1959 European Ladies' Team Championship

The hosting club was founded in 1906 and the championship 18-hole course, situated in Bergisch Gladbach, 10 kilometers east of the city center of Cologne, opened in 1955.^[1] The course set up of par 74 had four par-3-holes, eight par-4-holes and six par-5-holes.

The championship course was set up with par 74.

The shown length on each hole was from the club tee. The women's championship tee was approximately 10 percent shorter and totally 5,475 meters.

All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next two teams formed flight B.

The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 point, lose=0 points. In each match between two nation teams, two foursome games and four single games were played.

Six nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of four players.

Players in some of the teams

Country	Players
France	Claudine Cros, Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, Lally de Saint-Sauveur (playing captain)*, Martine Paul, Brigitte Varangot
Italy	Rosanna Bergamo, Wanda Bohus Rosa, Paula Cobianchi, Isa Goldschmidt Bevione (playing captain), Pinto
Sweden	Gertrud Ahlberg, Marianne Bergengren, Ann-Marie Brynolf (playing captain), Britt Matsson, Margareta Warberg
West Germany	Ilse Groos, Marietta Gütermann, Monika Möller, Monika Steegman, Liselotte Strenger, Inez Stille

* Note: Playing captain Lally de Saint-Sauveur did not play the qualification round and played one single game and two foursome games in flight A.

Other participating teams

Country
Belgium
Netherlands

Individual winner in the opening 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition was Odile Garaialde Semelaigne, France, with a score of 5-under-par 143.

Team France won the championship, earning 6 points in flight A.

Qualification rounds

Team standings Place Country Score To par 1  France 229-218=447 +3 2  Belgium 243-232=475 +31 3  Italy 246-235=481 +37 4  Netherlands 244-241=485 +41 5  West Germany 247-242=489 +45 6  Sweden 259-241=500 +56

Individual leader Place Player Country Score To par 1 Odile Garaialde Semelaigne  France 70-73=143 −5 Note: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual score.

Flight A

Team matches 2  Italy  Belgium 0 4 2 2  France  Netherlands 0 5 1 2  Belgium  Netherlands 0 5 1 2  France  Italy 0 4 2 2  Italy  Netherlands 0 6 0 2  France  Belgium 0 5.5 0.5

Team standings Country Place W T L Game points Points  France 1 2 1 0 14.5–3.5 6  Italy 2 2 0 1 12–6 4  Belgium 3 2 0 1 7.5–10.5 2  Netherlands 4 0 1 2 2–16 0

Flight B

Team match 1  Sweden  West Germany 1 3 3

Team standings Country Place W T L Game points Points  Sweden T5 0 1 0 3–3 1  West Germany T5 0 1 0 3–3 1

Final standings

Place	Country
	France
	Italy
	Belgium
4	Netherlands
T5	Sweden
	West Germany

Sources:^{[3][4][2][5][6]}