Trials to find youth golfing team

Press, 15 January 1986, Page 9

Trials to find youth golfing team

PA Whangarei A team of six under-21 golfers will be chosen to contest the Australian junior inter-state golf tournament in Sydney at Easter. The six will be chosen from a squad of 10 which was named in Whangarei yesterday by the convener of the national selection panel, Mr Goldie Wardell. The squad is: Geoff Stephens, Glen Goldfinch, Martin Tumata (Auckland), David Woke (Bay of Plenty), Paul Cadogan (Waikato), Paul Devenport, Matthew Lane (Wellington), Elliott Boult, Stuart Thompson (Tasman), Wade Hoskin (Southland) . The squad will be trimmed to eight after trials at Manukau, Auckland, on February 1 and 2 and. the team will be named after a final trial in Wellington on February 15 and 16.

Five of the 10, Stephens, Goldfinch, Cadogan, Devenport and Boult, were in the side which represented New Zealand in last year’s event. Wardell also announced that . Brendon Fellows of Manawatu-Wanganui will represent New Zealand in the George Sanders Trophy under-18 world event in Sydney in mid-February. Northland's Michael Long, the winner of the national schoolboys event in Timaru last year, was two days too old to be considered for selection.

Long and Cadogan, who won the Commercial Union junior title at Timaru, will be sponsored to the New Zealand amateur championships at the Hutt course from April 13 by the New Zealand Golf Association.