Scotland's Sammy Vass pitches to the 18th, having had a lift and drop from the casual water you can see on the 18th fairway. Sammy and Annabel Niven lost by two holes to Rachel Connor and Heidi Baek. Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved). You can enlarge it by clicking on it.

England make clean sweep of foursomes v Scotland

England took a stranglehold on the outcome of their Day 2 match against Scotland when they made a clean sweep of the three morning foursomes on a wet and windy morning at Panmure Golf Club.
Holly Barwood, the English women’s champion, and Holly Clyburn beat the top Scots pairing of Carly Booth and Kelsey MacDonald by 4 and 3 in a tie that started off with an exchange of birdies.
The English birdied the first and the Scots birdied the second but Barwood and Clyburn regained their one-hole lead with a par at the third.
Holes six to eight held the key to the outcome of this match. England birdied the sixth and also won the next two to establish a four-hole advantage after eight holes.
Booth and MacDonald halted the slide by halving the next four holes and winning the 13th to be three down. But Barwood and Clyburn went four up again by winning the 14th and a half at the next ended the contest.
England increased their lead to 2-0 with a 4 and 3 win by Kelly Tidy and Alexandra Peters over Annabel Niven and Lesley Atkins who came in as a replacement for hayfever victim Eilidh Briggs.
The English pair never looked back after birdieing the second and third to go two up.
Niven and Atkins twice reduced their deficit to one hole through holes four to ten but Tidy and Peters won the 12th, 14th and 15th , the latter two holes with bogeys, to wrap up a victory.
England were well on their way to avenging last year’s 7 ½-1 ½ defeat by the Scots when they increased the lunchtime scoreline to 3-0 with a one-hole win by Rachel Connor and Heidi Baek over Rebecca Wilson and Sammy Vass.
Connor and Baek took the second with a birdie and the third with a par but lost the fifth, sixth and eighth as Wilson and Vass hit back. The English pair went from one down to three up with successes at the 12th, 13th and 14th.
The Scots won back the 16th on a concession but Connor and Baek won the last to finish two holes up.
The Maguire twins were in good form as Ireland took the foursomes 2-1 against Wales.
Leona and Lisa beat Gemma Bradbury and Chloe Williams by 4 and 3 after turning with a four-hole lead. The Welsh pair won the 10th and 14th but wins at the 13th and 15th tied up an Irish victory.
Ireland’s Stephanie Meadow and Sarah Louise Winter won the second foursome by 5 and 4 after losing the first hole to Kelly Miller and Natasha Gobey. By the 10th, the Irish had surged into a four-hole lead. They lost the 11th but Meadow and Winter came again to win the 13th and 14th for the match.
Wales’ third string of national girls champion Amy Boulden and Katherine O’Connor were never in arrears after winning the second and fourth. Sarah Cunningham and Emma O’Driscoll won the fifth but the Welsh pair took the eighth and ninth to be three up at the turn. They lost the 10th but won the 14th

The Irish pair mounted a late rally by winning the 16th and 17th to be one down coming down the 18th. Boulden and O'Connor won the last for a two-hole victory.

FOURSOMES RESULTS

ENGLAND lead SCOTLAND 3-0
H Barwood & H Clyburn bt C Booth & K MacDonald 4 and 3.
R Connor & H Baek bt R Wilson & S Vass 2 holes.
K Tidy & A Peters bt A Niven & L Atkins 4 and 3.

IRELAND lead WALES 2-1
Leona & Lisa Maguire bt G Bradbury & C Williams 4 and 3.
S Meadow & S L Winter bt K Miller & N Gobey 5 and 4.
S Cunningham & E O'Driscoll lost to A Boulden & K O'Connor 2 holes.