The club was founded in 1930. Its first 18-hole course was constructed by Rafael Sundblom and approved in 1938. Another nine holes, constructed by Nils Sköld, was inaugurated in 1967. Together with the last nine holes of the old course, this formed the new course, called the North Course.[2][3]
Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.[4]
The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team was drawn to play the quarter-final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Teams knocked out after the quarter-finals played one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.
The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.
Teams
16 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.
Leader of the opening 36-hole competition was team Germany with an 11-under-par score of 709, five strokes ahead of team Ireland and a combined team from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Host nation Sweden made it to the quarter-finals with a one-stroke-margin on eighth place.
Team Scotland won the gold medal, earning their seventh title, beating team Denmark in the final 41⁄2–21⁄2. The last time the championship took place at Halmstad Golf Club, in 1985, Scotland also was the champions, winning their second title in the history of the event.
Host nation Sweden earned the bronze on third place, after beating eleven-times-champion England 4–3 in the bronze match.
^Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 100. ISBN9172603283. Retrieved 21 March 2021.