Senior Men's Home Internationals at Machynys, South Wales

Scotland go down 5-4 to Wales after leading

 3-0 from the foursomes

It cannot get much worse for European senior men's amateur team champions Scotland.
After the 7-2 defeat by England on Day of the Senior Men's Home Internatonals at Machynys Peninsula, South Wales, the Scots looked to be back in form when they led Wales 3-0 after the morning foursomes today.
But it was pride before another big fall. Wales won five of the six singles (Downfield's Graham Bell was the only Scottish winner) and took the match 5-4 to set themselves up for a title decider with England who beat Ireland 6-3.
 Scotland and Ireland will play each other in the "wooden spoon" match.
Day 2 results:

WALES 5, SCOTLAND 4
FOURSOMES (0-3)
N Evans and N Grimmitt lost to R Clark and G Bell 4 and 2.
C Jones and G Rees lost to J Fraser and I Brotherston 5 and 4.
A Williams and P Bloomfield lost to M Reid and D Gardner 1 hole.

SINGLES (5-1)
Evans bt Clark 3 and 2.
Rees lost to Bell 3 and 2.
Grimmitt bt Fraser 4 and 3.
Bloomfield bt Brotherston 3 and 2.
M Gwyther bt D Shields 1 hole.
Williams bt Reid1 hole.

ENGLAND 6, IRELAND 3
FOURSOMES (2-1) 
S East and R Latham bt A Egan and L Halpin 4 and 3.
A Mew and D Niven lost to J Mitchell and M Quirke 5 and 4
I  Crowther and D Nelson bt B O'Leary and B Conlon 3 and 2.

SINGLES (5-1)
Niven lost to Mitchell 1 hole.
East bt O'Leary 5 and 4.
Latham lost to Kelly 3 and 2.
Mew bt Halpin 6 and 5.
Stones bt Egan 5 and 4
Crowther bt Quirke 4 and 3

HOW THEY STAND 

England ...............  2   2   0   0   13   5   2
Wales ...................  2   2   0   0   11   7   2
Ireland .................  2   0    0   0    6  12   0
Scotland ..............  2    0   0    0    6  12   0

FINAL MATCHES
 Ireland v Scotland
 England v Wales