Wallace Booth gets that "one good round" he's been waiting for ... and it clinches place in top eight for Scotland at Conwy (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency).

Ireland fail to qualify for championship flight

but Wallace Booth pulls Scotland through

Big shock of the European men's amateur team championship so far at Conway, North Wales is the failure of Ireland - bidding to win the title three years in a row - to qualify for the championship flight.

They finished 11th and that means they cannot now win the title. They will be competing in Flight B.

But Scotland can win the championship. They qualified in sixth place and play Sweden in their opening match. Sweden are the third seeds behind Norway and Italy.

Wallace Booth was the man who lifted the Scots up by their bootlaces with a great round of 66 to be the top Scot in the stroke-play stage with a six-under-par total of 138.

The Comrie man has been frustratingly on the edge of producing a good score for weeks - way back to the Scottish stroke-play at Murcar Links where he told us that he felt he needed and would get one good score that would put his season on the rails.

Well, Wallace could not have got his "one good score" in a better place than Conwy where the whole Scotland team benefited from it.

QUALIFIERS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT

690 (-30) NORWAY.
693 (-27) ITALY.

697 (-23) SWEDEN.

700 (-20) ENGLAND.

707 (-13) FRANCE.

716 (-4) SCOTLAND.

716 (-4) GERMANY.

718 (-2) FINLAND

Match-play draw

1 Norway v 8 Finland.

4 England v 5 France.

6 Scotland v Sweden 3.

7 Germany v Italy 2.

INDIVIDUAL SCORING

134 (-10) Pontus Widegren (Ger) 67 67.

134 (-10) Matteo Manassero (Italy) 66 68.

135 (-9) Andrea Pavan (Italy) 67 68.

136 (-8) Matt Haines (England) 67 69.

SCOTLAND SCORES

138 (-6) Wallace Booth 72 66 (jt 9th).

143 (-1) Michael Stewart 70 73 (jt 34th).

144 (level) Gavin Dear 69 75 (jt 41st).

146 (+2) Michael Campbell 73 73 (jt 50th).

146 (+2) Paul O'Hara 72 74 (jt 50th).

148 (+4) Ross Kellett 72 76 (jt 71st).

FLIGHT B

10 Wales, 11 Ireland, 12 Denmark, 13 Belgium, 14 Portugal, 15 Iceland, 16 Spain.

FLIGHT C

17 Austria, 18 Czech Republic, 19 Green, 20 Turkey.