A Millport golfer is once again taking part in a battle with the Auld Enemy in a Ryder Cup style match.

Jim Thomson has been selected for the Scottish Disability Golf side have just been selected to face the English at annual encounter at the Cardrona Resort & Hotel near Peebles next month.

The event will take place from Sunday 11 through to Wednesday 14 September and will consist, much like the Ryder Cup, of foursome, fourball and singles match play competitions.

Players, selected from the Scottish Order of Merit Championship Tables, and representing all disability categories, will travel from across the UK to compete for Team Scotland.

Team Captain, Alan Robertson from Stirling said, “Scotland will try to defend the title, after we won the Auld enemies Cup down at the Shire Golf club in London in 2014 by a good margin. I have picked a good squad, so lets hope we can win it convincingly and send them homeward to think again”!

Jimmy Thomson told the ‘News’ he is lucky to be alive after a freak road accident left him as an amputee, and was honoured to be selected as one of the baton bearers for the Queen’s Relay in the Commonwealth Games.

Jim, 72, of Golf Road, lost the lower half of his left leg below the knee, after a horror accident on the A760 Haylie Brae over four years ago.

The islander was involved in last year's victorious team which overcame the Auld Enemy, and more recently, triumphed in the inaugural Lynne Cairns Memorial Shield earlier this summer.