Scotland’s Senior Men’s team lost by 4 - 1 to England in the
semi-finals of the European Senior Men’s team Championship at Rungsted GC,
Denmark on Friday morning, 6th September.
Despite the final margin of victory, the match was a close
run encounter with the destination of a place in the final in doubt until the
final few holes of the latter ties.
In the foursomes tie team captain Ian Borotherston again
joined forces with Robert Smith and they battled all the way before eventually
losing out to Ian Attoe & Alan Mew by 2&1.
In the lead singles tie, Ronnie Clark kept up his fine form,
storming to a 5&3 victory over Rupert Kellock to square the match overall.
The anchor tie saw Graham Bell trail Paul Wharton for most
of the tie, with Wharton eventually closing the tie out by 3&2 to put England
2-1 ahead with two tie remaining on course.
Stewart Henderson held a single hole lead through the turn
in his tie against Rich Jones whilst Paul Moultrie from Royal Troon trailed Richard Norton by
two holes through twelve, leaving the overall match finely balanced as the two
ties moved into the last few holes.
Moultrie managed to reduce the deficit to one by the fifteenth,
but this was offset by Henderson losing a hole to go back to square at the same
stage.
With three holes to play there were still holes of Scotland
squeezing past England to go through to the final but in the end, it was the
England players who finished better, Jones edging out Henderson by one hole and
Norton getting over the line against Moultrie with a 2&1 victory.
In Saturday’s final, England will play Ireland who
beat Denmark 3 - 2 in their
semi final, whilst Scotland will play off with Denmark for third
place.
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