NEW-LOOK LINE-UP FOR SOUTHERNDOWN, SOUTH WALES
ROBB GAINS FIRST CAP IN SCOTLAND
TEAM FOR HOME INTERNATIONALS
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Scottish Amateur champion Chris Robb has been selected in a new-look
Scotland side for next week’s Men’s Home Internationals, the Meldrum
House player one of five
new faces bound for Wales.
The
23-year-old (pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency) from Banchory claimed a third straight domestic success at Downfield last
weekend, winning the SGU’s flagship event with a 4 and 3 success over
Glenbervie’s Graeme Robertson.
Robb’s
red hot form has now earned him a debut in Scotland’s 11-man side
seeking to repeat their 2012 triumph in the Home Internationals at
Southerndown Golf Club from August 13 to 15.
“I
was hoping to have done enough having won the Scottish Amateur, and I’m
now looking forward to representing Scotland at Men’s level after
previously playing at Boys’ level
in the Homes and Europeans,” said Robb, who finished his US college
career at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga earlier this year.
“I’ve
had a good few tournaments. I played well finishing up in the US and
from then on I’ve just kept it going. As far as Scottish golf is
concerned, I’ve not been fantastic
since the junior days, I suppose.
“I
won the North-east District 72-hole amateur championship two years ago, but other than that, not much
until now, so it’s been great to win the East of Scotland Championship,
the Cameron Corbett Vase
and then the Scottish Amateur.”
With
Blairgowrie’s Bradley Neil, the Amateur champion, and Craigielaw’s
Grant Forrest the St Andrews Links Trophy winner, contesting next week’s
US Amateur Championship in
Atlanta thanks to their places inside the top 50 of the World Amateur
Golf Ranking, the Scotland side is much changed from 12 months ago at
Ganton.
Robb
is joined in the Scotland side by four other new faces at Men’s Home
International level, namely Irish Open Stroke Play champion Jamie Savage
(Cawder), last year’s Scottish
Amateur semi-finalist Craig Ross (Kirkhill), ex-boys' cap Greig
Marchbank (Thornhill) and Sutherland Chalice victor Adam Dunton
(McDonald Ellon).
Southerness member
Scott Gibson returns to the line-up for the first time since 2011,
while a quintet of experienced players are looking forward to further
Home Internationals competition.
Palmer
Cup-winning duo James Ross (Royal Burgess) and Kilmarnock Barassie’s
Jack McDonald are joined by Scottish Amateur runner-up Robertson, making
his fourth appearance in
the event, Daniel Young of Craigie Hill and Kilmacolm’s Matthew Clark.
Selection
criteria states that the top five Scottish players from the World
Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), as well as the top two players on the SGU
Men’s Order of Merit, automatically
earn places on the team. The cut off date for automatic selection was
19 July.
With
Neil and Forrest unavailable, only three leading players earned
automatic selection off the WAGR – Savage, James Ross and McDonald –
with second-placed Dunton the only
Order of Merit automatic selection, given it is led by Neil. This
resulted in seven selectors’ picks to complete the team.
Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 24
Scott Gibson (Southerness) 21
Greig Marchbank (Thornhill) 20
Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) 21
Chris Robb (Meldrum House) 23
Craig Ross (Kirkhill) 21
James Ross (Royal Burgess) 24
Graeme Robertson (Glenbervie) 26
Jamie Savage (Cawder) 20
Daniel Young (Craigie Hill) 22
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