The Men's and Women's Manawatu Wanganui Strokeplay ended in contrasting ways and conditions.  Tara Raj extended her overnight lead to win by five shots before the rain came, while Sam Jones and Mitchell Kale had to go four extra holes in the rain to determine the winner.

Raj celebrated her inclusion into the Golf New Zealand Academy by defending the Manawatu Wanganui Strokeplay Championship, by shooting a closing round of 3 under 70 to finish the tournament on -10.  Rebekah Blackwell-Chin finished runner up by shooting a closing 71 to finish on -5.  Amy Han finished tied third with Grace Zhan, and in the process joined Raj and Blackwell-Chin as a course record-holders by shooting a closing 4 under 69.  Chloe Lam rounded out the top five by finishing on -2.

On the Men's side, early pressure was put on the leaders with Ryan Rooney shooting a 70, matched by Daniel Freeman.  Rooney ended up finishing fourth with an even-par score of 210 and Freeman third on one-under 209.

Mitchell Kale produced the round of the tournament to go back and forth holding the lead with overnight leader Sam Jones.  Kale held a one-shot lead after thirteen holes only for Jones to birdie 15 and 16 to take a one-shot lead up the last.  Jones bogeyed 18 to send both players into a sudden-death playoff as the rain that came in late in the round started to get heavier.  It took four holes to separate the players with Jones prevailing and winning the Challenge Cup, which has been contested since 1901 and keeping it in the family as his brother Ethan won tournament last year.