23rd August 2025

Continent of Europe beat Great Britain & Ireland 15.0-10.0 to win the 48th Jacques Léglise Trophy match at Royal Golf Club of Belgium.

Continent of Europe (Photo: EGA)

This was the Continent’s sixth consecutive win and took their total number of victories up to 18. GB&I are on 29 wins but their overall lead is clearly reducing rapidly.

Lev GRINBERG (UKR) and Hugo LE GOFF (FRA), in 2023-24-25, joined Tim WIEDEMEYER (GER), in 2021-22-23, as three time Jacques Leglise Trophy winners for Continent of Europe.

Europe’s Guus LAFEBER (NED) was the only player on either side to win all four games, continuing his excellent recent run of form.

Having been rested in the opening foursomes series Tom DE HERRYPON (FRA) won the three games that he contested for Europe thereafter.

Whilst there was little for GB&I to celebrate 2025 McEvoy Trophy winner Toby PETERS (ENG) was unbeaten securing one win and three ties. 

The Day 2 Singles series was tied 4.5-4.5.

Following Václav SVUB‘s (CZH) early win in Game 6 it fell to Tom DE HERRYPON (FRA) to secure the all-important third point for Europe in Game 5 which earned their outright win.

Four Foursomes and nine Singles games were played on Day 2.

Saturday PM Singles Scoreboard (Graphic: EGA / Golfbox)

Continent of Europe won the Saturday Foursomes 2.5-1.5 to extend their match lead to five points (10.5-5.5).

Dion REGAN (WAL) & Jack SWIFT (ENG) and Guus LAFEBER (NED) & Edwin SJODIN (SWE) both made it two wins out of two in the Foursomes.

Saturday AM Foursomes Scoreboard (Graphic: EGA / Golfbox)

Click here to view the – 2025 Jacques Léglise Trophy Results

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22nd August 2025

A strong afternoon Singles performance enabled Continent of Europe to take control of the 48th Jacques Léglise Trophy match.

They won the Singles 6.5-1.5 and will now head into the final day with an 8.0-4.0 advantage over Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I).

GB&I had enjoyed a positive start to the contest taking the opening Foursomes series 2.5-1.5 but were unfortunately out played in the Singles at Royal Golf Club of Belgium.

The recently crowned Boys’ Amateur champion Guus LAFEBER (NED), for Europe, and Oli BLACKADDER (SCO), for GB&I, were the only players to deliver two wins out of two for their respective teams on Day 1.

It will now take a great Day 2 performance from GB&I to deny Continent of Europe a sixth consecutive win.

Friday PM Singles

Friday PM Singles Scoreboard (Graphic: EGA / Golfbox)

Friday AM Foursomes 

Friday AM Foursomes Scoreboard (Graphic: EGA / Golfbox)

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20th August 2025

The 48th Jacques Léglise Trophy match between Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) and Continent of Europe will take place at Royal Golf Club de Belgique in Belgium on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd August. 

This annual match is contested by two nine-player under 18 boys’ teams. It is essentially a junior equivalent of the biennial men’s St. Andrews Trophy match also played between these two regions.

Having been dominated in the early years by GB&I the Continent of Europe have now won seven of the last eight matches played since 2016.

Following consecutive wins at Aldeburgh G.C., England (2019), Falsterbo G.C., Sweden (2021), Blairgowrie G.C., Scotland (2022), Golf de Chantilly, France (2023) and West Lancashire, England (2024) Europe will start as strong favourites to make it six wins-in-a-row. The 2020 match, which was due to be played at Blairgowrie, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teams

The R&A have selected the following players to represent GB&I (WAGR’s at 20th August): –

Oli BLACKADDER 17 – Deeside, Scotland (WAGR #1,576)
Ben BOLTON 18 – Enville, England (WAGR #379)
Harry COX 18 – Welwyn Garden City, England (WAGR #1,590)
John DOYLE 18 – Fota Island, Ireland (WAGR #437)
Oscar LENT 18 – Walton Heath, England (WAGR #1,465)
Samuel MARSHALL 18 – St Neots, England (WAGR #2,040)
Toby PETERS 18 – Thorpe Hall, England (WAGR #1,554)
Dion REGAN 17 – Cilgwyn, Wales (WAGR #1,262)
Jack SWIFT 17 – North Foreland, England (WAGR #689)

Ben Bolton, Oscar Lent and Dion Regan all played for GB&I last year at West Lancashire.

