It was one-horse affairs for both the men and the women at the South Island Strokeplay Championships at St Clair Golf Club in Dunedin.
The men’s division was won by Mark Hutson from North Harbour. He reeled off rounds of 65, 69, 66 and 66 to finish at 18 under par and win by five shots.
The women’s competition saw Amelia Garvey from Canterbury street her rivals. Garvey’s final round was a disappointing 79 but she was still able to win by 12 shots.
Garvey, who went into her final round with a whopping 19-shot lead, finished at 13 under par with scores of 68, 68, 68 and 79. She is from the Kaiapoi club in Christchurch.
Hutson, 20, is from the Muriwai Golf Club. The same club also provided the runner-up with Kevin Koong taking second.
Hutson has represented North Harbour in the past three Interprovincial Championships and his South Island Strokeplay win at the end of February continued some good recent form, having won the Auckland Strokeplay in November.

South Island Strokeplay scores

Scores from the South Island Strokeplay Championships held at St Clair Golf Club in Dunedin on February 25 and 26.
Men (par 71)
266 Mark Hutson (Muriwai) 65 69 66 66
271 Kevin Koong (Muriwai) 67 68 70 66
273 Tom Parker (Christchurch) 64 69 70 70
274 Matthew McLean (Harewood) 68 70 67 69
276 Inia Logan (Wakatipu Junior) 66 72 70 68, Jack Pierse (Ireland) 67 66 70 73
280 Sung Jin Yeo (North Shore) 74 72 65 69, Nic Kay (Coringa Inc.) 67 73 68 72
282 Jake Lee (Muriwai) 72 71 69 70
283 Ben Patston (Otago) 68 72 74 69, Kit Bittle (Wainui) 70 71 70 72, Oscar Cadenhead (Clearwater) 72 66 70 75
287 Jeremy Hall (Green Acres Country Club) 71 69 73 74
288 Andrew Drummond (Greenacres) 68 73 73 74
289 Robert Gregory (Harewood) 68 73 75 73
290 Scott Hellier (Gore) 75 70 75 70
291 Hiroki Miya (Russley) 77 68 73 73, Robbie Pierse (Ireland) 67 70 79 75
292 Reid Hilton (Russley) 76 74 71 71, Tommy Liu (Royal Auckland) 69 74 75 74
293 Sam Yoshifuji (Gulf Harbour Country Club) 75 73 73 72
294 James Hydes (Wainui) 74 75 72 73, Ben Turner (Otago) 72 78 69 75, Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora) 71 69 79 75, Leith Campion (Gore) 72 76 69 77
295 Dominic Brettkelly (Hororata) 77 73 74 71, Benjamin Baker (Russley) 74 72 77 72
296 Markopolo Fullepp (New Zealand) 69 78 77 72, Marcel Boet (Christchurch) 68 77 72 79
297 Shiv Sabherwal (Windross Farm Golf Course) 73 74 73 77
298 Chris Snow (St Clair) 75 74 76 73, James Cadenhead (Clearwater) 77 74 72 75
299 Joshua Bailey (Wakatipu Junior) 71 75 76 77
300 Jonathan Mackay (Lower Waitaki) 72 74 80 74, Matthew Crawford (St Clair) 70 70 80 80
301 Troy Ferguson (St Clair) 74 76 76 75, Jacob Roberts (Russley) 72 79 74 76
303 Conor Jamison (St Clair) 76 75 73 79
304 Brent Butler (Chisholm Links) 75 74 79 76, Callum Judkins (Wakatipu Junior) 74 76 77 77
305 Robert (Robbie) Bell (Ashburton) 76 75 77 77
307 Connor Ross (St Clair) 77 78 72 80
308 Daniel Arnesen (Roxburgh) 82 77 75 74, Joseph Hancock (Otago) 75 78 77 78
310 Zachary May (Russley) 79 81 77 73, Jack Turner (Wakatipu Junior) 78 75 80 77, Sungwoo Han (Queenstown) 74 78 80 78
311 Scott Clark (Otago) 76 77 79 79, Austin Hamilton (Kaiapoi) 75 72 84 80
312 Joshua Kalweit (Mossburn) 82 78 77 75, Mike Wray (Island Park) 77 76 78 81
313 Gregory Hey (Templeton) 75 78 79 81
314 Rory Williamson (Russley) 77 79 80 78, Jack Ryder (Weedons Country Club) 77 83 75 79
315 Katsuhiko Yoshifuji (Gulf Harbour Country Club) 76 76 84 79, Kyle Clark (Otago) 79 75 81 80, Rhian Hamilton (Weedons Country Club) 81 73 75
Women (par 74)
283 Amelia Garvey (Kaiapoi) 68 68 68 79
295 Juliana Hung (Russley) 78 73 72 72
305 Jeong Hyun Lee (Christchurch) 73 78 79 75
311 Yoonjeong Huh (Pakuranga) 74 81 76 80
313 Hillary O’Connor (Pegasus) 76 75 82 80
316 Olive Tapu (Christchurch) 83 80 76 77
327 Danielle Bailey (Wakatipu Junior) 84 85 83 75
332 Amy Weng (Russley) 83 81 84 84
335 Abigael Crawford (St Clair) 78 83 90 84
336 Angela Gerken (Invercargill) 83 84 87 82
341 Raewyn Devlin (Toko) 87 86 83 85
348 Madeleine May (Russley) 88 89 83 88
351 Joanna Booker (Millbrook Resort & Country Club) 89 88 88 86, Brenda Sutherland (Otago) 91 86 88 86
353 Jackie Hamilton (Cromwell) 92 87 84 90, Maria Arhanic (Arrowtown) 87 86 88 92
356 Sumin Kang (Wakatipu Junior) 88 86 91 91
366 Tracey Storer (Belleknowes) 95 89 88 94