2011 Vivendi Seve Trophy
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The 2011 Vivendi Seve Trophy, formerly known as the Seve Trophy
, was played 15-18 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
in France
. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley
, with the captain for Continental Europe being Jean van de Velde. Great Britain and Ireland won the Trophy for the sixth consecutive time.
& 
Great Britain and Ireland 15½ – 12½ Continental Europe 
matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles matches
on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14½ points required for victory. If the score finished at 14-14, then two players from each team would play the 18th using the greensomes format to find the winner.
Seve Trophy
The Seve Trophy is a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional male golfers representing Great Britain & Ireland and Continental Europe. It is named after five times major winner Seve Ballesteros, the most successful golfer ever from Continental Europe who was one of the key...
, was played 15-18 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.-History:Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche was built around 4 core hamlets near the Forest of Marly...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup. He currently resides in Sunningdale, England....
, with the captain for Continental Europe being Jean van de Velde. Great Britain and Ireland won the Trophy for the sixth consecutive time.
& Great Britain and Ireland 15½ – 12½ Continental Europe Format
The teams competed over four days with five fourballFourball
A Fourball match is a type of golf match used in match play competitions.A fourball match consists of two teams of two players competing directly against each other. All four golfers play their own ball throughout the round, and each hole is won by the team whose member has the lowest score...
matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles matches
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14½ points required for victory. If the score finished at 14-14, then two players from each team would play the 18th using the greensomes format to find the winner.
Teams
The teams were made up of five players from the World Rankings list and five players from the European points list. There were a number of players who qualified for the trophy, but did not play.  |
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| Name | Country | Qualification | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul McGinley Paul McGinley Paul McGinley is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup. He currently resides in Sunningdale, England.... |
Non-playing captain | ||||
| Lee Westwood Lee Westwood Lee John Westwood OBE is an English professional golfer. Noted for his consistency, Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He was named player of the year for the 1998, 2000, and 2009 seasons... |
World Rankings | ||||
| Ian Poulter Ian Poulter Ian James Poulter is an English professional golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been as high as number five in the world rankings... |
World Rankings | ||||
| Darren Clarke Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the... |
World Rankings | ||||
| Simon Dyson Simon Dyson Simon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:... |
World Rankings | ||||
| Ross Fisher Ross Fisher Ross Daniel Fisher is an English professional golfer, who plays on the European Tour.Fisher was born in Ascot, Berkshire. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey, England, location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended Charters School, a state... |
World Rankings | ||||
| Mark Foster Mark Foster (golfer) Mark B. Foster is an English professional golfer.Foster was born in Worksop. He won the English Amateur twice before turning professional in 1995. For the first few years as a professional he was troubled by back problems, but in 2001 he won twice on the Challenge Tour and topped the money list... |
European Points | ||||
| Robert Rock Robert Rock Robert Rock is an English professional golfer. He was born in Armitage, near Lichfield in Staffordshire. He joined the European Tour as an affiliate member in 2003 and has remained a member ever since.... |
European Points | ||||
| Jamie Donaldson Jamie Donaldson Jamie Ross Donaldson is a Welsh professional golfer.Donaldson was born in Pontypridd. He turned professional in 2000. Having failed to come through the European Tour's qualifying school, in 2001 he played predominantly on the second tier Challenge Tour... |
European Points | ||||
| David Horsey David Horsey (golfer) David Horsey is an English professional golfer.Horsey was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. He had a successful amateur career, which included winning the 2005 Greek Amateur Championship and finishing as runner-up in the 2004 English Amateur... |
European Points | ||||