Wales’ Chris KING, Chairman of The R&A’s GB&I Boys’ Selection Committee & Captain, will take charge of the team for the fifth time.

The GB&I Team (Photo: The R&A)

The 2025 Continent of Europe team, selected by the European Golf Association, consists of: –

Callixte ALZAS – France (WAGR #453)
Giovanni BINAGHI – Italy (WAGR #668)
Tom DE HERRYPON – France (WAGR #938)
Lev GRINBERG – Ukraine (WAGR #99)
Guus LAFEBER – Netherlands (WAGR #309)
Hugo LE GOFF – France (WAGR #57)
Štěpán PLÁŠEK – Czech Republic (WAGR #324)
Edwin SJÖDIN – Sweden (WAGR #1,009)
Václav ŠVUB – Czech Republic (WAGR #1,043)

Giovanni Binaghi, Lev Grinberg and Hugo Le Goff all return for the Europeans having played last year.

Europe will be led for the second time by Non-Playing Captain Pierre RELECOM of Belgium. During his career Relecom won all of Belgium’s national amateur championships; U14, U16, U18, U21, Men’s, Foursomes and Inter-Club. The Belgian played professionally for nine years, with a Challenge Tour victory and multiple European Tour seasons on his golfing CV before regaining his amateur status in 2019.

Format

The Jacques Léglise Trophy match is played over two days.

Belgium (CET) are an hour ahead of GB&I (BST).

Four foursomes games are played each morning.

Singles are then played in the afternoon; eight on Day 1 and nine on Day 2.

As there will be 25.0 points to play for each team will require 13.0 points to claim an outright victory.

Venue

This year’s match is being played on the Old or Arboretum Course at Royal Golf Club de Belgique, also known as ‘Ravenstein’, in Tervuren on the eastern outskirts of Brussels.

The club was founded in 1906 by King Leopold II. Believed to be originally designed by Seymour Dunn it was redesigned by Tom Simpson in 1928. Martin Hawtree advised the club on a 10-year improvement plan in 1990.

It is a strategic course playing to just 6,677 yards / 6,105 metres and a par of 73. It has a Course Rating of 68.9 and a Slope of 121. The holes meander over undulating tree lined ground with numerous doglegs adding to the challenge.

This will be the first time that Belgium has hosted the Jacques Léglise Trophy match.

The Jacques Léglise Trophy (Photo: European Golf Association) 

Weather

The forecast suggests the weather will be largely dry with only light breezes expected.

Friday 22nd August – Sunny Intervals / Wind 8 mph NW / Temp. Min. 10°C, Max. 20°C.
Saturday 23rd August – Cloudy / Wind 6 mph NW / Temp. Min. 9°C, Max. 20°C.

The 2024 Jacques Léglise Trophy Match

Continent of Europe won the 47th Jacques Léglise Trophy match against Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) by 12.0 points to 10.0 at West Lancashire G.C. in England.

Continent of Europe (Photo: The R&A)

Viggo OLSSON MÖRK (EUR) was Europe’s star performer winning all three of his games. Neo BERG (SWE), Nils-LEVI BOCK (GER) and Hugo LE GOFF (FRA) were also unbeaten for the victors.

Henry STYLES (ENG) won both of his Singles for GB&I.

Click here to view the – 2024 Jacques Léglise Trophy Results

Previous Matches

An international junior match was first played between 1958 and 1966 with GB&I winning all nine of them.

After a break it was re-instated to the amateur calendar in 1977 as the Jacques Léglise Trophy. Jean-Louis Dupont donated the new trophy in memory of Jacques Léglise, a former President of both the French Golf Association and the European Golf Association. Léglise was also a past French amateur champion and national team captain.

Since becoming the Jacques Léglise Trophy GB&I have won 29 of the matches with the Continent of Europe claiming 17 victories with the 2015 match tied. Twelve of Europe’s wins have been in away matches.

Originally played in a single day the match moved to two in 1996.

Click here to view all of the – Jaques Léglise Trophy Historic Results

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