TWO past winners of the Tam O'Shanter Trophy are in the Ayrshire side who will contest the 2018 Men's Area Team Championship at Cawder Golf Club from Friday until Sunday.

Jim Johnston (Ayr Belleisle) and Michael Smyth (Royal Troon) are joined by John Shanks (Irvine) Scott Brown (Prestwick St Cuthbert) Jack Broun (Ayr Belleisle) and Tommy McInally (Loudoun).

The six-man team will play strokeplay qualifying rounds on the opening day with the top eight teams progressing to the matchplay stages over the following two.

Jim is the current holder of the Ayrshire Strokeplay title and is rapidly becoming a familiar figure in Scottish golf, having had a number of notable finishes throughout the country in 2018.

Michael is the reigning Ayrshire Matchplay champion and has enjoyed a number of successes over the years in Ayrshire competitions, having won the Champion Of Champions trophy for the first time in 2017 to add to his four matchplay titles and two Doc Thom Order of Merit wins.

Tommy has won multiple Ayrshire trophies including five wins in the Champion Of Champions, three Ayrshire Strokeplay titles, and Ayrshire Matchplay win and a Doc Thom Ayrshire Order Of Merit title. He was also the winner of the West Of Scotland Strokeplay Championship when it was reintroduced in 2016.

Jim is the current holder of the Ayrshire Strokeplay title and is rapidly becoming a familiar figure in Scottish golf, having had a number of notable finishes throughout the country in 2018.

Scott won all three Ayrshire titles at boys level, with the Strokeplay, Matchplay and Order of Merit crowns, and has continued to perform well during his senior career with county title wins in the Ayrshire Matchplay and Champion Of Champions events.

Jack is a two-time winner of the Ayrshire Boys Championship and a winner of the Junior Order Of Merit title and is a current Scotland Boys internationalist.

He made his debut in the Men's Area team Championship in 2017, when he was a member of the Ayrshire team who contested the title at Dalmahoy and progressed to the matchplay stages.

John has won the Ayrshire County Strokeplay and Order of Merit titles at both boys and men's levels as well as winning the men's Matchplay title and Champion Of Champions trophy.