Golfers should keep trophy

Press, 19 August 1978, Page 56

Golfers should keep trophy

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BOB SCHUMACHER

Canterbury’s all-round strength should ensure that it keeps the Smallbone Trophy when it plays MidSouth Canterbury in their annual golf match at the Brandon course, Ashburton, tomorrow. Last season Mid-South Canterbury gave its best performance for four years and it was only the superior depth of the Canterbury team that enabled it to win, 20-12. In the top eight positions, Mid-South Canterbury finished ahead, B|-7J, but the combined side* could only manage three and a half

[points from the possible 16 in the bottom half. Bruce Taylor will lead Canterbury in what will probably be his last representative appearance this season. He and the Canterbury No. 2, Geoff Saunders, have a debt to settle with the youthful Robbie Bell, who lowered the top Canterbury pair last year. Simon Robinson looked in good form against BullerWestland last week-end. He will be at three, with Mark Street at four. Street has been preferred ahead of Dennis Beggs and his older brother, Stephen, both of whom were Freyberg representatives.

I Four Canterbury players won. both matches last year, but only Murray Brown has held his place in the team. Noel Bain is in the reserves and Neville Griffiths and John Prebble were not selected. However, the Canterbury team is very experienced with only the big-hitting Waitikiri junior Stephen Pai terson, making his senior debut. Paterson claimed the sixteenth position but his selection was well warranted after his wins against Robinson and Beggs in the Woodward Cup club competition this season.