Ross Whyte believes his rink needs to be representing Scotland on the world curling championships this 12 months after efficiently defending their nationwide title.
Whyte and his team-mates beat Bruce Mouat’s Olympic medallists 8-3 in Saturday’s last in Dumfries.
Group Mouat had been world champions in 2023 and runners-up on the 2022 Olympics.
The vastly skilled Mouat, 30, additionally has world silver and bronze in his assortment, together with 4 European golds.
“Hopefully get chosen for the world championships, that might be good,” stated Whyte, when requested about ambitions for 2025.
“We really feel like we have put ourselves in an excellent place.
“We’re displaying consistency and really feel like we must always positively be placing these Scotland jerseys on.”
Whyte, 26, was an alternate in Group Mouat for the 2019 and 2021 world championships, with this 12 months’s occasion happening in Moose Jaw, Canada, on the finish of March.
Group Mouat led 3-1 after six cagey ends in Dumfries however Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean and Euan Kyle avenged their solely round-robin lack of the week by storming straight again to assert three.
Mouat was then compelled to surrender a pair of two-shot steals and the competition was over earlier than the ultimate finish.
“It wasn’t simply in Scotland folks had been speaking about this sport – they had been speaking about it world wide,” Whyte added.
“So we knew we had been going to have to come back out and play properly to beat the primary crew on the planet and that is what we did and we felt we deserved it this week.
“We all know we’re a top-three, top-five crew on the planet. We actually imagine in ourselves, the outcomes are beginning to come our approach and it simply feels superb.”
