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The winning teams from the history of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship


By Camilla Tait

With the Pro-Am commencing in 2001, there have been 25 winners of the Team Competition in the current format of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Here, we take a look back at all the previous winners.


Brett Rumford and Chris Peacock were the first pair to win the Team Championship, while Thorbjorn Olesen and Dermot Desmond were crowned champions in last year's contest with a record-breaking total of 48-under-par.

Desmond is one of three repeat winners, having previously won the title alongside Robert Karlsson in 2010. JP McManus also won the Team event on two occasions, both alongside Padraig Harrington, in 2002 and 2006. His son Kieran McManus is the only player amateur or professional to have won three separate times, with Soren Hansen in 2009, Peter Lawrie in 2014, and Jamie Donaldson in 2017.

Continuing the remarkable run of family success at the Home of Golf, there have been two sets of family members to win together. In 2003 Sam Torrance and his son Daniel became the first and only father-and-son duo to win, and twenty years later it was Matt Fitzpatrick and his mum Sue who claimed the Team title together in 2023 as first mother-and-son partnership to achieve success.

This year, it was Harrison Crowe and Cian Foley who tasted success on 33-under-par, completing their third round at Kingsbarns after the event was reduced to 54-holes.


Year

Professional

Amateur

Score

2001

Brett Rumford

Chris Peacock

-37

2002

Padraig Harrington

JP McManus

-37

2003

Sam Torrance

Daniel Torrance

-37

2004

Fred Couples

Craig Heatley

-37

2005

Henrik Stenson

Rurik Gobel

-29

2006

Padraig Harrington

JP McManus

-35

2007

Scott Strange

Robert Coe

-38

2008

John Bickerton

Bruce Watson

-27

2009

Soren Hansen

Kieran McManus

-44

2010

Robert Karlsson

Dermot Desmond

-30

2011

Nick Dougherty

Chris Evans

-40

2012

Alex Noren

Ernesto Bertarelli

-36

2013

Thomas Levet

David Sayer

-40

2014

Peter Lawrie

Kieran McManus

-37

2015

Floran Frtisch

Michael Ballack

-40

2016

Danny Willett

Jonathan Smart

-38

2017

Jamie Donaldson

Kieran McManus

-40

2018

Haotong Li

Allen Zhang

-35

2019

Tommy Fleetwood

Odgen Phipps II

-39

2021

Michael Hoey

Maeve Danaher

-36

2022

Callum Shinkwin

Alex Acquavella

-37

2023

Matt Fitzpatrick

Sue Fitzpatrick

-35

2024

Thorbjorn Olesen

Dermot Desmond

-48

2025

Harrison Crowe

Cian Foley

-33