Canterbury Golf News
Canterbury Secondary Schools Golf Championship
The Canterbury Secondary Schools Golf Championship was played early last month at Waitikiri Golf Course in warm, sunny conditions and the course in great order.
37 players from 12 schools in the Canterbury region together with Ashburton and Mount Hutt College enjoyed a great days golf in perfect playing conditions.
The best team gross was won by the St Andrews College team of, from left Mika MacDonald, Maddie May, Seb May and Hayden Lam.
They were two shots clear of the Burnside High School 1 team of Amy Weng, Jasmine Clancy, Hayato Miya and Yuki MIya. Third on 250 were the Christchurch Boys High School team of Ed Dickinson, Mitchell Green, George Lamb and Rahil Krishna.
Individual honours were taken out by Maddie May with an excellent gross 68 (adjusted) and Annabelle Rushton-Pearce with a stunning net 41.
Results - 2020 E-Mega Store Canterbury Match Play Championships
Canterbury Match Play Champions played last month from left to right: Marty Holman (Seniors), Yoyo Fu (Womens), Greg Shepherd (Sponsor), Rhian Hamilton (Div 2), Cooper Moore (Boys U19), Andrew Dufton (Masters), Mike Toeke (Mens)
Futures Junior Open
A field of over 40 players enjoyed the Futures Junior Open event held at Rangiora Golf Club. Early last month
Twelve players aging in age from 5 to 12 enjoyed the 9 hole event played from the purple course. Scoring was very impressive with Selwyn Hub member Emma Harrison winning with 29 stableford points, one shot clear of fellow hub member Benji Willliams.
In the 18 hole event Lexi Thomson-Hall (Selwyn Hub) won the Girls Stableford with 39 points. Cooper Moore (Russley) won the U13 Boys gross with a 74 with Maadi Kirikiri (Christchurch) with the best stableford on 47 points from Louis Edwards (Avondale) on 42 points.
In the U16 & U19 Boys section the winning gross was Sam Harris (Russley) with 74 one shot clear of Yuki Miya (Russley). Simon Reid (Rangiora) won the stableford with 49 points from Rahil Krishna (Russley) on 42 points.