.Julia López, Carla Bernat, Cayetana Fernández, and Carla Tejedo are the four players who already know what it's like to win this tournament. Paula Martín and Andrea Revuelta complete a sextet of absolute guarantees.

The golden age of Spanish golf deserves a home celebration like the one that will take place from July 9 to 13 at the Real Sociedad Hípica Española Club de Campo (Madrid) on the occasion of the 2024 European Women's Team Championship, an event in which the hosts defend the title obtained last year in Finland.

The RSHECC North Course, a club that has hosted top-level professional tournaments such as the Madrid Open 2007 or the Madrid Masters Golf 2010, welcomes nineteen teams, including the most decorated since the tournament's creation in 1959: England (12 titles), Sweden (11) and France (8).

Spain, with six titles in its trophy cabinet, will seek the always difficult challenge of repeating the title, and even more so at home, with four of the golfers who dominated last year: Julia López from Malaga, Carla Bernat and Carla Tejedo from Castellón, and Cayetana Fernández from Madrid, all of them enrolled in their respective university teams in the United States.

There are many reasons for hope: we have the current European Absolute Champion, Julia López; Carla Bernat, who completed a memorable role in the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur; Cayetana Fernández, who has made a remarkable debut in America; and Carla Tejedo, who showed her full potential in the US University League Final.

It was precisely within this context that one of the team's new faces, Paula Martín, shone, bringing freshness and quality alongside Andrea Revuelta, her teammate in a few months at Stanford University and current Spanish National Champion and winner of the Copa de SM La Reina. The two Madrid golfers also boast winning experience, having been European Under-18 Team Champions in 2021.

Nineteen teams seek glory

Apart from the hosts, the teams from England, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Scotland, Italy, Iceland, Slovakia, Wales, Belgium, Slovenia and the Netherlands also take part in the competition.

Spain, the reigning European Women's Champion, is one of the tournament's leading contenders, having won it six times (1995, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, and 2023). Indeed, their record in recent years has been more than positive: a gold medal in 2023; silver medals in 2010, 2011, 2016, and 2019; bronze medals in 2008, 2015, and 2022; and fourth place in 2009 and 2017.

On an individual level, it's worth mentioning the presence of strong players with good positions in the World Ranking, a category headed by Germany's Helen Briem, number 2 in the rankings, who has won three consecutive professional events on the LET Access Series circuit in recent weeks. Julia López (3), Paula Martín (12), Andrea Revuelta (13), and Cayetana Fernández (20) are also part of this select group.

Competition system

The competition format includes two days of stroke play, which establish a ranking before the various knockout rounds for the title. It is essential to finish in one of the top eight positions in the preliminary round to be eligible for the title.

This tournament, whose first edition took place in 1959, was held biennially until 2007, when the European Golf Association (EGA) decided that the tournament would be annual until 2011 – with the exception of 2012, which was not held –, returning to its annual status from 2013.
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