Welsh winners (left to right) Jason Powell, James Lee and Andrew Barnett at Roda.

Scotland a disappointing ninth of 24 as Wales

win PGAs of Europe team championship

Scotland's Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs), Colin Gillies (Playsport) and Mark King (Kingsfield) finished ninth in a field of 24 countries at the PGAs of Europe international team golf championship won by Wales at Roda Golf Club, Murcia in south-east Spain.
Gillies was the Scots' lowest scorer with rounds of 75, 69, 72 and 69 for three-under-par 285.
Arnott had rounds of 72, 72, 71 and 73 for 288.
The tournament was run on a best two individual scores from three to count daily for a team's total.
King did not have a single counting round as he scored 80, 77, 75 and 82 for a total of 26-over-par 314.
Wales, represented by Jason Powell (278), Andrew Barnett (284) and James Lee (287), had a winning team total of 16-under-par 560.
They won by three shots from England's Paul Simpson (283), Paul Wesselingh (290) and Jeremy Robinson (291) and Switzerland who shared second place on 563.
Ireland's John Kelly (277), Peter Martin (289) and David Ryan (291) tied for fourth place with France on 464.
Ireland were the defending champions. They found form too late - their 136 team total on the last day was the best by any country in the fourth round and was five shots better than any of their earlier totals.

Leading totals
(par 576: 8x72)
560 Wales 143 138 140 139 .
563 England 137 142 142 142, Switzerland 150 136 137 140.
564 Ireland 143 144 141 136, France 146 139 137 142.
566 Italy 147 144 133 142
572 Finland 144 142 142 144, Holland 145 140 143 144.
573 Scotland 147 141 143 142.
575 Sweden 148 143 142 142, Belgium 143 145 144 143
576 Austria 147 140 144 145
577 United Arab Emirates 143 146 144 144.
579 Spain 150 142 144 143
583 Denmark 149 146 147 141.
594 Czech Republic 153 145 147 149.
596 Poland 153 150 150 143, Norway 155 150 143 148, Germany 153 147 148 148.
599 South Africa 152 147 151 149.
609 Croatia 148 152 150 159.
615 Luxemburg 155 158 147 155.
634 Slovakia 158 157 160 159

HOW THE HOME COUNTRIES SCORED
Par 288 (4x72)
*Best two from three individual scores daily counted for team total.
WALES
278 Jason Powell 72 68 69 69.
284 Andrew Barnett 73 70 71 70.
287 James Lee 71 71 71 74.
ENGLAND
283 Paul Simpson 66 71 71 75.
290 Paul Wesselingh 71 76 74 69.
291 Jeremy Robinson 76 71 71 73.
IRELAND
277 John Kelly 70 70 69 68.
289 Peter Martin 73 76 72 68.
292 David Ryan 77 74 73 68.
SCOTLAND
285 Colin Gillies 75 69 72 69.
288 Robert Arnott 72 72 71 73
314 Mark King 80 77 75 82.