Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) has been named as one of the six players who will travel to play Italy, France and Sweden in the Boys Quadrangular matches in Italy from 3 - 5 march.Scottish Boys Champion Grant Forrest will lead a six-strong Scotland team this week when they face the host nation Italy, France and Sweden in the 2011 Boys Quadrangular at the Acaya Golf Resort in Pugilia (3 – 5 March).
Forrest, who defeated Ian Redford 3 and 2 in the national match play final at West Kilbride last year and defends his title at Dunbar next month, was also one of Scotland’s top performers at last year’s Boys’ Home Internationals taking four points from a possible six.
He is joined by former Scottish Boys Stroke Play Champion Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie), a first year Applied Maths student at the University of Stirling, and Dumfries & County’s Liam Johnston, who finished runner-up in the SGU Boys’ Order of Merit last season and was a quarter-finalist in the Scottish Amateur Championship at Gullane.
Blairgowrie’s Bradley Neil, winner of the Scottish and English Boys Under-14s Championships in 2010, makes his eagerly anticipated step up to Under 18s level while another former winner of the English Boys Under-14s Championship Ewan Scott – twice a winner during the SGU’s Junior Winter Series this season – also earns a place in the side.
Dubai resident Daniel Hendry, who won the Emirates Golf Federation’s Junior Order of Merit last year, is also in the side having performed well on his Scotland debut during August’s Boys’ Home Internationals as well as finishing fourth in the Scottish Boys Stroke Play Championship at Craigielaw.
Former Open Championship silver medallist Stuart Wilson will provide his experience to the young Scots as non-playing captain while National Under-18s coach Neil Marr will also accompany the side.
“The Boys Quadrangular Match is a great way to start the season for our leading boys and we’ll face some very strong competition from Italy, France and Sweden who all have fantastic records in developing excellent young golfers in recent years,” said Marr.
“We have a very talented squad with a good blend of players who are experienced at this level as well as two of our most promising youngsters in Ewan and Bradley, who have both shown they can compete against strong fields. Scotland has a good record in this event and the boys are all really looking forward to the challenge.” he added.
The team will practice on Tuesday and Wednesday before the opening match of the series gets underway on Thursday.
Team:
Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie)
Grant Forrest (Craigielaw)
Liam Johnston (Dumfries & County)
Ewan Scott (St Andrews)
Daniel Hendry (United Arab Emirates)
Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie)
Non-travelling reserve: Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie)
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