New-look Scotland senior team bids

for Euro title

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Recently-crowned Scottish Seniors Open Amateur Champion Scott Macdonald from Dunfermline will lead a new-look Scotland side which crosses the border next week in pursuit of the European senior amateur team championship at Fairhaven, Lancashire next week (August 31 to September 4 ).
Former Walker Cup man Macdonald, pictured above by Andy Forman, who won the national seniors title at Pollok in July 41 years after winning the Scottish Stroke Play Championship at Carnoustie, currently tops the Seniors Order of Merit after three top ten finishes on the circuit this season.
He is joined by Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil), this season’s national seniors’ match play champion and Broomieknowe’s David Gardner, winner of two events on the seniors’ circuit in 2010.
Edzell’s Jim Watt, the South of Scotland Seniors Open Champion, gets a well earned call-up to national duty while Kilmalcolm’s Colin Christy and Ian Taylor (Royal Burgess), bronze medallists behind Macdonald at Pollok, make up the six-strong team.
This year will be the fifth staging of the European Senior Amateur Team Championship, with Scotland winning the inaugural event in Finland back in 2006, before twice finishing runner-up in 2007 and 2008. England will be defending the trophy they won last year in Switzerland, where they defeated Sweden in the final.
Two rounds of stroke play qualifying on Tuesday and Wednesday will be followed by three days of knock-out match play with the final taking place on Saturday 4 September.
The Scottish Golf Union will then host the Men’s Senior Home Internationals at Crail later in September (14 – 16), with the same six being included in the line-up with the addition of Cowglen’s John McDonald, winner of last weekend’s North of Scotland Senior Open Championship.
Former Scottish Seniors Champion Gordon MacDonald is non-playing team captain for both events.
European Men’s Senior Amateur Team Championship Team:
Scott MacDonald (Dunfermline)
Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil)
David Gardner (Broomieknowe)
Ian Taylor (Royal Burgess)
Colin Christy (Kilmacolm)
Jim Watt (Edzell)

Men’s Senior Home International Team:
Scott MacDonald (Dunfermline)
Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil)
David Gardner (Broomieknowe)
Ian Taylor (Royal Burgess)
Colin Christy (Kilmacolm)
Jim Watt (Edzell)
John MacDonald (Cowglen)





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