Favoured teams lead golf

Press, 2 May 1984, Page 52

Favoured teams lead golf

PA Timaru The two teams which have won the national women’s inter-provincial golf title for the past eight years, Auckland and Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley, lead the field in this year’s Stylemaster tournament at the Levels course, near Timaru. After yesterday’s fourth round, they are the only teams with six points — and both have had the ' bye. Bay of Plenty won the ' title in the past three years, while Auckland won it in the five previous years. Before this tournament, the defending champions were not given a good chance of making it four in a row, having lost the No. 1 player, Brenda Ormsby. However, Jane Little, Cathy Greenback, Carroll, Jan

Cooke and Gaye McMillan are proving the critics wrong. In what could be the deciding match Bay of Plenty yesterday morning beat the fancied Otago team, 3-2, in a real cliffhanger, with four pairs finished and the match tied at 2-all. The No. 2 players, Shelley Duncan, of Otago, and Cathy Greenbank (Bay of Plenty) were all square coming to the last hole. Both were on the green for three, each with putts of about one metre. Duncan missed, and cheers from team-mates soon told the story that Greenbank had slotted her putt to give the side a valuable two points. With a number of upsets in the tournament so far, however, Otago can not yet be counted out. k fe

Auckland is really coming back as a top team, beating last year’s runners-up, Taranaki, in the afternoon, 4-1, after accounting for Canterbury by the same score in the morning. Results. — Auckland 4, Canterbury 1 K. Young beat M. Sparrow, 2 and 1; A. Hasey beat A. Bond, 3 and 1; K. Maxwell beat J. Ross, 1 up; P. King beat S. Boag, 4 and 2; J. Leech lost to J. Davidson, 2 and 1. South Canterbury 4, NelsonWest Coast-Marlborough 1 J. Kellahan lost to D. Randell, 6 and 5; S. Hutchins beat A. Rewita, 4 and 3; A. Seed beat M. Watt, 5 and 4; H. Hames beat R. Hannah-Parr 4 and 3; J. Knight beat E. Lankow, 2 and 1. Wellington 3, South Canterbury 2 D. Seiringer beat Kellahan, 3 and 2; M. Thompson lost to Hutchins, 2 and 1; J. Hanratty beat Seed, 3 and 2; T. Hanson lost to Hames, 2 and 1; C. Tonks beat Knight, 8 and 6.

Canterbury 4, Southland 1

Sparrow beat E. Douglas, 2 and 1; Bond beat G. Kenny, 1 up; Ross lost to K. Guttery, 2 and 3; Boag beat A. Mattingly, 2 and 1; Davidson beat W. Todd, 1 up. Other results — Morning round: ManawatuWanganui 4*A, Hawke’s BayPoverty Bay M; Wellington 2"A, Southland 2%; Taranaki 2te, Waikato-King Country 2t4; Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley 3, Otago 2. Afternoon round: Auckland 4, Taranaki 1; Waikato-King Country 3M, Northland IM; Otago 4, Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay 1; Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley 4M; Manawatu-Wan-ganui M. Points after four rounds: Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley 6 points (12‘/i games), Auckland 6 (11 Ms), Wellington 5 (9Mz), Otago 4 (11), Canterbury 4 (9Mi), South Canterbury 4 (9), Waikato-King Country 3 (8), Southland 3 (6'/i), Manawatu-Wanganui 2 (7V4), Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay 2 (7), Nelson-West Coast-Marl-borough 2 (4), Taranaki 1 (414), Northland 0 (4).