STIRLING v ST ANDREWS MEN'S VARSITY FINAL AT LOSSIEMOUTH
REPORT FROM LOSSIEMOUTH BY Dr ROB MacPHERSON
On a windy but sunny semi-final day at Moray New golf course in Lossiemouth, the top two seeded teams - Stirling and St Andrews - progressed to Friday's final on Moray Old with relatively little impediment.
In the first semi-final, St Andrews took a commanding 4-1 lead from the morning foursomes and, despite some fine individual performances in the afternoon, Aberdeen were unable to eat into this lead.
A good win for Aberdeen's Keith Shanks and a half for Nick Macandrew playing at Nos 2 and 3 respectively came too late to make any difference and the team from the Home of Golf took the honours with 10-5 margin.
In the other semi-final, Stirling 1st (the university golf scholars) suffered a few sqeaky moments after the morning foursomes again their "non-scholar" Stirling 2nd colleagues. 3-2 at lunchtime.
However, class told in the end. In the afternoon singles, all ten scholars outplayed their 2nd team opponents and a final margin of 13-2 reflected the gulf in class (and echoed the previous meeting this season when the scholars came out on top in an intramural match at the Gleneagles Hotel)
Tomorrow's final will see Stirling and St Andrews battle out the championship for the Mitchell Trophy - the third time in five years that these pairs have come together at this stage.
SEMI-FINALS
STIRLING (1) 13, STIRLING (2) 2
Foursomes (3-2)
Ollie Roberts and Kit Holmes lost to Finlay White and Richie Tidman 2 holes.
Jack McDonald and Mike Howard lost to Phil Neil and Malko Schraner 1 hole.
Dewi Merckx and Mathias Eggenberger bt Duncan Douglas and James Morrison 5 and 4.
Patrick Spraggs and Zander Culverwell bt Chris Long and Mike Thelwall Jones 5 and 4.
David Booth and Angus Carrick beat Craig Boyd and Mike McNally 3 and 2.
On a windy but sunny semi-final day at Moray New golf course in Lossiemouth, the top two seeded teams - Stirling and St Andrews - progressed to Friday's final on Moray Old with relatively little impediment.
In the first semi-final, St Andrews took a commanding 4-1 lead from the morning foursomes and, despite some fine individual performances in the afternoon, Aberdeen were unable to eat into this lead.
A good win for Aberdeen's Keith Shanks and a half for Nick Macandrew playing at Nos 2 and 3 respectively came too late to make any difference and the team from the Home of Golf took the honours with 10-5 margin.
In the other semi-final, Stirling 1st (the university golf scholars) suffered a few sqeaky moments after the morning foursomes again their "non-scholar" Stirling 2nd colleagues. 3-2 at lunchtime.
However, class told in the end. In the afternoon singles, all ten scholars outplayed their 2nd team opponents and a final margin of 13-2 reflected the gulf in class (and echoed the previous meeting this season when the scholars came out on top in an intramural match at the Gleneagles Hotel)
Tomorrow's final will see Stirling and St Andrews battle out the championship for the Mitchell Trophy - the third time in five years that these pairs have come together at this stage.
SEMI-FINALS
STIRLING (1) 13, STIRLING (2) 2
Foursomes (3-2)
Ollie Roberts and Kit Holmes lost to Finlay White and Richie Tidman 2 holes.
Jack McDonald and Mike Howard lost to Phil Neil and Malko Schraner 1 hole.
Dewi Merckx and Mathias Eggenberger bt Duncan Douglas and James Morrison 5 and 4.
Patrick Spraggs and Zander Culverwell bt Chris Long and Mike Thelwall Jones 5 and 4.
David Booth and Angus Carrick beat Craig Boyd and Mike McNally 3 and 2.
SINGLES (10-0)
Howard bt Tidman 3 and 2.
Roberts bt White 5 and 4.
McDonald bt Schraner 4 and 3.
Merckx bt Neil 5 and 4.
Eggenberger bt Morrison 1 hole.
Culverwell bt Douglas 1 hole.
Booth bt Thelwall Jones 4 and 3.
Spraggs bt Long 5 and 3.
Holmes bt McNally 7 and 5.
Carrick bt Boyd 7 and 6
St ANDREWS 10, ABERDEEN 5
Foursomes (4-1)
Blair Pelling and Conor Gask lost to Keith Sanks and John Drummond 1 hole.
Bryn Rocke and Paul Campbell bt Peter Grant and Chris Maycock 4 and 3.
Elliott Dodds and Cole Sedgwick bt Gavin Bissett and Douglas Ibbotson 4 and 3.
Freddie Edmunds and Joe Marchbank bt Ross Crummey and Duncan Arthur 4 and 3.
Matt Wheeler and Vincent Blom bt Nick Macandrew and Douglas Maxwell 1 hole.
Singles (6-4)
Samir Nanji bt Grant 4 and 3.
Pete Green halved with Maycock.
Pelling bt Ibbotson 1 hole.
Marchbank bt Arthur 2 and 1.
Blom lost to Crummey 1 hole.
Dodds bt Drummond 4 and 3.
Edmunds lost to Bissett 1 hole.
Sedgwick bt Maxwell 2 and 1.
Wheeler lost to Shanks 1 hole.
Rocke halved with Macandrew.
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