Formidable golf side

Press, 24 July 1987, Page 34

Formidable golf side

By

BOB SCHUMACHER

With four New Zealand representatives in the top five positions, Town can present a formidable front for the annual golf match against Country at Hororata on August 9. The odd man out in the leading line-up is the No. 4, Fred Poskitt, who won the Canterbury strokeplay championship and was the leading individual in the Southland invitational earlier this year. Canterbury’s two national representatives

for the Australian cham■pionships and international events against that country in September, Brent Paterson and John Crawford-Smith, are at No. 1 and No. 3, respectively.. A former New Zealand Eisenhower Trophy team member, John Williamson, the captain, is at No. 2, while Mark Street returns to competitive golf after a break of five months. The team, in playing order, is:— Senior: Paterson, Williamson (captain), Craw-

ford-Smith, Poskitt, Street, Ken Collett, Keith Mills, Lyndon Cron, lan Carruthers, Jon Hazeldine, Kerry Lake, Mark Tamuta, Paul Hansen, Steve Paterson, Brett Tucker, Neville Brightwell. Reserves: Richard Hurley, Andrew Bishop, Ross Jones, Richie Needham. Junior Jason Sincock (captain), Matthew Brownlee, Tony Christie, Anthony Woodgate, Alistair McCall, Hugh McLeod, Curtis Mercer, Hans Knutson, Andrew Hobbs, Shane Scott, lan Knott, Simon Murphy. Reserves: Grant Summerfield, Grant Williams, Patrick Fraher.