SCOTLAND QUALIFY FIFTH, PLAY


SWEDEN IN EURO SENIORS

Scotland qualified in fifth position and will play fourth seeds Sweden in the first round of the match-play stages at the European senior men's amateur team golf championship at Fairhaven Golf Club, Lancashire.
Scottish senior champion Scott MacDonald (Dunfermline) again had the non-counting score - an 83.
Other scores were: Ian Taylor 77, Jim Watt 79, Tony Stafford 80, Colin Christy 80, David Gardner 81.
Ireland virtually outclassed the opposition to qualify as top seeds.
Their 36-hole, best five from six total of 736 was 10 shots better than No 2 qualifiers England and 42 shots ahead of Scotland.
Ireland will play Switzerland, the last of the eight qualifiers for the championship flight with a total of 799, some 63 shots more than the Irish took, which suggests their match-play meeting will be a one-sided contest.
Ireland's scorers on Day 2 were Garth McGimpsey and Maurice Kelly, each with 73, Arthur Pierse and Adrian Morrow, each with 74, and Michael Quirke 75. For the second day in a row, Ireland were able to discard a 78 (returned by Tom Cleary), a score any of the 17 other countries would have been glad to have.
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT QUALIFIERS
736 Ireland 367 369.
746 England 372 374.
759 Germany 382 377
772 Sweden 378 394.
778 Scotland 381 397
796 Spain 404 392
798 Austria 401 397
799 Switzerland 404 395.
Quarter-finals
Ireland v Switzerland
Scotland v Sweden
Germany v Spain.
England v Austria.




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