Booth wants to follow the family path to success Published on Thursday 10 May 2012 03:25 HAVING taken great delight in seeing his little sister Carly win the Ladies Scottish Open last weekend, Wallace Booth is now hoping to generate some headlines of his own by making the most of a rare Challenge Tour start in France this week. Like his sibling, Wallace enjoyed a successful amateur career, the highlight of which was joining forces with Gavin Dear and Callum Macaulay to record Scotland's first Eisenhower Trophy triumph, making them world champions, in Australia in 2008. The powerful Perthshire player also represented Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup at Merion the following year, turning professional soon after that and making his debut in the paid ranks in the Dunhill Links Championship. Those were exciting times for Booth, but the dark clouds started to roll in as his first two full seasons were virtually wiped out by a niggling shoulder injury. It's been a slow recovery for the 26-year-old former Scottish Stroke-Play champion, but, at long last, he is back playing competitively again. Over the past fortnight, he has had back-to-back events on the PGA EuroPro Tour, finishing 18th at Lingfield Park last week, and is now among eight Scots in the field for the Challenge Tour's Allianz Brittany Open staring today. "I received an invitation for this week's, so I am delighted to have the opportunity," Booth told The Scotsman. But I am even more delighted to be playing again pain-free. I am almost back to full fitness, so have been able to practise for longer and play more golf recently. This will be my third week in a row of tournaments, which shows good signs of my health. While Wallace may have lived in the shadow of his sister since she became Britain's youngest club champion at 11, he was delighted to see the 19-year-old firmly in the spotlight after her title triumph at Archerfield Links on Saturday. The pair have played and practised together on the course built for them by their dad, Wally, on the family farm at Comrie, so it was also pleasing for Wallace to see his sister find her true form after a sluggish start to her professional career. "She is an unbelievable talent and the whole family were buzzing all weekend after she won," he added. It is a fantastic achievement for her. We are all so proud of her and hopefully this will be what she needed to really push on now and show her full potential. It should hopefully open a lot of doors for her with regard to getting in the biggest events. It already has, with Booth having secured spots in both the Evian Masters in France and the Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Liverpool later in the year.