David Law leads Scots

boys' Euro challenge

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Scottish boys champion David Law from Hazlehead will lead Scotland’s challenge at next month’s European boys' team championship at the Utrecht Golf Club de Pan in Holland from July 7 to 11.

Aberdonian Law, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, will be joined in the six-strong team by the Paul Shields, runner-up to him in the Scottish boys' final at Royal Aberdeen, as well as Ayrshire’s rising starlet Jack McDonald, who has enjoyed two recent wins on the SGU Junior Tour including an impressive five-shot victory at his home course of Kilmarnock (Barassie).
Inchmarlo’s Chris Robb, currently lying second in the SGU Junior Order of Merit this season, also receives a call-up while another recent Junior Tour winner, Daniel Young from Craigiehill, makes his European team debut.

Buckinghamshire-based Anglo Scot Sandy Bolton (Magnolia Park) completes the line-up.
The six youngsters will be hoping that history repeats itself in Holland, the country where Scotland last triumphed in the event back in 2000 with a team that included current US PGA Tour player Martin Laird and former Walker Cup player David Inglis.
National Junior Coach Spencer Henderson commented: “Scotland has a good record in this Championship and I’m sure the team we have this year will be up there challenging Europe’s best once again. There is strength in depth throughout the line-up with some good experience added in.”
Meanwhile, 16-year-old duo Callum Stewart (Brora) and Grant Forrest (Craigielaw) have been selected to represent Scotland at the European Young Masters in France which also takes place next month.

One handicapper Stewart has enjoyed a first and third place in the Junior Tour this season, whilst Forrest, another product of the Craigielaw junior conveyor belt, has impressed with a series of consistent finishes.
They will be joined by Minto’s Lesley Atkins, the reigning Scottish Under-14 girls’ champion and Ailsa Summers from Carnoustie Ladies, who recently won the Angus women's county championship.

The two teams are as follows:

European Amateur Boys Team Championship, Utrechtse Golf Club de Pan, Holland, July 7 to 11

David Law (Hazlehead)
Paul Shields (Kirkhill)
Chris Robb (Inchmarlo)
Daniel Young (Craigiehill)
Sandy Bolton (Magnolia Park)
Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie)

European Young Masters, Guyancourt, France, July 23 to 25.

Grant Forrest (Craigielaw)
Calum Stewart (Brora)
Lesley Atkins (Minto)
Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies’)