Metro, Central, Coast and Country

Most of Otagos best Men, Master and Women players came together recently at Taieri Lakes Golf Course for their annual fixtures and players were greeted with cool condition at the lakes course.

Women’s Coastal v Country

Yoonae Jeong helped lead the Country Women to a win over the Coastal team and turning last year’s result around, with wins from Helen Henshall, Belinda Scott, Nikkie Shaw and Raewyn Devlin to take a 5-3 lead into the afternoon foursome matches.

Three of the foursome matches went the distance with country winning two matches 1up and halving the other. Jeong and Amber Boyce made light work of Kim Fraser and Anahera Koni winning 6/5

Result Country 8.5 Coastal 3.5

Men’s Metro v Central

The selectors got what they wanted in the first fixture of the representative season with some great match up to test our top players. Central’s Ricky Kang showed why he is a top contender to play at high levels this year with a hard fought 1 up win over Jakob Bleach, Tory Scott also played well to beat the evergreen Brandon Hodgson but with only a halve between Callum White and Lewis Harper for the Central team it meant that the Metro Team held a healthy lead going into the afternoon matches.

Kang again got it done with another hard match winning 1 up over Parker Aluesi, Hodgson turn it around with a solid 4/3 win over Jason Mann. Troy Scott and Ben Patston could not be separated but again, that was all that central could muster. Big wins from the experienced Duncan Croudis and Phil Bungard made it final.

Results Morning Metro 5.5 Central 2.5, Afternoon Metro 6 Central 2

Final Results Metro 11.5 Central 4.5

Men’s Master Metro v Central

The Metro team was looking to avenge last year hiding and with names like McEwan, Giles, Kennelly, Andrews and Shaw in the side it would take a strong Central team to retain the trophy. The Central team was not short of names either with six from or current Otago master’s players. The morning matches Brent McEwan and Richard Andreson could not be spilt. Tony Giles went to the last to get up over Murray Studholme, Simon Boland made easy work of Mike Bowman who was late call up for Andrew Hobbs who had to pull out due to a miss hap with a log of wood the night before but with only one more win from Johann Schutte the Central team had work to do in the afternoon.

Wins for Central from Boland over Ken Shaw, Graeme Barbara over Jason Pegler, and Rodney Krahenbring big win over Giles set the stage for a fight back. But with 6/5 wins for McEwan and Brett Kennelly, Metro had one hand on the trophy. And when Metro’s Blair Liffiton walked off the final green with a win over Andreson, it was Metro’s ;

Results Morning Metro 5.5 Central 2.5, Afternoon 4-4 

Final Result Metro 9.5 Central 6.5