The leading senior women golfers in Scotland and Ireland will be in action at Cruden Bay this weekend in the annual match for the Mary McKenna Salver.
The 2008 West Vets Champion May Hughes is in the Scottish Team and we wish her and the team every success
Mary McKenna, eight times Irish champion who played in nine successive Curtis Cup matches and is the current Great Britain & Ireland team captain, is just one member of a very strong Irish team of over-50 year olds.
The Scots, captained by home-course player Lynne Terry, are bidding for a hat-trick of victories having won the match in 2007 and 2008. The Irish have not won the trophy since the first three years of the competition - 2000, 2001 and 2002 - but with the players who have made the trip to the classic Cruden Bay links - where Ireland won the women's home internationals title in 1980 and 2003, they will start slight favourites to take the salver back to the Emerald Isle.
Play starts at 11am on Saturday (four-balls) and Sunday (singles).
Teams:
SCOTLAND
Heather Anderson (Northern), Lorna Bennett (Midlands), Fiona De Vries (Midlands), Jill Harrison (Northern), May Hughes (West), Fiona Hunter (East), Mary Smith (Highland), Kathleen Sutherland (Northern). Captain: Lynne Terry (Northern).
IRELAND
Valerie Hassett (Ennis), Marilyn Henderson (West Rhine), Helen Jones (Strabane), Mary Madden (Ballinasloe), Violet McBride (Belvoir Park), Sheena McElroy (Grange), Mary McKenna (Donabate), Pauline Walsh (Headford). Captain: Roma English (Larne).
