The 2023 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 11âÂÂ15 July at Tawast Golf & Country Club in Hämeenlinna, Finland. It was the 40th women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship.
Team Spain won the championship.
The hosting course is situated in Hämeenlinna (Tawastehus in Swedish) in southern Finland about 100 kilometers north of capital city Helsinki. The course, surrounded by woodland and a lake, was designed by architect Reijo Hillberg.
Each team consisted of six players. On the first two days each player played 18 holes of stroke play each day. The lowest five scores from each team's six players counted to the team total each day.
The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the following three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team was 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. Extra holes were played in games that are all square after 18 holes. However, if the result of the team match was already decided, games were declared halved.
The next eight teams in the stroke-play stage formed flight B, also played knock-out match-play, but with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
The teams placed 17âÂÂ19 in the stroke-play stage formed flight C, to meet each other to decide their final positions.
19 nation teams contested the event.
Team Sweden lead the opening 36-hole qualifying competition, with a 44 under par score of 676, 14 strokes ahead of team Germany.
Individual leader in the 36-hole stroke-play competition was, Meja ÃÂrtengren, Sweden, with a score of 13 under par 131, two strokes ahead of three players at tied second.
Team Spain won the championship, beating defending champion England 4âÂÂ2 in the final and earned their sixth title.
Team Germany earned third place, beating Switzerland 6âÂÂ1 in the bronze match.
Qualification round
<small>* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the<br>best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.</small>
<small> Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.</small>
Flight A
Bracket
Final games
<small>* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.</small>
Flight B
Bracket
Flight C
Team matches
<small>* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better total number of won games.</small>
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