PRESIDENT'S TROPHY - Ayrshire Boys & Youths team storm to victory over South of Scotland at Wigtownshire County

The combined Ayrshire Boys and Youths team stormed to victory over their hosts from the South of Scotland at Wigtownshire County Golf Club on Sunday the 14th of April as they retained the Presidents Troiphy in the annual match, the traditional opening fixture of the season.

The team of four under 16's, four under 18's and four under 23's played six foursomes ties in the morning and twelve singles ties in the afternoon.

The Ayrshire side, who won the trophy in 2023 at Girvan, overwhelmed their hosts in the morning foursomes to take a 5.5 - 0.5 lead into the afternoon singles, with only the anchor youths match ending with honours even.

Looking for a strong start in the afternoon singles, the Under 16 and under 18 players dfelivered, taking alleight of their ties without reply before the South of Scotland team rallied a little by winning the four youths ties by 3 - 1.

The outstanding team display, particularly by the under 16 and under 18 players who recorded a 100% win record over the foursomes and singles ties, saw Ayrshire retain the president's Trophy with a 14.5 - 3.5 overall match score in their favour.

Match details (Ayrshire names first):-

Foursomes

Finlay Watt (West Kilbride) & Ollie Kane (Royal Troon) beat Scott gardiner (Portpatrick) & Riley Gratton (Stranraer) by 6&5

Aiden Hay (Irvine) & Liam Moran (Irvine) beat ZakStankovic (Lochmaben) & Brennan henry (Dalbeattie) by 3&1

Dylan Scally (West Kilbride) & Harris Fleming (Royal Troon) beat Carla Morris (Dumfries & County) & Joe Clark (Dumfries & County) by 5&3

Quinton Dunlop (Turnberry) & Scott newman (Royal Troon) beat Murray paterson (Dumfries & County) & Matt Mcfarlane (Lochmaben) by 4&3

Ryan Kennedy (Irvine) & Jamie Hay (Ayr Belleisle) beat Colin McKenzie (Lochmaben) & Cieran Howit (Dumfries & County) by 6&4

Harvey McDonald (Turnberry) & Harvey Broadfoot (Royal Troon) halved with Adam Scott (Lochmaben) & Rogan McGraw (Dumfries & County) 

Singles

Watt beat Gardner by 5&4

Moran beat Henry by 2&1

Kane beat Stankovic by 5&4

A. Hay beat Gratten by 6&5

Newman beat Morris by 8&6

Fleming beat Paterson by 2&1

Dunlop beat McFarlane by 1 hole

Scally beat Clark by 1 hole

Broadfoot beat McKenzie by 6&5

McDonald lost to Howit by 5&4

kennedy lost to McGraw by 3&2

J. Hay lost to Scott by 4&3 

AYRSHIRE   14.5   SOUTH OF SCOTLAND   3.5