Colin Dalgleish admitted on Saturday he faces an anxious wait before getting his Walker Cup planning properly under way.

The non-playing captain had just watched Callum Macaulay, the Scottish Amateur champion, sink the winning putt in the two-day, biennial match between GB&I and the Continent of Europe. However, as he prepares for the much more prestigious meeting with the USA next year, Dalgleish knows most of his nine-man team are looking to turn professional as soon as possible.

"Of the nine in the team six are going to the Tour School as amateurs with only Matthew Haines, Sam Hutsby and Chris Paisley definitely staying on," he explained.

"Obviously we wish them well but they will all make their decisions based on the quality of the card they manage to get and while no-one is guaranteed selection, I would think we might have a nucleus of five or six guys who would be part of the Walker Cup team."

Dalgleish will be at this week's Home Internationals to survey form and he will hope to see better individual performances, the scale of the 14-10 match win on Saturday having been down to the two rounds of foursomes which they collectively won 7-1.

He took particular satisfaction from how his decision to send Macaulay out first as the Scottish champion on Scottish soil worked perfectly, the Tulliallan man seeing off both Reiner Saxton, the Dutchman who won this season's British Amateur, and Stephan Gross, the German who won the European individual title.

His performance in winning three matches and halving one was matched by Hutsby, but he paid tribute to the only team-mate who bettered that, his fellow Scot Wallace Booth having won all four of his matches, finishing an approximate 15-under par in four rounds of foursomes and singles play.

"It was great to go undefeated and Wallace was brilliant as well," Macaulay said. "Seven and a half points out of eight between us was great and the fact it was in our own country made it even more special."

Michael Stewart, the Scottish Boys' champion who will line up alongside Booth and Macaulay in the senior Home Internationals, also returned to something approaching his best form as he captained the GB&I Boys to victory over their continental counterparts in the Jacques L'Eglise Trophy over the same course.

Now based in the USA, the Troon teenager flew back in midweek and lost both his matches on Friday as his side slipped 7-5 behind, but he won both his ties on Saturday as they powered back to win 14-10.