EUROPEAN GIRLS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPE

SCOTS GIRLS BEATEN BY DANES

Scotland were narrowly beaten 3-2 by Denmark in the first round of the European girls’ team golf championship at Esbjerg Golf Club today

The best they can do now is to finish fifth in the eight-team top flight but they will still finish the week with a higher ranking than either England, Wales or Ireland, none of whom qualified for the championship flight.Carly Booth (Comrie) and Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) lost at the 20^th in one of the two morning foursomes. Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) and Roseanne Niven (Crieff) won the other alternate-shot tie, which meant that everything depended on the three afternoon singles.

Denmark won two of them with Carly being beaten 2 and 1 and Krystle going down 4 and 3. Scotland’s only singles winner was Roseanne.

Top seeds Sweden were shocked 3-2 by eighth qualifiers France while Germany edged out Belgium 3-2 and Spain whacked Netherlands 4-1.

Results:

FLIGHT 1

SWEDEN 2, FRANCE 3

GERMANY 3, BELGIUM 2

DENMARK 3, SCOTLAND 2

Foursomes: L V Hansen & S Monberg bt C Booth & K Caithness at 20^th; C Lorentzen & M Schodt lost to K MacDonald & R Niven 6 and 4 (1-1).

Singles: Monberg bt Booth 2 and 1, M Schodt lost to Niven 23 and 1, Lorentzen bt Caithness 4 and 3 (2-1).

SPAIN 4, NETHERLANDS 1.

FLIGHT 2

ENGLAND 3, CZECH REP 2

ITALY 3, FINLAND 2

SWITZERLAND 4, WALES 1

Bye: NORWAY

FLIGHT 3

ICELAND 3, LATVIA 2

Bye: Ireland.