Australia wins Tri-Am Match, a warm-up for the British Am
Antonio Murdaca
CASTLE STUART, Scotland (June 12, 2015) --
Australia claimed a narrow victory over Scotland
in a
Tri-am International match at Castle Stuart Golf
Links.
The Scots were in control after the opening day
of
the friendly fixture against two Aussie teams and
South Africa.
In the wonderful sunshine, the Scots six
sparkled to hold a 12-shot lead over South Africa
going into the second and final day.
But the No. 1 team from Down Under
stormed
back yesterday to record a 340 total (five scores
from six), helped by top-ranked Lucas Herbert,
who
fired a 65 which featured a hole-in-one at the
17th.
With Scotland scoring 356, aided by Daniel
Young (Craigie Hill) and Robert Macintyre
(Glencruitten) again achieving sub-70 scores, the
teams were tied on 14 under par.
But it was Australia team, comprised of
several
top players who collected the silverware thanks
to
their better combined score on the second day.
On
the team from Australia were world amateur
ranked
No. 14 Ryan Ruffels, Lucas Herbert – who set a
new
course record at Moray en route to a share of
fourth
place at the Scottish Open Amateur – plus Taylor
MacDonald, Cameron Davis and
Antonio Murdaca.
The event formed the final preparation for
players in all the teams for next week’s
Amateur Championship, with the first of two
qualifying rounds taking place on Monday, June
15
and Tuesday, June 16 at Carnoustie and
Panmure.
The match-play stage starts on Wednesday the
16th
at Carnoustie.
story courtesy the Press Reader of Scotland
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Championship, is considered the most important in
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The first stage of the Championship involves 288
players each of whom plays two rounds of 18 holes,
one to be played on each of the two courses. The 64
lowest scores over the 36 holes and ties for 64th
place will compete in the match play stage of the
Championship. Each match will consist of one round
of 18 holes except the Final which will be over 36
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