Stirlingshire are first Scottish
senior men's team champions

Stirlingshire won the inaugural Scottish senior men’s amateur inter-county team golf championship at Monifieth.
They totalled 378 for a 14-shot victory from Fife with Lothians (397) third in a field of 14 district teams.
In bitterly-cold and windy conditions, 74 was the lowest individual score and Stirlingshire had four players who shot 74 or 75.
The winning team comprised Gordon MacDonald, Henry Anderson, Lindsay Blair, Robert Irvine, David Smith and Billy Erskine.
Fife were represented by Ian Dickson, Alan Elder, Bob Thomson, Jim McArthur, Steve Ellis and Brian Mustard.
Lothians’ players were Camie Stewart, Ian Fraser, Ian Taylor, Graeme Millar, George Blair and John Fraser.
Jim McArthur (Fife), Lindsay Blair (Stirlingshire) and Ron McLellan (Ayrshire) shared the individual honours with 74s.

TEAM TOTALS
378 Stirlingshire.
392 Fife.
397 Lothians.
399 North-east.
400 Perth & Kinross.
404 Ayrshire.
407 Glasgow.
410 Renfrewshire.
411 Dunbartonshire.
414 Angus, South of Scotland.
415 Lanarkshire.
425 Clackmannanshire.
435 Borders.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
74 Jim McArthur (Fife), Lindsay Blair (Stirlingshire), Ron McLellan (Ayrshire).
75 Gordon MacDonald (Stirlingshire), Henry Anderson (Stirlingshire), John Fraser (Lothians), Robert Irvine (Stirlingshire).
77 David Miller (Ayrshire), George Paterson (North-east), Peter Jamieson (Glasgow).
78 Alan Elder (Fife), Derek Murphy (Perth & Kinross), Douglas Martin (Renfrewshire), George Rodaks (South of Scotland).
79 Billy Erskine (Stirlingshire, Charles Gallagher (Perth & Kinross), Colin Christy (Renfrewshire), Ronnie MacLean (Lanarkshire), Sandy Pirie (North-east), Steve Ellis (Fife).