16-05-2025
Ayrshire sports team making history by representing Scotland on the world stage
Ayrshire FootGolf Club are the current national champions - and are set to take on the best in the world this weekend
An Ayrshire sports team will make history this weekend by becoming the first to represent Scotland on the world stage.
Scottish Champions Ayrshire FootGolf Club are competing in the World Club Trophy in France, where they will face off against the French and Swiss champions.
The side, who play their home games at Kilmarnock's Caprington Community Golf Club, will also play against a Hungarian side featuring the men's World Champion in the group stage.
The event takes place at Golf Club Domaine de Champlong, around 250 miles south of Paris, on Saturday and Sunday.
Their first match is against Servette, the champions of Switzerland, then they will play Hungarian side Kastélydombi - featuring 2023 Men's World Champion Bacskai Bence.
The last match is against French side Gessien, and should Ayrshire get through the group stage, they will play a play-off match against either Slovakian champions Nitra, French side Macon, Turkish team Ankara, or Hungarian champions Forest Hills.
Games are over 18 holes and are a mixture of singles and pairs matchplays, meaning the player who completes a hole in the least number of shots wins that hole and gains a point.
Should they triumph in the play-off, they will book their place in the finals of the competition, which take place in Devon, England, in August, and will feature teams from other continents across the globe.
A squad of seven from the 35-strong team was picked to make the journey to the town of Roanne, near Lyon, for the competition.
The team is made of up of captain John Grant and vice-captain Daniel Mains, Michael Kelly and serial Scotland internationalists Michael Eardley, Gavin Craig, David Quigley and Rory Cassidy, who all represented Scotland at the 2023 FootGolf World Cup in Orlando, Florida, with Gavin, Michael and Rory also playing for Scotland at FootGolf European Championships in Turkey last year.
