Friday, September 14, 2018


Scots finish third as England KO Ireland's

 bid for fifth title in a row

An England team that had scrambled a narrow 8-7 victory over Scotland 24 hours earlier, finished up as Men's Home International champions at Conway Golf Club, North Wales today.
England, with an 8.5-6.5 victory, ended Ireland's bid to win the title for a fifth year in a row.
Scotland filled their usual position .. third, by winning the "wooden spoon" match against bottom dogs Wales 8-7.
England and Ireland shared the morning foursomes 2.5-2.5 but then England won six of the nine afternoon singles.
Scotland forged 4-1 ahead of Wales at the end of the foursomes but the Welsh fought back well to take the singles 6-4.

Scotland's weakness is that we don't have strength in depth. For instance, four of the team gained only one point over the three days and a a fifth player gained 1.5pt. Here is the tell-table of under-performance

E Walker 5pt out of possible 6.
R Lumsden 4pt out of possible 6
James Wilson 3pt out of possible 6.
Stuart Easton 3pt out of possible 6
Jeff Wright 2pt out of possible 5
E McIntosh 2pt out of possible 6
James Johnston 1.5 out of possible 6
Stephen Roger 1pt out of possible 4
Kieran Cantley 1pt out of possible 5
Matt Clark 1pt out of possible 5
Calum Fyfe 1pt out of possible 5

DETAILS
SCOTLAND 8, WALES 7
Foursomes: 4-1
S Roger and J Wright lost to J Hapgood and A Davies 3 and 1.
K Cantley and C Fyfe bt T Williams and K Harman 1 hole.'R Lumsden and E McIntosh bt B Chamberlain and L Sanges 3 and 1.
J Johnston and J Wilson bt O Brown and M Roberts 6 and 5.
E Walker and S Easton bt G Trew and J Davies 4 and 3.
Singles: 4-6
R Lumsden bt Hapgood 4 and 3.
Fyfe lost to Chamberlain 3 and 12.
Cantley lost to P Mullins 3 and 2.
Roger lost to Harman 1 hole.
Walker bt Williams 2 and 1.
Johnston lost to Roberts 3 and 2.
J Wright lost to J Davies 2 and 1.
Easton bt A Davies 4 and 3.
Wilson bt Sanges 1 hole.
McIntosh lost to Trew 2 holes.

IRELAND 6.5, ENGLAND 8.5
Foursomes: 2.5-2.5
R Dawson and P O'Keefe lost to A Wilson and D Hague 2 holes.
C Purcell and M Power halved with T Plumb and T Sloman.
C Rafferty and J Yates lost to M Waite and J Long 4 and 3.
R Cannon and J Sugrue bt B Jones and J Burnage 5 and 4.
T McLarnon and R Mullarney bt N Poppleton and B Gill 2 and 1.
Singles: 4-6
Dawson lost to Waite 2 holes.
Purcell lost to Wilson 7 and 6.
Power bt Sloman 2 holes.
Rafferty lost to Hague 2 and 1.
Sugrue lost to Plumb 3 and 2.
A Gleeson lost to D Langley 2 holes
Cannon lost to Long 3 and 2.
O'Keefe bt Poppleton 3 and 2.
Mullarney bt Gill 1 hole.
McLarnon bt Jones 3 and 2.

FINAL PLACINGS
1 England
2 Ireland
3 Scotland
4 Wales

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