Tournament for school golfers
The four St Bede’s College pupils who will represent Canterbury in the first New Zealand final of the National Provident Fund Inter-collegiate golf championship will have had a thorough preparation by the time the tournament starts at Manor Park, Hutt Valley, next Tuesday. Jason Sincock, Robert Mercer, Simon Murphy and Noel Chambers have not been inactive since winning the district competition by five strokes from Shirley Boys’ High School and Hornby High School in May. The four have been put through their swings on three occasions by the Coringa professional, Geoff Smart, who has given them valuable coaching, and they will all compete in the New Zealand junior and boys’ championships in Feilding at the week-end. More than 1000 secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls took part to find the 13 district qualifiers for the New Zealand final. Other South Island schools to advance to the final were Marlborough Boys’ College (Tasman), Timaru Boys’ High (Mid-South Canterbury), Otago Boys’ High and
Southland Boys’ High. The finalists will compete in teams of four over 36 holes and the championship will be started by the Mayor of Lower Hutt, Sir John Kennedy Good. Full support has been given to the tournament by the New Zealand Golf Association, which realises the need for such an event to bring New Zealand into line with developments overseas, where international golf starts from the age of 10 years. The executive director of the N.Z.G.A., John Bromley, said that youngsters were competing, and winning, big tournaments in Europe. “In Australia, the A.G.U. tournament for schoolboys is well established, and an airline is sponsoring a teenage tournament which is now being run throughout Europe.
“This new national contest for New Zealand youngsters will have a big influence on the future choice of junior representatives to go overseas, and will enable national selectors to pick the latent talent. We have got to start young if we are to compete at world level in future,” Mr Bromley said.
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