PAST CURTIS CUP PLAYERS MATCH --- THE SCOTS AND IRISH WIN

FLASHBACK to last week's Curtis Cup match and the Past Players' Match which helped to raise the curtain for the 37th encounter.  The former Curtis Cup players who travelled to Nairn were split into two teams - Scotland and Ireland versus The Rest (who included United States stalwart Carol Semple Thompson who has made most appearances in Curtis Cup matches, both as a player and as a captain).The Scotland/Ireland team won the Neville Trophy and they have pride of place in the above picture taken on the steps of The Nairn clubhouse.


 Past Curtis Cup Players Match played on Thursday 7th June -- This is the Neville Trophy, won by the Scots/Irish players from the USA/England/Wales/ -- Thanks go to Mary McKenna for the photograph and Colin Farquharson for the report . (Renfrewshire's Wilma Leburn and Maureen Richmond were both playing)

CAPTION (back row first, then descending, names left to right); 

Ada O'Sullivan (Ireland), Anne Laing (Scotland), Margaret Pickard (England), Maureen Madill (Ireland).

Suzanne Cadden (Scotland), Maureen Richmond (Scotland), Jill Thornhill (England), Lady Angela Bonallack (England)

Linda Bayman (England), Claire Hourihane (Ireland), Bridget Jackson (England), Diane Bailey (England)

Breanne Loucks (Wales), Vivien Saunders (England), Ann Howard (England), Carole Semple Thompson (United States)

Ita Butler (Ireland), Wilma Leburn (Scotland), Mary McKenna (Ireland), Elaine Farquharson-Black (Scotland), Gillian Stewart (Scotland).