Masters Men defend their title in the deep south

The Canterbury Men’s Masters have come away with the Masters South Island Interprovincial title after overcoming their South Island counterparts in Invercargill this weekend. Playing at the venue that will be hosting the NZ Freyberg tournament in mid-November the event provided a great opportunity for all teams to familarise themselves with the course against competitive opposition.

Round 1 saw Canterbury take on Aorangi Golf, who we had played just a few weeks earlier in Ashburton coming away with a narrow victory on that occasion, however the margin was far more convincing this time around with the team coming away with a clean sweep opening 6-0 win. Leon Yee and Andrew Green recording 2/1 wins at the top of the order with Glenn Coughlan winning well 4/3 at the bottom of the order. In round 2 on Saturday afternoon we faced the hosts Southland who would be looking to use home course advantage to their favour. However, the Canterbury men came away with another convincing victory coming out 5-1 winners with Aaron Forsyth winning in style 7/6 playing at number 3. Jason Sincock, James Howard, Andrew Green, and Glenn Coughlan also winning to make it 2 from 2 for all on the day.

Onto day 2 and the final round, we came up against an always strong Otago outfit, who with themselves being undefeated on day 1 fancied themselves to take the title if they could prevail. Canterbury’s strong form continued however with the men rising to the occasion to win out 4-2. Aaron Forsyth again with a strong showing winning 7/6 with both Jason Sincock and James Howard coming away with narrow 1up victories alongside Glenn Coughlan’s solid 3/2 win. The team win rounding off a successful three from three during the tournament to claim the trophy with by 1.5 points alongside 15 individual wins.