Scots fail to make Junior Ryder Cup side

THE first staging of the Junior Ryder Cup in Scotland will take place at Gleneagles in September without a representative of the host nation in the European team.

The 12-strong side was finalised following the European Young Masters in Hungary and no Scottish player has either qualified automatically or earned one of the two wild cards handed out by captain Gary Stangl.

Comrie's Carly Booth flew the Saltire in the last two matches but the decision was made easy for Stangl following some disappointing displays by Scotland's leading contenders, notably in the European Boys' Team Championship in Turkey earlier this month.

"It would have been good to have had a Scot or more in the team but, unfortunately, the under-18 boys did not perform as well as we'd hoped in the European Championship," said Hamish Grey, chief executive of the Scottish Golf Union.

"This is the first year the team has been a mix of under-16s and under-18s and the under-16 players came off the European Young Masters.

"It's quite tough when it's based on one event and if it had been last year Callum Stewart of Brora would have got in."