Brent Paterson adds another golf honour

Press, 29 November 1985, Page 30

Brent Paterson adds another golf honour

Many honours have come the way of Brent Paterson in the last four years and lie achieved another of significance recently when he became the first person to win the Canterbury “Golfer of the Year” award for the second time. The decision cannot have been too difficult for the judges. Paterson had a wonderful Government Life tournament earlier this month, winning seven of his eight matches at No. 1. His outstanding efforts failed to attain victory for Canterbury, which lost the grand final to Waikato, 3-2, but he was chosen as the recipient of the Air New Zealand Trophy for the golfer who had contributed the most. Not long before the Government Life tournament, Paterson had led his club, Coringa, to its best placing (second) in the Woodward Cup premier inter-club championship, and he suf-

fered just one loss from 1 seven matches. In September, he represented New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific teams’ championship in Australia before losing to the eventual winner in the semi-finals of the Australian match-play championship. Last month Paterson was in his customary No. 1 spot as Canterbury won the

South Island inter-provincial tournament for the first time since 1980, and earlier in the year he Was in the side which tied for second, behind Southland, in that province’s annual invitation event at Otatara. Paterson, aged 25, finished fifth in the South Island stroke championship, eighth equal in the national . 72-hole stroke tournament and reached the quarterfinals of the New Zealand match-play championship. The unflappable Paterson first won the Canterbury “Golfer of the Year” award in 1982, the year in which he was unbeaten in his debut for Canterbury at the Freyberg Rose Bowl tournament. The Christopher Paterson Memorial Trophy for the Canterbury “Junior Golfer of the Year” was won by the talented Bruce Lavender, a captain of the province’s junior team. , The other main trophy awarded at the annual dinner for presidents (ind

secretaries of golf clubs in Canterbury, the P.G.F. Vardon Trophy, was also won by Paterson. He had a stroke average of 75.08 to narrowly head Paul Minifie, who averaged 75.56 in the nominated tournaments.

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