European Team Shield Championships - Day 1

01 Aug 2018

Croatia and Poland topped the stroke play qualifying stage of the European Team Shield Championships at Riverside Golf Zagreb. 

In the men's event, the hosts, Croatia scored a total of one-over-par (three best of the team's four scores) to earn themselves the number-one seed for the Flight A matchplay. 

Vasileios Kympakis shot the lowest score of the day, a four-under-par 68, to help his team qualify in second position.

The top-eight teams from the stroke play qualify for Flight A and will have a chance to win medals over the next three days of matchplay. They are:

  1. Croatia
  2. Greece
  3. Malta
  4. Hungary
  5. Bulgaria
  6. Cyprus
  7. Liechtenstein
  8. Lithuania

In the Ladies' event, Poland had the lowest team total with 15-over-par. Serbia's Jefimija Dordevic carded the lowest individual score of the day, a one-over-par 73.

The qualifying teams for the Flight A matchplay bracket, and their respective seedings are:

  1. Poland
  2. Latvia
  3. Greece
  4. Serbia
  5. Luxembourg
  6. Hungary

Men's Flight A matchplay livescoring: http://scores.golfbox.dk/Shared.aspx?l=http://www.ega-golf.ch/golfbox-result-widget/0&m=t&h=/competition/1667651/teammatchscores

Ladies' Flight A matchplay livescoring: http://scores.golfbox.dk/Shared.aspx?l=http://www.ega-golf.ch/golfbox-result-widget/0&m=t&h=/competition/1667428/teammatchscores