2010 World Amateur Team Championships

 

For the second time, Olivos Golf Club will host the World Amateur Team Championships. An event created to encourage the International development of golf and to foster friendship and sportsmanship among the peoples of the world through the conduct biennially of Amateur Team Championships for the Eisenhower Trophy for men and the Espirito Santo Trophy for ladies. This important competition will be played from 16-31 October at Olivos Golf Club and Buenos Aires Golf Club.

The ladies will begin their competition with players representing 48 countries. On the second week it will be the turn of the men, from 65 countries. Both events will be played during 72 holes and the format will be “Aggregate Stroke Play” of teams with three players, with the lowest two rounds counting as the score of the day. As many of you know, the last World Championships were held in 2008, in Adelaide, Australia. The winners of that event were Sweden (ladies) and Scotland (men).

The organizers of the event, the International Golf Federation, the USGA and the R&A together with the AAG, have agreed that there will be four days of practice prior to the beginning of the tournament both for the ladies as for the men, and the competition itself will start on Wednesday 20th for the women’s teams and on Thursday 28th for the men’s teams.

The three golf courses at Olivos, including the practice areas and the practice putting greens will be open exclusively for the WATC’s players from Thursday, October 14th until Sunday, October 31st inclusive.

Olivos Golf Club is proud to be the only Golf Club in the world to have hosted a World Amateur Team Championship twice. The previous one was held in the year 1972.