The inaugural Aorangi Matchplay was held at Geraldine Golf Club on Sunday July 30. 

Another stern frost met players which saw times delayed to 10.00am. In order to get the 36 holes necessary to play, matches went out in twosomes under sunny skies with next to no wind around. The results of the morning matches are below:

Men's Championship
Damian Rodgers beat Alex Kelliher (20 holes)
Travis Cook beat Dave Morrison (2/1)
Women's Championship
Ginny Bolderston beat Jennifer Shepherd (2/1)
Deanna Matthews beat Angela Gerken (2up)
Men's Masters Championship
Matt Morrison beat Nigel Heney (2/1)
John McBeath beat Hamish Niles (1up)
Men's Plate
Michael Anderson beat Logan Middlemas (5/4)
Marcus Tessier beat Aiman Muner (1up)
Women's Plate
Trish Crump beat Shelley Flintoft (1up)
Men's Masters Plate
Shane Moore beat John Smitheram (4/3)
Regan Stills beat Terry Kingsbury (5/4)

The feature match of the morning was definitely in the Men's Championship between Alex Kelliher and Damian Rodgers which needed extra holes to be decided. Both players calmly parred the first hole before Damian pounced on the par 5 second with a birdie to claim the match. He met Travis in the final who took down Dave Morrison in a tight match. In the Women's two tight matches decided our finalists with Ginny Bolderston and Deanna Matthews winning on the seventeenth and eighteenth respectively. In the Men's Masters, Matt Morrison stood up and beat one of Aorangi's best players in nigel Heney on the seventeenth hole whilst John McBeath showed his class in taking down Hamish Niles on the eighteenth. A quick lunch and turnaround and our players were back out and competing for the crown Matchplay title in Aorangi. The results from the finals are below:

Men's Championship
Travis Cook beat Damian Rodgers (4/2)
Women's Championship
Ginny Bolderston beat Deanna Matthews (2/1)
Men's Masters Championship
Matt Morrison beat John McBeath (4/3)
Men's Plate
Marcus Tessier beat Michael Anderson (5/4)
Women's Plate 
Jessie Mercer beat Trish Crump (1up)
Men's Masters Plate
Regan Stills beat Shane Moore (6/5)