CHAMPION: Whyte Wins 2025 Hardie Engineering Scottish Curling Men's Championships

SKIP
Ross
Whyte

Third
Robin
Brydone

Second
Duncan
McFadzean

Lead
Euan
Kyle

Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) won 8-3 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Hardie Engineering Scottish Curling Men's Championships, held February 2 - 8, 2025 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Whyte won 8-4 over James Craik (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2025 Hardie Engineering Scottish Curling Men's Championships in Dumfries, Scotland, Scotland;

Whyte finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Whyte defeated Kyle Waddell (Stirling, SCO) 7-2, then won 9-3 against Ross Craik (Stirling, SCO) and 7-3 against Scotland's Arran Thomson. Whyte won 9-2 against Gavin Cameron (Moray, SCO), then won 10-4 against Cameron Bryce (Norder, SCO) and 8-3 against Craik. Whyte won 9-2 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO). Whyte went on to lose 9-8 against Mouat in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hardie Engineering Scottish Curling Men's Championships Championship title, Whyte earned 48.750 world rankings points. Whyte move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 27.75 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 310.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Whyte ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 310.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	51	22	0	0.699	16-1	5-4	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	520	437	286	8.40	5.50	2.90	4.50	3.90	1.87	1.41	1.60

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	255	364	49	36	18-2	29-1	66-5	1.43	0.19	0.52	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	265	73	237	47	1-0	2-8	13-54	0.28	0.89	0.63	0.19

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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