Annual match for Mary McKenna Salver

Senior Scots and Irish stars

at Cruden Bay this weekend

The leading senior women golfers in Scotland and Ireland will be in action at Cruden Bay this weekend in the annual match for the Mary McKenna Salver.
Mary, eight times Irish champion who played in nine successive Curtis Cup matches and is the current Great Britain & Ireland team captain, is just one member of a very strong Irish team of over-50 year olds.
Valerie Hassett (Ennis) and Mary, a Donabate GC member, won the British senior women's championship in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

Mary McKenna, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, won the Hacienda del Alamo Senior Ladies Open at the Spanish golf resort in February this year.
The Scots, captained by home-course player Lynne Terry, are bidding for a hat-trick of victories having won the match in 2007 and 2008. The Irish have not won the trophy since the first three years of the competition - 2000, 2001 and 2002 - but with the players who have made the trip to the classic Cruden Bay links - where Ireland won the women's home internationals title in 1980 and 2003, they will start slight favourites to take the salver back to the Emerald Isle.
Play starts at 11am on Saturday (four-balls) and Sunday (singles).
Teams:
SCOTLAND

Heather Anderson (Northern), Lorna Bennett (Midlands), Fiona De Vries (Midlands), Jill Harrison (Northern), May Hughes (West), Fiona Hunter (East), Mary Smith (Highland), Kathleen Sutherland (Northern). Captain: Lynne Terry (Northern).
IRELAND

Valerie Hassett (Ennis), Marilyn Henderson (West Rhine), Helen Jones (Strabane), Mary Madden (Ballinasloe), Violet McBride (Belvoir Park), Sheena McElroy (Grange), Mary McKenna (Donabate), Pauline Walsh (Headford). Captain: Roma English (Larne).