After months of waiting for a decision from New Zealand Golf on the future of its major tournament, The Hills hopes it may host the New Zealand Open again in 2012, general manager Sam Gent says.
It was assumed the battle for hosting rights for the next New Zealand Open would be between two golf course-owning millionaires. But the real clash seems to be between one of those men and the tournament's promoter.
It is hard to put a price on loyalty. New Zealand Golf would do well to reflect on that as it considers the future of what has been, since 2007, the Michael Hill New Zealand Open.