By Colin Farquharson
Lauren Whyte (St Regulus), highlighted the morning foursomes play on the last day of the Girls Home Internationals at St Annes Old Links, Lancashire by achieving a hole in one with a nine iron at the 140yd third hole.
It was Lauren's second competitive ace. Her first one was at Dunfermline in the Scottish U21 girls strokeplay of 2011
Lauren and her partner, Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), her predecessor as Scottish U18 girls champion, won their foursomes tie by 4 and 3 against Chloe Williams and Ella Griffiths of Wales.
The foursomes ended at 1 1/2-1 1/2pt apiece in both Scotland v Wales and also the England v Ireland match.
Wales went on to beat Scotland 5-4, by taking the singles 3 1/2-2 1/2. Scotland's singles winners were national champion Connie Jaffrey, who won by 5 and 3 against Bethan Morris, and Heather Munro (Monifieth), a 5 and 3 winner over Georgia Lewis.
Lauren Whyte had a square match in the top singles against full Wales cap Chloe Williams
Connie Jaffrey was the tournaments MVP - the top performer of the four squads with 5pt out of six. Whyte and Irish left hander Mary Doyle had the joint second best individual points totals of 4 1/2 each.
England's best was Annabel Dimmock with 3 1/2pt.
England won the tournament's Stroyan Cup for the sixth year in a row despite losing their last match 5-4 to Ireland.
With Scotland's defeat, England could afford to lose to Ireland and still take the title with their 2pt from the first day's play.
Ireland and Wales both finished with 1 1/2pt each. On a count back of individual games won, Ireland had the edge (13 1/2 to 11 1/2) and that won them the Swansea Spoon as runners-up.
Scotland finished last with 1pt.
Friday match details:
SCOTLAND 4, WALES 5
Foursomes - L Whyte and C Jaffrey bt C Williams and E Griffiths, C Young and T Mactaggart halved with N Greville and G Lewis, F Liddell and H Munro lost to E Miller and B Morris 1 hole (1 1/2-1 1/2).
Singles - Whyte halved with Williams, Jaffrey bt Morris 5 and 3, Young lost to Greville 3 and 2, Munro bt Lewis 5 and 3, N Robertson lost to Miller 3 and 1, L Atkins lost to M Lockett 2 and 1 (2 1/2-3 1/2).
ENGLAND 4, IRELAND 5
Foursomes - G Cowley and S Lamb bt C Weir and J McCarthy 2 and 1, A Dimmock and S Fuller lost to S Burke and N Ward 1 hole,
S Keech and A Hewson halved with O Mehaffey and M Doyle (1 1/2-1 1/2).
Singles - Cowley lost to Mehaffey 6 and 4, Dimmock lost to Doyle 4 and 3, Hewson bt N McSherry 4 and 2, Fuller bt Burke 2 and 1, O Winning lost to Ward 2 holes, Lamb halved with A Coyle Diez 2 1/2-3 1/2)
HOW THEY FINISHED
1 England 2 pt
2 Ireland 1 1/2pt (+13 1/2 individual games won)
3 Wales 1 1/2 pt (+11 1/2 individual games won)
4 Scotland 1pt.
Next year's Girls' Home Internationals will be hosted by Donabate Golf Club, near Dublin from August 6 to 8
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