England are new European men's amateur team champions

England succeeded Scotland as European men's amateur team champions at Osterakers Golf Club, Sweden.
They beat Sweden 4.5 to 2.5 in today's final after losing both the morning foursomes.
The English team put in a brilliant singles performance to win four and halve the remaining tie and pull the fat out of the fire.
The inspiration came from Tommy Fleetwood who beat Jesper Kennegard, a team-mate of James Byrne at Arizona State University, by 2 and 1 in the top singles tie.
Then British boys champion of 2009, Tom Lewis, won a tight one on the 18th green against Nils Floren.
Laurie Canter won comfortably, 6 and 4, against Pontus Widegren and Eddie Peppe4rell was a 4 and 3 winner over David Lingmerth.
Chris Paisley and Henrik Norlander halved their match but whether they played the full 18 holes or stopped because England had a winning lead in the match, is not clear at the time of writing.
Scotland, who failed to qualify for the top grade on their title defence, finished on a low note with "only" 10th ranking.
With James Byrne and Ross Kellett losing the top two singles, Scotland were well beaten, 4-1, by France in the ninth place play-off.
In the European boys' team championship at Klassis Golf Club, Istanbul in Turkey, the Scots finished on a high note with a 4.5 to 0.5 win over Portugal. That earned them a final ranking of 11th in Europe.

MEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

FINAL
ENGLAND 4.5, SWEDEN 2.5
Foursomes (0-2)
E Pepperell and B Hemstock lost to P Widegren and H Norlander 3 and 2.
T Fleetwood and T Lewis lost to D Lingmerth and N Floren 2 and 1.
Singles (4.5-0.5)
Fleetwood bt J Kennegard 2 and 1.
Lewis bt Floren 1 hole.
L Canter bt Widegren 6 and 4.
Pepperell bt Lingmerth 4 and 3.
Chris Paisley halved with Norlander.

Play-off for third place
ITALY 5, SPAIN 2

Also:
DENMARK 3, FINLAND 2.
GERMANY 4, WALES 1

FLIGHT B
 FRANCE 4, SCOTLAND 1
Foursome (1-0)
V Dubuisson and J Lopez-Lazaro bt P McLean and K Nicol 1 hole.
Singles (3-1)
R Wattel bt J Byrne 5 and 3.
C Berardo bt R Kellett 3 and 1.
J Lando-Casanova lost to M Stewart 4 and 3.
A Levy bt G Paterson 4 and 3.

Also:
NETHERLANDS 4, PORTUGAL 1.
IRELAND 1.5, NORWAY 3.5
BELGIUM 4, SWITZERLAND 1.

FLIGHT C
POLAND 4, SLOVAKIA 1
AUSTRIA 3, ICELAND 2.

EUROPEAN BOYS' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Klassic Golf Club, Istanbul, Turkey
FINAL
BELGIUM 4, NORWAY 3
Play-off for third place
DENMARK 5, ITALY 2

Also:
AUSTRIA 3, FRANCE 2
ENGLAND 2, NETHERLANDS 3
Foursome (0-1)
P Lockwood and J Burnett lost to R Van West and M Albertus at 22nd.
Singles (2-2)
C Lloyd lost to A Geers 1 hole.
G Eason lost to R Haije 5 and 4.
L Harper bt L Van Meijel 1 hole.
N Newbold bt R Caron 3 and 2.

FLIGHT B
 SPAIN 3.5, IRELAND 1.5
SCOTLAND 4.5 PORTUGAL 0.5
Foursome (1-0)
P McPhee and L Johnston bt J Magalhaes and R Gaspar 3 and 1.
Singles (3.5-0.5)
S Gibson bt Malagueira 2 and 1.
S Fairburn halved with G Pinto.
J McDonald bt T Silva 4 and 3.
G Forrest bt A Abreu 9 and 7.

GERMANY 3.5, CZECH REP 1.5
FINLAND 3, SWITZERLAND 2.

FLIGHT C
WALES 3.5, TURKEY 1.5.
SLOVENIA 1, SWEDEN 4