigano
Netherlands	Tristan Bierenbroodspot, Richard Kind, Reinier Saxton, Tim Sluiter, Jurrian Van Der Vaart, Floris de Vries
Norway	Morten Erik Bergan, Knut Børsheim, Tor Erik Knudsen, Espen Kofstad, Markus Leandersson, Joakim Mikkelsen
Scotland	Wallace Booth, Gavin Dear, Callum Macaulay, Paul O'Hara, Keir M'Nicoll, Michael Stewart
Spain	Jorge Campillo, Moises Cobo, Borja Etchart, Pedro Oriol, Carlos Pigem, Juan Sarasti,
Sweden	Jesper Kennegård, Henrik Norlander, Tobias Rosendahl, Fredrik Quicker, Pontus Widegren, Björn Åkesson
Wales	Nigel Edwards, Ben Enoch, Rhys Enoch, Craig Evans, Zac Gould, Ben Westgate

Other participating teams

Country
Belgium
Estonia
Iceland
Poland
Portugal
Switzerland

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.^[1]

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.

Defending champions team Ireland, led by team captain Michael Burns, won the gold medal, earning their sixth title, beating team England in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The winning Irish team, combined from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, included future professional major winner 21-year-old Shane Lowry.^[5][6]

Team Germany, earned the bronze on third place, after beating France 4–3 in the bronze match.^[5][6]

Qualification round

* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.

Individual leaders

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Wallace Booth	Scotland	69-65=134	−10
T2	Jorge Campillo	Spain	68-67=135	−9
	Callum Macaulay	Scotland	65-70=135
T4	Tobias Rosendal	Sweden	68-69=137	−7
	Chris Wood	England	72-65=137
T6	Espen Kofstad	Norway	69-69=138	−6
	Alexander Knappe	Germany	67-71=138
	Gareth Shaw	Ireland	68-70=138
	Floris de Vries	Netherlands	64-74=138
T10	Borja Etchart	Spain	68-71=139	−5
	Sam Hutsby	England	70-69=139
	Henrik Norlander	Sweden	70-69=139
	Andrea Pavan	Italy	68-71=139

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

Flight A

	Elimination matches				Match for 5th place
	Spain	3
	Sweden	2
					Scotland	3
					Spain	2
	Scotland	3.5
	Italy	1.5
					Match for 7th place
					Sweden	3
					Italy	2

Final games

Ireland	England
4.5	2.5
G. Shaw / S. Lowry	C. Wood / S. Hutsby 1 hole
P. Cutler / J. Caldwell 3 & 1	S. Uzzell / D. Whitnell
Gareth Shaw 2 & 1	Charlie Ford
Paul Cutler 1 hole	Chris Wood
Niall Kearney 3 & 2	Matt Haines
Jonathan Caldwell AS *	Sam Hutsby AS *
Shane Lowry	Dale Whitnell 5 & 3

* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.

Flight B

Bracket

	Elimination matches				Match for 13th place
	Belgium	5
	Norway	0
					Norway	3.5
					Wales	1.5
	Wales	3
	Finland	2
					Match for 15th place
					Belgium	3
					Finland	2

Flight C

Iceland	Estonia
5	0

Second round

Switzerland	Estonia
4	1

Iceland	Poland
5	0

Third round

Iceland	Switzerland
3	2

Poland	Estonia
3	2

Final standings

Place	Country
	Ireland
	England
	Germany
4	France
5	Scotland
6	Spain
7	Sweden
8	Italy
9	Netherlands
10	Austria
11	Denmark
12	Portugal
13	Norway
14	Wales
15	Belgium
16	Finland
17	Iceland
18	Switzerland
19	Poland
20	Estonia

Sources:^[5][6][1][4]

• European Golf Association – Organizer of European amateur golf championships
• Eisenhower Trophy – biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.
• European Ladies' Team Championship – European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association.

• European Golf Association: Full results