North Otago headed a field of 21 teams to emerge as the champion club for 2011 after winning the gross stableford competition on the Taieri Lakes course yesterday.
Brent McEwan (St Clair) brought to an end a Southland stranglehold on the Otago matchplay title by beating Cody Harper (Invercargill) on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff in the senior final at Balmacewen yesterday afternoon.
The stage is set for an Otago-Southland final this afternoon to decide this year's Otago matchplay champion on an immaculate Balmacewen course.
Canterbury finished with four points and 22.5 games to win the South Island women's interprovincial tournament over four rounds on the North Otago course in Oamaru during the weekend.
Australia took the honours and the Southern Cross Cup in the inaugural Four Nations tournament by 11 shots from New Zealand in the four-round strokeplay event which concluded on the Hills course in Arrowtown yesterday.
The honours belonged to New Zealand on the second day of the Four Nations Cup, as the top four amateurs gained six shots on the leading Australian team in bitterly cold, windy and wet conditions on The Hills course in Arrowtown yesterday.
Australia took the honours on the first day of competition in the Four Nations Cup, played in a testing northeasterly wind on an immaculate Hills course in Arrowtown yesterday.
Otago teams had a clean sweep over the weekend, with the senior, masters (over-40) and under-21 teams all posting wins in fine conditions over 36 holes in the men's triangular tournament on the Wanaka golf course.
A sensational final round of 67 in trying conditions gave Vaughan McCall (Gore) a timely win in the Taieri Classic men's event played over 72 holes at Taieri Lakes during the weekend.
Brent McEwan (St Clair) continued his monopoly on the North Otago spring tournament, winning his fourth consecutive title at North Otago during the weekend.
Cody Harper (Invercargill) shot rounds of 67 and 72 to take the senior gross prize in the Wanaka men's tournament over 36 holes in Wanaka on Saturday.
St Clair will go forward to the provincial pennant final in South Otago on October 16 after beating North Otago 4-2 in the coastal final at St Clair on Saturday.
Consistency and the use of his trusty No 1 driving iron were the vital ingredients to Andrew Hobbs winning the Chisholm Park men's open tournament which was played over 36 holes in windy conditions at Chisholm Park yesterday.
Sam An (Titirangi) emerged as New Zealand's top junior when he won the national under-19 title on the Omokoroa course in Tauranga yesterday.
Sam An (Titirangi) is in a commanding position in the New Zealand Under-17 championship after adding a one-under-par 71 to Wednesday's 67 on the Omokoroa course in Tauranga yesterday.
St Peter's College (Cambridge) won the national intercollegiate title by five shots from St Bede's College (Christchurch) in Tauranga yesterday.
North Otago relished playing at home, beating Chisholm Park by a 5 to 1 margin in the semifinal of the Coastal pennant series which was played on the North Otago course on Saturday.
The final will be played towards the end of August when the Corstorphine golfers will meet either North Otago or Chisholm Park, which finished second and third respectively in the just-completed round robin.
With a 5-1 win over North Otago at St Clair on Saturday, the top St Clair team has taken command of this year's metropolitan senior A pennant competition with nine points.
Duncan Croudis confirmed yesterday he will leave Dunedin in August to take up a four-year golf scholarship at Iowa State University in the United States.
