R and A team to compete in international collegiate

event at Fairmont St Andrews

FROM THE RandA WEBSITE
Five Foundation scholars will represent The RandA in an international collegiate event at the Fairmont’s Torrance Course just outside St Andrews.
The RandA team will be captained by 2004 Amateur Champion, Stuart Wilson, who played in this event himself in 2002 when a student at Abertay University in Dundee. On that occasion, the team of Scholars finished second, their best performance to date.


The team members are:
Ambroise Forquet (Bordeaux)
Alex Main (Edinburgh)
Andrew Palmer (Myerscough)
Vincent Thorne (Wales)
John Wybar (Aberdeen)

Eight university teams in all will compete including those from St Andrews, Stirling, the University of North Carolina and Georgia Southern.
The event will be held on Monday and Tuesday, September 6 and 7 with 36 holes of stroke play played on day one followed by 18 on day two. Four scores out of five will count in each round.


Alison White, The RandA’s Assistant Director – Golf Development, said: “This is an excellent opportunity for five RandA scholars to test themselves over the remodelled Torrance Course against top university teams from both sides of the Atlantic.

“We are looking for a good performance from the strong team selected and feel sure our players will be very well led by Stuart Wilson.”