The finals for Manawatu Wanganui Men’s Grade Pennants plus the Women’s Championship and Weekend Pennants were played were played recently with fine but damp conditions.

Weekend Women played their 7th and final Round Robin round at Palmerston North and although the Feilding team couldn’t be beaten they were out to prove a point and that they did.

The team on the day of Zarah Lynch and Samantha Johnson achieved their win over Rangitikei Gold getting them to 6.5 contest points ahead of the three teams sitting on 4 points.

On the three on 4 points Pahiatua came in 2nd on match points countback followed by Manawatu then Wanganui.

Those that qualified for their pennant final played at Marton with some very tight matches.

The Women’s Championship final was played between Wanganui and Manawatu Red. The Trophy winners for 2023 were Wanganui and the Raj sisters and although Lisa and Leander, Manawatu Red, gave them a good run for their money in the afternoon singles Tara and Sera won 3 -0.

A very tight final was had in the A Pennant final. After the morning foursomes sitting 1.5 each the afternoon was going to be similarly tight.

Coming in 3 all in the afternoon a playoff was required between the number ones (Ryan Rooney, Feilding and Sam Nicholls, P. Nth) Feilding picked up the trophy after a win on the 1st play-off hole. 

The B Pennant final between Manawatu and Marton had Marton winning 2 –1 in the morning round and picking up the afternoon singles 4.5 – 1.5. Marton therefore have won the B Pennant for 2023.

Another tight final was had and this time between Feilding and Levin in the C Pennant. The morning round had Levin up 3 – 0 but the afternoon was a different story with Feilding coming back with 4.5 – 1.5 in the singles.

Again, a Play-off was required between the number ones ( Adrian Burns Levin and Scott Donald Feilding). It wasn’t until the 3rd play-off hole that Feilding prevailed winning the C Pennant for 2023.

Castlecliff and Manawatu were playing off for the D Pennant 18-hole final. In 2022 the D Grade was played as a Round Robin but for 2023 there were two divisions with the winner of each division playing off for the Pennant.

This was won by Manawatu 5-1