Paterson back in Canty golf team

Press, 4 February 1987, Page 72

Paterson back in Canty golf team

The return of Brent Paterson for Kerry Lake is the predictable change in the Canterbury golf team to compete in the tenth Southland invitational tournament at the Otatara cours, Invercargill, on March 7-8. Apart from that alteration, the five-man Canterbury side will be the same as that which was

a creditable third in the Government Life national tournament in Palmerston North last November.

Paterson, Canterbury’s No. 1 for the last four years, was representing New Zealand- in the Eisenhower Trophy world teams’ championship at that time.

Form in the Canter-

bury stroke championship at Waitikiri last week-end decreed that Paterson, who finished joint runner-up with Murray Brown, would return to the team in place of a disappointing Lake, the province’s No. 4 last season.

But the man who headed them all off, Fred Poskitt, ten times

Waimairi Beach champion, is only the nontravelling reserve. After winning the Canterbury title by three strokes, he must be considered unlucky not to make the team proper. But John Williamson, who did not have a happy time at Waitikiri, has a proven record in the Southland event,

twice winning the individual 72-hole gross aggregate. I

The team for the 72-hole event, regarded as the country’s premier stroke teams’ championship, is —

Paterson, John CrawfordSmith, Mark Street, Brown, Williamson. Reserve, Poskitt. Manager, Len McKenzie.