Scottish Golf’s Eisenhower Trophy snub for Mcintosh
On-form Euan Mcintosh has been left out of Scotland’s three-man side for next month’ s world amateur team Championships at Carton House, near Dublin.
Winning the Scottish Amateur Championship at the age of 49 at Blairgowrie a week past Sunday hasn’t been enough to secure Mcintosh a place in the team. He knew that was the case before producing another strong performance to make a successful defence of the Amateur Gold Medal at Leven on Sunday.
The spots for the Eisenhower Trophy event have gone instead to Ryan Lumsden (Royal Wimbledon), Euan Walker (Kilmarnock (Barassie) and Sandy Scott (Nairn).
Lumsden, who qualified for the US Open at Shinnecock Hills in June, was an automatic selection as the highest-placed player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. He is currently 85th, with Walker and Scott, who have both secured picks, sitting 185th and 222nd respectively. No reference was made in a Scottish Golf press release announcing the teams of Mcintosh, who jumped 220 spots to 325th in the WAGR on the back of his title triumph in Perthshire.
Named simultaneously, Scotland will be represented in the women’s equivalent, the Espirito Santo Trophy, at the same venue the previous week by Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), Hannah Mccook (Grantown-on-spey) and Shannon Mcwilliam (Aboyne). The trio all helped Scotland win the Home Internationals in Ireland last week for the first time since 2010.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for all these players,” said Scottish Golf’s newlyappointed performance director, Clare Queen. “It is always difficult to select a squad but we look at the results not just this season but year-on-year and examine stroke averages.
“I am confident all six players will give a good account of themselves and we look forward to testing ourselves against the best next month.”