YOUTHS LEAGUE - Ayrshire win 2013 title at Buchanan Castle

The Ayrshire Youths team are the 2013 West Of Scotland Inter County champions following a nail biting 4.5 – 3.5 win in their final match of the campaign on Sunday 13^th October, away to Stirlingshire at Buchanan Castle.

The winning Ayrshire team at Buchanan Castle
with team manager Robert Wilson

In winning the match, the Ayrshire side completed the five match series undefeated.

At the mid stage of the match, Ayrshire looked to be cruising to victory but the home side had other ideas and fought back to leave the result in doubt right up to the final two ties.

Greg Vernon got Ayrshire’s first point on the board with a 7 & 5 win and this was added to with wins for both Stuart Easton & Robbie Fitzpatrick, Easton closing out his tie with a superb approach to within three feet at the seventeenth, and what was to prove a very important half match by Greg Telfer in the lead tie.

Liam Haldane with a 2 & 1 win and Stuart Irving with a 6 & 5 result kept Stirlingshire’s hopes alive, leaving the match poised at  3.5 – 2.5 for Ayrshire with two ties remaining on the course.

With Craig Telfer behind in the last tie, it looked likely that the point required for a win for Ayrshire lay in the hands of Gary Morrison, and as it was Morrison became the hero of the hour, closing out his match with successive birdies at the seventeenth and eighteenth for a two hole victory to give Ayrshire the win required to secure the title.

Match details (Stirlingshire names first):-

Hugh Nelson (Kilsyth) halved with Greg Telfer (Prestwick St Cuthbert)

Greig Nicol (Bonnybridge) lost to Stuart Easton (Irvine) by 3 & 1

Richard Johnstone (Glenbervie) lost to Greg Vernon (Kilmarnock Barassie) by 7 & 5

Mark McInulty (Glenbervie) lost to Robbie Fitzpatrick (Irvine) by 3 & 2

Liam Haldane (Stirling) beat Alastair Berry (Irvine Ravenspark) by 2 & 1

Dariusz Kynecki (Stirling) lost to Gary Morrison (Kilmarnock Barassie) by 2 holes

Stuart Irving (Falkirk) beat Daryll Lynch (Ayr Belleisle) by 6 & 5

Blair Carnegie (Glenbervie) beat Craig Telfer (Prestwick St Cuthbert) by 1 hole 

STIRLINGSHIRE   3.5   AYRSHIRE   4.5

In the match between Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire at Airdrie, honours were shared in a 4 – 4 draw, whilst the result of the match between Dumbartonshire and Glasgow at Windyhill is still awaited.

Present positions in the Youths League are :-

	P	F	A	Pts
AYRSHIRE	5	27	13	9
RENFREWSHIRE	4	18.5	13.5	5
STIRLINGSHIRE	4	18	14	4
LANARKSHIRE	5	12.5	27.5	3
DUMBARTONSHIRE	3	9.5	14.5	2
GLASGOW	3	9.5	14.5	1

Matches postponed in week 1 and due to be played next Sunday are

Glasgow Vs Stirlingshire & Renfrewshire Vs Dumbartonshire