Forrester Park Golf Club is preparing to host this year’s Scottish Boys’ Area Team Championship event, which is set to take place on 17 September this weekend.
The Championship event will see competing Areas, represented by four players each, battle it out over 36 holes with the tournament consisting of a combination of morning foursomes and afternoon singles matches before the winning Area is crowned.
Last year the North East team were the competing Area to lift the trophy at the tournament, which was hosted at Gleddoch GC, with the Niagra Cup awarded to Fife’s Alex North as the leading individual in the Championship event. With the exception of Argyll & Bute all of the other Areas will be fielding teams for this year’s Championship event at Forrester Park GC.
Some familiar faces as well as trophy winners are present in the teams, including players like Finlay Galloway (St Andrews representing Fife), who won the 2022 Scottish Boys’ U16 Championship, whilst Koby Buchan (Cruden Bay representing North East) has recently won the Junior Tour Arbroath in July.
Buchan’s teammate Scott Spark (Newmachar representing North East), alongside Aidan Lawson and Jake Johnston (Bruntsfield and Royal Burgess GS representing Lothians) and Brodie Cunningham (Bothwell Castle representing Lanarkshire) have all recently been called up for international duty, representing Scotland at the 2023 Home Internationals at Lindrick, England earlier this season.
The team and players competing in the 2023 Championship are as follows:
ANGUS
Finlay Bonnar, Finlay Elrick, Finlay Hazelwood, Reece Kerrigan
AYRSHIRE
Ryan Kennedy, Scott Newman, Findlay Watt, Connor Wills
BORDERS
Cameron Brydon, Gregor Brydon, Lyle Gillie, K Martin
CLACKMANNANSHIRE
Liam Brown, Jack Foley, Glen Macdonald, Ryan Thompson
DUMBARTONSHIRE
Fergus Alan, Chris Clark, Stewart Forrest, Sam Somerville
FIFE
Tayio Ezaki, Ewan Farquhar, Finlay Galloway, Jamie McDonald
GLASGOW
Thomas Dunn, Bobby Gray, John Hamilton, Joseph Lynch
LANARKSHIRE
Michael Coulter, Brodie Cunningham, Joseph Kelly, Lewis Russell
LOTHIANS
Jake Johnston, Kai Laing, Aidan Lawson, James Wood
PERTH & KINROSS
Nicholas Bradley, Robbie Hepburn, Joe Ponton, Kieran Selby
NORTH
Fraser Brown, Scott Brown, Lewis Cameron, Alex Innes
NORTH EAST
OIi Blackadder, Callum Bruce, Koby Buchan, Scott Spark
RENFREWSHIRE
Ross Anderson, Stuart Brooksbank, Calum Clelland, Ethan Lang
SOUTH
Ben Carmichael, Murray Patterson, Adam Scott, Chris Wilson
STIRLINGSHIRE
Thomas Kelly, Kyle Hamilton, Luke McInulty, Cameron Russell.
Championship Host Venue, Forrester Park, is situated in 350 acres of Scottish Parkland and is located centrally between the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth. The par-72 course featuring meandering burns, water features and USGA designed greens, offers a real test to golfers of all levels.
Tee-times and live scoring for the event can be found on the tournament page here.
