2007 Seve Trophy

2007 Seve Trophy

Dates	27–30 September
Venue	The Heritage Golf & Spa Resort
Location	County Laois, Ireland
Captains	Nick Faldo (GB&I) Seve Ballesteros (Europe)
16½ 11½
Great Britain and Ireland wins the Seve Trophy

The 2007 Seve Trophy took place between 27–30 September at The Heritage Golf & Spa Resort in the Republic of Ireland. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Nick Faldo, with the captain for Continental Europe being Seve Ballesteros. Great Britain and Ireland retained the trophy for the third consecutive time.

Format

The teams competed over four days with five fourball matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14 ½ 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.

Each member of the winner team received €125,000, the losing team €75,000 each, giving a total prize fund of €2,000,000.^[1]

Teams

The teams were made up of four players from the Official World Golf Ranking list, four players from the European points list, and two captain's pick. However, there were a number of players who qualified for the trophy, but pulled out. These include: Henrik Stenson, Pádraig Harrington, Sergio García and Lee Westwood.^[2][3]

Team GB&I
Name	Country	Qualification
Nick Faldo	England	Non-playing captain
Justin Rose	England	World rankings
Paul Casey	England	World rankings
Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	World rankings
Bradley Dredge	Wales	World rankings
Graeme Storm	England	European points
Oliver Wilson	England	European points
Phillip Archer	England	European points
Nick Dougherty	England	European points
Marc Warren	Scotland	Captain's pick
Simon Dyson	England	Captain's pick

Team Continental Europe
Name	Country	Qualification
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	Non-playing captain
Robert Karlsson	Sweden	World rankings
Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	World rankings
Mikko Ilonen	Finland	World rankings
Raphaël Jacquelin	France	World rankings
Søren Hansen	Denmark	European points
Grégory Havret	France	European points
Peter Hanson	Sweden	European points
Markus Brier	Austria	European points
Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	Spain	Captain's pick
Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	Captain's pick

Day one

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Fourball

	Results
Montgomerie/Warren	3 & 1	Hanson/Karlsson
Dredge/Archer	2 & 1	Jiménez/Fdez-Castaño
Casey/Dyson	4 & 3	Jacquelin/Havret
Dougherty/Storm	1 up	Bjørn/Hansen
Rose/Wilson	3 & 2	Brier/Ilonen
2	Session	3
2	Overall	3

Day two

Friday, 28 September 2007

Fourball

	Results
Dredge/Archer	5 & 4	Hanson/Karlsson
Montgomerie/Warren	5 & 3	Jacquelin/Havret
Wilson/Dyson	3 & 2	Bjørn/Hansen
Dougherty/Storm	1 up	Ilonen/Brier
Rose/Casey	1 up	Jiménez/Fdez-Castaño
3	Session	2
5	Overall	5

Day three

Saturday, 29 September 2007

Morning greensomes

	Results
Rose/Casey	3 & 1	Karlsson/Fdez-Castaño
Dougherty/Storm	2 & 1	Jacquelin/Havret
Wilson/Dyson	1 up	Hanson/Hansen
Dredge/Archer	halved	Brier/Ilonen
½	Session	3½
5½	Overall	8½

Afternoon foursomes

	Results
Rose/Dougherty	2 & 1	Jacquelin/Havret
Montgomerie/Storm	3 & 2	Karlsson/Fdez-Castaño
Wilson/Dyson	3 & 2	Hanson/Hansen
Dredge/Archer	2 up	Brier/Jiménez
3	Session	1
8½	Overall	9½

Day four

Sunday, 30 September 2007

Singles

	Results
Colin Montgomerie	1 up	Robert Karlsson
Paul Casey	3 & 2	Raphaël Jacquelin
Marc Warren	1 up	Grégory Havret
Nick Dougherty	halved	Søren Hansen
Graeme Storm	6 & 5	Thomas Bjørn
Simon Dyson	2 & 1	Mikko Ilonen
Phillip Archer	halved	Markus Brier
Bradley Dredge	2 up	Gonzalo Fdez-Castaño
Oliver Wilson	1 up	Peter Hanson
Justin Rose	2 & 1	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
8	Session	2
16½	Overall	11½

References

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site