| Scott Jamieson Scott Jamieson (golfer) Scott Jamieson is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.-Amateur career:Jamieson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He spent four years playing amateur golf on a scholarship at Augusta State University in the U.S... |
European Points | ||||
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| Name | Country | Qualification | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean van de Velde | Non-playing captain | |||
| Francesco Molinari Francesco Molinari Francesco Molinari is an Italian professional golfer. He is a two-time winner on the European Tour and was a member of the 2010 European Ryder Cup team.-Background and amateur career:... |
World Rankings | |||
| Anders Hansen Anders Hansen Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995... |
World Rankings | |||
| Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team... |
World Rankings | |||
| Matteo Manassero Matteo Manassero Matteo Manassero is an Italian professional golfer. He is the youngest golfer to win a European Tour event.Manassero was born in Negrar, in the Province of Verona. In 2009, at the age of 16, he became the youngest ever winner of the British Amateur Championship, defeating England's Sam Hutsby in... |
World Rankings | |||
| Raphaël Jacquelin Raphaël Jacquelin Raphaël Jacquelin is a French professional golfer.Jacquelin was born in Lyon. He turned professional in 1995, after winning the French Amateur Championship.Jacquelin began his professional career on the Challenge Tour... |
World Rankings | |||
| Alexander Norén Alexander Norén Alexander Norén is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.Norén was born in Stockholm. He attended Oklahoma State University in the United States before turning professional in 2005.... |
European Points | |||
| Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish... |
European Points | |||
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez Miguel Angel Jiménez Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:... |
European Points | |||
| Nicolas Colsaerts Nicolas Colsaerts Nicolas Colsaerts is a Belgian professional golfer.Colsaerts was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. He turned professional in 2000, the day of his 18th birthday and went on to gain his European Tour card... |
European Points | |||
| Peter Hanson Peter Hanson Peter Hanson is a Swedish professional golfer.Hanson was born in Svedala, Sweden. He turned professional in 1998 and has played on the Challenge Tour and the European Tour. His professional wins include the 1998 Gunther Hamburg Classics on the Challenge Tour and the 2005 Open de España on the... |
European Points | |||
Thursday's fourballs
| & |
Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Donaldson/Dyson |   2 and 1 |
Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| Fisher/Jamieson | 6 and 4 |
Hanson/Jacquelin |
| Foster/Westwood |  1 up |
Hansen/Molinari |
| Clarke/Horsey | 1 up |
Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Poulter/Rock | 5 and 3 |
Bjørn/Norén |
| 4 | Fourball | 1 |
| 4 | Overall | 1 |
Friday's fourballs
| & |
Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Donaldson/Dyson | Halved | Bjørn/Jacquelin |
| Poulter/Rock | 5 and 3 |
Hanson/Norén |
| Fisher/Jamieson | 2 up |
Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Foster/Westwood | 5 and 3 |
Hansen/Molinari |
| Clarke/Horsey | 3 and 2 |
Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| 1½ | Fourball | 3½ |
| 5½ | Overall | 4½ |
Saturday's greensomes
| & |
Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Donaldson/Dyson | 2 and 1 |
Colsaerts/Manassero |
| Clarke/Horsey | Halved | Hanson/Norén |
| Fisher/Poulter | 2 and 1 |
Bjørn/Jacquelin |
| Jamieson/Westwood | 4 and 3 |
Jiménez/Larrazábal |
| 3½ | Greensomes | ½ |
| 9 | Overall | 5 |
Saturday's foursomes
| & |
Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Donaldson/Rock | Halved | Manassero/Molinari |
| Fisher/Foster | 3 and 2 |
Bjørn/Hansen |
| Dyson/Poulter | 3 and 1 |
Larrazábal/Norén |
| Horsey/Westwood | 4 and 3 |
Colsaerts/Jacquelin |
| 2½ | Foursomes | 1½ |
| 11½ | Overall | 6½ |
Sunday's singles
| & |
Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Westwood | 2 and 1 |
Thomas Bjørn |
| Simon Dyson | 1 up |
Anders Hansen |
| Jamie Donaldson | 4 and 3 |
Francesco Molinari |
| Robert Rock | 4 and 3 |
Alexander Norén |
| Darren Clarke | 4 and 2 |
Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| David Horsey | Halved | Nicolas Colsaerts |
| Scott Jamieson | 1 up |
Pablo Larrazábal |
| Ian Poulter | 1 up |
Matteo Manassero |
| Mark Foster | 1 up |
Raphaël Jacquelin |
| Ross Fisher | Halved | Peter Hanson |
| 4 | Singles | 6 |
| 15½ | Overall | 12½ |
External links
| 2009 Seve Trophy 2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros The 2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, formally known as the Seve Trophy, was played 24-27 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in France. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley, with the captain for Continental Europe being Thomas Bjørn... GB&I 16½ Cont Europe 11½ |
2011 Seve Trophy GB&I 15½ Cont Europe 12½ |
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