2022 Prebble Cup and Tolich Trophy Winners Found

2022 Prebble Cup and Tolich Trophy Winners Found

Sunday, 16th October at Tahuna Golf Club gathered the Prebble Cup and Tolich Trophy finalists come to battle it out. This year, hoping to take home the Prebble Cup, we had Ngahinepouri who last won this event back in 2017.   They were matched up against St Alexander whom haven't had the priviledge of taking home the Prebble Cup Trophy since 2001 so they had their game faces on and weren't going to take it easy.  It was a battle from the start with both teams finishing tied after the foursomes in the morning, 2 all.  The afternoon is where the pressure started to hit St Alexander.  The teams fought it out right to the last hole but Ngahinepouri were the stronger team on the day.  

Ngahinepouri Team: Pictured back left to right: Steve Missen, Andrew Galbraith, Peter Walker, Davy Schrijvers and Ed Dentice, Front left to right: Ray Foster, Malcolm Jacobs & Haki Walker.

In the Tolich Trophy, a Plate Tournament played for by the annual first round Prebble Cup  competition losers, Hauraki faced Matamata.  Matamata has the experience of winning in prior years but Hauraki hasn't yet held either the Prebble Cup, where they were runner up in 2021 to Tahuna nor the Tolich Trophy.  The morning round had Matamata leading 3/1 after the foursomes.  Hauraki favoured the singles and made Matamata work for every point.  In the end it wasn't quite enough to stop Matamata who went on to win 7/5.