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.
The Oamaru trio of Michael Ormandy (senior), Richard Knight (intermediate) and Kris Rush (junior) finished with a total of 86 stablefords to finish eight points ahead of St Clair.
The success over St Clair was sweet revenge after North Otago lost the coastal pennant final to St Clair two months ago.
It was a consistent effort which led to the win, with Ormandy and Knight carding 29 points while Waitaki Boys' High School pupil Rush was 8-over-par for 28 points.
Following his Otago championship win last Monday, Brent McEwan had 75 off the stick for 33 points but Derek Elliot and Dion Johns only managed 23 and 22 points respectively.
In a bizarre twist, Queenstown was disqualified as, despite scoring a winning total of 90 points, the team played a junior on age at No 3 and not a junior champion.
Jamie Anstiss plays off a five handicap and was not eligible for the junior division despite carding the best score of the day a 73 for 35 gross stableford points.
Port Chalmers and Dunstan tied on 107 points in the handicap division but the Alexandra side took the honours in a sudden-death playoff.
