SCOTTISH BOYS AYREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - Ayrshire finish well adrift of winners Lanarkshire at Grangemouth.

Ayrshire finished well adrift of winners Lanarkshire on Sunday 5th June when the Scottish Boys Area Team Championship was contested at Grangemouth Golf Club.

Ayrshire were up against it following the morning foursomes, Calum Irving (Ayr Belleisle) and Jack Broun (Ayr Belleisle) scoring 86 whilst Jordan Sweeney (Ayr Belleisle) and Euan Ferguson (Turnberry) scored 74 to give a team total of 160 to lie in tenth place behind leaders Lanarkshire on 149.

Jack Broun (75) , Calum Irving (82) and Euan Ferguson (83) provided the three counting scores in the afternoon singles, with Jordan Sweeney's 89 being discarded, to give Ayrshire a 45 over par total of 400, which was 32 shots worse than Lanarkshire, who won by a single shot from defending champions, Lothians, with North east in third place, five shots adrift of the runners up.

Ayrshire's total left them in thirteenth place out of the sixteen competing areas, and last of the six West Of Scotland areas.

FINAL TEAM SCORES :-

368 - LANARKSHIRE (+13)
369 - LOTHIANS (+14)
374 - NORTH EAST (+19)
378 - NORTH, RENFREWSHIRE (+23)
382 - ANGUS, SOUTH OF SCOTLAND (+27)
383 - PERTH & KINROSS (+28)
388 - FIFE (+33)
393 - DUMBARTONSHIRE (+38)
394 - STIRLINGSHIRE (+39)
395 - GLASGOW (+40)
400 - AYRSHIRE (+45)
404 - CLACKMANNANSHIRE, ARGYLL & BUTE (+49)
411 - BORDERS (+56)