SGU-SLGA name Bookless,

Shields, Kenney and Walker

for Texas trip

The combined Scottish Golf Union-Scottish Ladies Golf Association team to represent Scotland in The Spirit amateur international golf championship at Whispering Pines Golf Club, Texas, from November 4 to 7 is:

Mark Bookless (Sandyhills)
Louise Kenney (Pitreavie)
Paul Shields (Kirkhill)
Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle)

Mark Bookless won the Scottish boys' open stroke-play title last year and recently won the Newlands Trophy 72-hole SGU Order of Merit tournament.
Paul Shields, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, has reached the final of the Scottish boys' match-play championship for the past two years.
Kylie Walker and Louise Kenney, two of the Scotland team who finished runners-up to Wales in the recent Women's Home Internationals, were both named last week in the Ladies Golf Union's GB&I squad for the 2010 Curtis Cup match against the United States at Essex County Club in Massachusetts in June.
Kylie, winner of the St Rule Trophy for the past two years, finished second in this year's European women's amateur championship.
Louise Kenney, winner of the Angela Uzielli Trophy for a fourth place finish in the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Balgownie in August, is the current leader of the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association Order of Merit.
Kylie, 23, is a full-time amateur golfer. Louise, 26, is a supply teacher.
The Spirit tournament, held every two years, will have a field of 20 countries.