Day 2 results from Panmure


GIRLS’ HOME INTERNATIONALS
Panmure Golf Club, Barry, Carnoustie
Day 2

ENGLAND 6 1/2, SCOTLAND 2 1/2
Foursomes: H Barwood, H Clyburn bt C Booth, K MacDonald 4 and 3; R Connor, H Baek bt R Wilson, S Vass 2 holes; K Tidy, A Peters bt A Niven, L Atkins 4 and 3 (3-0).
Singles: Barwood bt E Briggs 7 and 5, Clyburn bt Niven 4 and 2, Tidy lost to Booth 2 and 1, H Searle lost to MacDonald 5 and 4, Peters halved with Wilson, Connor bt Vass 8 and 7 (3 ½- 2 ½).

IRELAND 4 1/2, WALES 4 1/2
Foursomes: Leona Maguire, Lisa Maguire bt G Bradbury, C Williams 4 and 3; S Meadow, S L Winter bt K Miller, N Gobey 5 and 4; S Cunningham, E O’Driscoll lost to A Boulden, K O’Connor 2 holes (2-1).
Singles: Lisa Maguire bt K Bradbury 7 and 6, P Delaney lost to Miller 6 and 4, S Crowe lost to Boulden 5 and 4, Meadow halved with O’Connor, O’Driscoll bt G Bradbury 4 and 2, Leona Maguire lost to Gobey 2 and 1 (2 1/2 –3 1/2)

THURSDAY’S FINAL MATCHES
Scotland v Ireland
Wales v England


England look set to regain the Stroyan Cup they last won three years ago. They destroyed the title hat-trick hopes of Scotland by beating them 6 1/2-2 ½ on a miserably wet, windy and cool Day 2 of Girls’ Home Internationals at Panmure Golf Club, Barry near Carnoustie.
England, with wins over Ireland and now Scotland, complete their programme on Thursday by playing Wales. The Scots play Ireland in a contest for the runner-up position.
Ireland were held to a 4 ½-4 ½ draw by Wales.
The writing was on the wall in rather large letters for skipper Elaine Moffat’s home squad when England made a clean sweep of all three morning foursomes.
The English remained in the driving seat in the singles in which Scotland promoted Eilidh Briggs (who was withdrawn from the morning action, suffering from the tiring after-effects of a bout of hayfever), and 16-year-old Annabel Niven to the top two singles berths.
English women’s champion Hannah Barwood beat Eilidh by 7 and 5 in a one-sided contest in which the Scot did not win a hole and was five down at the turn.
England’s No 6 in the batting order, Rachel Connor, advanced the scoreline to 5-0 – a winning margin overall - by beating an off-form Sammy Vass 8 and 7. Rachel did not lose a hole and won six of the first seven plus the ninth to be seven up at the turn.
Kelsey MacDonald put Scotland’s first point on the scoreboard by beating Helen Searle 5 and 4. Helen, introduced by England captain Julie Brown for her first outing of the week, had the misfortune to meet an in-form Scotland Under-21 champion in the No 4 position in the ‘batting order.’
Searle won only one hole, the 10th, to reduce her deficit to two holes. MacDonald then captured the 11th, 13th and 14th for victory.
Holly Clyburn made it 6-1 overall for England with a 4 and 2 win over Annabel Niven who was always playing second fiddle after losing the first two holes. Clyburn was three up at the turn and won the 10th.
Scotland’s Under-18 champion, Carly Booth, playing at No 3, beat Kelly Tidy 2 and 1 in a match between two members of Europe’s Junior Ryder Cup team for America next month.
Kelly was two up after 10 but Carly turned the tide with wins at the 12th, 13th and 14th.
Scotland’s heroine from the opening day, Rebecca Wilson, one down on the 18th tee, again showed her battling qualities by winning the last with a par 4 to gain a halved match with 14-year-old Alex Peters.
England, winners by 6 1/2-2 1/2, thus avenged a 7 ½-1 ½ defeat by the all-conquering Scots 12 months ago.
Lisa Maguire, the Irish girls’ champion, preserved her 100% success record through four sessions of play by beating Katie Bradbury 7 and 6 in the top singles tie in the Ireland-Wales match. Lisa lost only one hole, the third, and was five up after eight holes before adding further successes at the 10th and 11th.
Wales, who had lost the foursomes 2-1, levelled the overall score at 3-3 with a 6 and 4 win by Kelly Miller over Patrice Delaney and a 5 and 4 success by Welsh girls champion Amy Boulden against Irish newcomer Sarah Crowe.
Miller jumped into a four-hole lead after only five holes and was a commanding six holes to the good at the turn.
Boulden made her personal record four wins out of four over the two days but Sarah was still square after six holes, having won the sixth to cancel out the loss of the third,. Boulden slipped into top gear to win four holes in a row from the seventh in the decisive part of the tie.
Ireland edged ahead 4-3 with a 4 and 2 win by Emma O’Driscoll over Gemma Bradbury. Emma was two up after seven but lost the eighth before taking a grip on the outcome with successes at the 10th, 12th and 14th holes.
That left two ties to finish and Wales, in the shape of Katherine O’Connor and Natasha Gobey, were one up in both of them coming into the closing holes.
US-based Stephanie Meadow, trailing to O’Connor throughout the match after losing the second and fourth holes and still two down with two to play, bravely won both the 17th and 18th for a square match. That ensured that Ireland would get at least a draw and in the end that’s what they got.
Even with Irish women’s champion Leona Maguire in the No 6 slot, they could not get the point that would have given them victory.
Natasha, playing the game of her life, square the match at the 11th and edged ahead at the 14th and clinched a 2 and 1 victory by winning the 17th with a bogey 5.