SCOTTISH AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS - Ayrshire qualify comfortably for matchplay stages

Ayrshire qualified comfortably in sixth place for the matchplay stages of the 2015 Scottish Area team Championships, being played this weekend at Blairgowrie.

The succesful Ayrshire team :-
Jack McDonald, John Shanks, Stuart Robin
Keith hamilton, Scott Brown, Tommy McInally

With two rounds of strokeplay qualifying on Friday 15th May, and the top eight of the sixteen areas going through to the matchplay rounds, the best five scores from six over both the Landsdowne and Rosemount courses counted towards the team total.

Ayrshire's score over the Lansdowne course was 370, with Jack McDonald (71), Stuart Robin (75), John Shanks (71), Keith Hamilton (78) and Scott Brown (75) providing the counting scores and Tommy McInally's score of 79 being discarded.

On the Rosemount course the Ayrshire team total was 359 with jack McDonald (68), stuart Robin (69), John Shanks (75), Keith Hamilton (73) & Tommy McInally (74) providing the counting scores and Scott Brown's score of 76 being discarded.

The team total of 729 left Ayrshire comfortably in sixth place of the eight qualifiers, eight shots ahead of the North east in seventh place.

Final team totals were :-

717 - DUMBARTONSHIRE

722 - RENFREWSHIRE

724 - PERTH & KINROSS

726 - FIFE

727 - GLASGOW

729 - AYRSHIRE

737 - NORTH EAST

740 - LANARKSHIRE

748 - NORTH

749 - ANGUS

751 - SOUTH

754 - STIRLING

759 - LOTHIANS

767 - BORDERS

776 - CLACKMANNANSHIRE

778 - ARGYLL & BUTE

The quarter final matches take place on Saturday morning, 16th May, with the semi finals in the afternoon. The format for the quarter and semi finals is four singles matches and one foursome.

The line up for the quarter finals matches (subject to confirmation) is :-

DUMBARTONSHIRE Vs LANARKSHIRE

FIFE Vs GLASGOW

RENFREWSHIRE Vs NORTH EAST 

PERTH & KINROSS Vs AYRSHIRE