Hannah Darling and Lorna McClymont to represent GB&I at Royal Dornoch

Hannah Darling, pictured in action during last week's R&A Women's Amateur Championship at Prince's in Kent, has been selected for the Vagliano Trophy at Royal Dornoch along with Lorna McClymont. Tom Dulat/R&A/R&A via Getty Images.

Two Scots - Hannah Darling and Lorna McClymont - have been named in the Great Britain & Ireland team for next week’s Vagliano Trophy against the Continent of Europe at Royal Dornoch.

Broomieknowe’s Darling and Milngavie member McClymont will be part of an eight-strong GB&I side bidding to win the two-day match for the first time since 2005.

Darling, Scotland’s highest-ranked amateur player, has represented GB&I in two Curtis Cups while McClymont, who currently holds both the Irish and Welsh Women’s Open titles, has played in the last two Palmer Cups for the International side.

In a GB&I side captained by Maria Dunne, Darling and McClymont will join forces on this occasion with four English players and two from Ireland.

Rosie Belsham (Whitley Bay), Charlotte Heath (Huddersfield), Caley McGinty (Knowle) and Lotti Woad (Farnham) will be the English players on duty at the Sutherland venue, where Beth Coulter (Kirkistown Castle) and Aine Donegan (Lahinch) will be flying the Irish flag.

The event takes place on 30 June and 1 July, when the Junior Vagliano Trophy will be running alongside the main match at the same venue.

Bidding to make history by winning it for the first time, Janet Melville will captain a side made up of three English players, two from Ireland and one representing Wales.

The team is Sadie Adams (Royal Birkdale), Olivia Costello (Roscommon), Kate Dillon (Oughterard), Isobel Kelly (Erewash Valley, Rosie Kim (The Buckinghamshire) and Chloe Tarbard (Royal Norwich).

Meanwhile, Nairn’s Calum Scott survived a shaky second round to qualify for the match-play phase in the R&A Amateur Championship in Lancashire, following his polished opening 66 at Hillside with a 75 at Southport & Ainsdale.

That left him on two-under, the cut-off mark for the top 64 and ties, with Scottish champion Oli Mukherjee and Matthew Wilson progressing a bit more comfortably. Flying the Loretto flag, Mukherjee shot rounds of 68-71 for four-under, one better than Forres man Wilson after his efforts of 69-71.

Scottish-born Australian Josh Greer passed the test in impressive style after picking up five birdies in the first six holes in his second-round 66 at Hillside for a nine-under total.

South African Ben Van Wyk secured the medallist honours on 11-under after backing up an opening 64 at Hillside with an equally-impressive 68 at Southport & Ainsdale.