SCOTTISH Golf has selected nine players for the Fairstone Men’s Home Internationals at Nairn next month.

And included in the team is on-fire Peebles player Craig Howie.

A final two selections are still to be made after next week’s Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship at Royal Aberdeen.

Teenager Sandy Scott, sitting second on the Men’s Order of Merit, is the only automatic qualifier for the team and will now tee up for his country over his home course from August 10 to 12.

Scott is joined by two of his European Amateur Team-winning team-mates in Howie and Jamie Savage (Cawder).

Kirkhill’s Craig Ross, the South African Amateur champion, and Barry Hume from Haggs Castle, the Welsh Open Amateur Stroke Play winner, are also included, while Kilmacolm’s Matthew Clark has secured a fifth straight Home Internationals appearance.

Turnhouse’s Euan McIntosh, aged 47, who will represent Scotland in the Home Internationals 27 years after making his previous appearance at Ganton in 1989.

McIntosh, a former professional who only returned to Scotland in April after 20 years away, said: “I’m absolutely delighted, as excited as I was back in 1989. It was fantastic to see the email saying I was in.

"I’m enjoying competing again and it’s been great playing with the younger guys coming through. If it hadn’t been for Colin Brooks at Braid Hills, who has helped massively with my game, I certainly wouldn’t have had the chance to be playing at Nairn.”

Scotland is bidding to land the Men’s Home Internationals crown for the first time since they triumphed at Gailes Links in 2012.

There was further joy for the Howie family as younger brother Craig will also pull on a Scotland shirt for the Boys’ Home Internationals.

Craig will be aiming to help the Scots defend their title at Ballyliffin Golf Club in Ireland.