The hosting course, one of the oldest on the island of Ireland, originally designed by Old Tom Morris and located in naturally links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve, stretching along the shores of Dundrum Bay, was established in 1889.[1]
The championship course was set up with par 73 over 7,011 yards.[2]
Format
All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke-play with six players, counted the five best scores 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 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. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single games after the morning foursome 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 after 18 holes 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 match-play, with one foursome game and four single games, to decide their final positions.
The three teams placed 17–19 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight C, to meet each other, with one foursome game and four single games, to decide their final positions.
Teams
19 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.
Team Scotland, who never had won the championship, lead the opening 36-hole qualifying competition, with an 8 over par score of 738, ten strokes ahead of home team Ireland, combined from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Defending champions Sweden, searching their fourth win in a row, and the Czech Republic, was another stroke back.
Individual leader in the 36-hole stroke-play competition was Hannah Darling, Scotland, with a score of 9 under par 137, three strokes ahead of Jana Melichova, Czech Republic.
Team England won the championship, beating defending champions Sweden 5–2 in the final and earned their eleventh title. With the win, England became the nation with most win in the history of the championship, one more than Sweden.
Team Italy earned third place, beating Scotland 51⁄2–11⁄2 in the bronze match.
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was first determined by the better total number of won games and second by the better total won holes advantage.
^"Tre medaljer vid Lag-EM 2021" [Three medals at the European Team Championships]. golf.se (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
