ANTHONY BLANEY IN SCOTTISH U 16s

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Elderslie’s Alasdair McDougall has been rewarded for his fine form this season with a place in the Scotland Under 16s side to face England at Dinsdale Spa GC in Darlington next month.
The 16-year-old from Renfrewshire reached the fourth round of the Allied Surveyors Scottish Amateur Championship at Gullane, taking the notable scalp of SGU Order of Merit runner-up Philip McLean in the process and was a quarter-finalist in the Scottish Boys Championship earlier in the season.

He is joined by another rising star in Scottish Boys U14s champion Bradley Neil from Blairgowrie, who also won the English equivalent this summer as well as finishing runner-up in the national U16s championship. Ewan Scott, a member of the Scotland U18s side who defeated England during last month’s Boys Home Internationals, adds his experience to the team alongside Alva’s Lawrence Allan, another promising youngster who reached the last eight of the Scottish Boys Championship at West Kilbride.

Liberton (& Gullane )’s Anthony Blaney, a member of the victorious Lothians Boys Area Team Championship winning side, is included in the team, while Peebles’ Daniel Flannery and Dumfries & Galloway’s Greig Marchbank keep their places from the side which competed in the Boys Quadrangular Series in Holland back in April.

Cawder’s Jamie Savage, joint runner-up in the SGU Junior Tour event at Barassie, earns his first national call-up as does Cameron Farrell who will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of his legendary Cardross club-mate Charlie Green with the first of his international caps. Kirkhill’s James Steven completes the ten-strong line up.

The match takes place on Sunday 3 October. Scottish Golf Academy Coach Neil Marr will accompany the team alongside team manager Walter McLean.

Full Team:

Lawrence Allan (Alva)
Anthony Blaney (Liberton & Gullane )
Cameron Farrell (Cardross)
Daniel Flannery (Peebles)
Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie)
Greig Marchbank (Dumfries & Galloway)
Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie)
Jamie Savage (Cawder)
Ewan Scott (St Andrews)
James Steven (Kirkhill)