Jubilance

Jubilance. That is how the above picture was described in Germany today and Jubilance it will remain. Captain Pamela Williamson of Baberton will not sleep tonight. She has lived for this very day and this is her just reward. Her team contacted this website just to say what a fantastic captain she was. They also were full of praise for their manager Janet Wake of Merchants who could not do enough to ensure all the other requisites for a successful outcome were at hand - including the necessary bananas, nuts etc etc.

But the team! It is such a magnificent achievement. To be sixth seed after the stroke-play and beat the favourites and defending champions, Germany, on their home soil, next a very strong Irish team and then, the icing on the cake, the first seed, England - just says it all. Never mind the wonderful golf they produced, their faith in themselves must have been overpowering. Many games were rescued from seeming disaster simply with patience and determination. What else is there to say. We are so proud of you.

To return to the actual match, the first point on the board came from our foursomes pairing Moira Thomson and Mary Smith who had three points out of three but this was probably the sweetest victory. The next game went England's way. Fiona de Vries had been four down to the English Champion, Caroline Marron at the turn but had been quite unable to reverse the situation, eventually losing at the 14th. The next game happily was ours when Lorna Bennett playing the formidable Chris Quinn, hung on grimly to her slender one hole lead at the turn, all the way to the 18th hole. Two points to Scotland.

The next match between Heather Anderson and Roz Adams followed the path of the second game in that Heather was four down at the turn and sadly failed to make inroads into this disparity, also losing at the fourteenth. Roz was the English player who had had a hole in one in the qualifying rounds and had had a very successful tournament. At this point the captain must have been chewing her nails. Two games each.

The final game was between Anne Ryan and Sue Dye. This championship was Anne's maiden voyage into the international scene. And now the outcome of the match rested on her shoulders. But they were clearly broad enough as was her ability to not only hang on to her two hole lead at the turn but to increase it, sinking her putt at the 16th to win her match and indeed gold for Scotland.