Golf: Scotland slump to wooden spoon

SCOTLAND somehow managed to snatch defeat by Ireland from the jaws of victory on the final day at Cork Golf Club on the sunny southern coast of Ireland.

Playing the other pointless team with only the wooden spoon at stake, Scotland looked set for their first match win in the series since they won the title in 2010 when they made a 3-0 clean sweep of the foursomes at Cork.

But the Scots, who had been a shade unlucky to lose to England on Thursday, went completely off the boil in the afternoon singles. Kelsey MacDonald, Rachael Watton, Laura Murray, Eilidh Briggs and Alyson McKechin all lost, leaving 16-year-old Lauren Whyte as Scotland’s lone winner in the team’s shambles of a singles performance. She beat Lucy Simpson by 2 and 1.