Golfers face dash to tee
PA Auckland Sandy Lyle, Gordon Brand junior and Ronan Rafferty face a desperate dash from Auckland airport to the first tee at the Titirangi Golf Club for the Carragreen $6OOO shootout today. Because Sunday’s abandoned fourth round of the Australian Open at Royal
Melbourne was played yesterday, the three British golfers face a tight race to get to the tee on time. Paul Gleeson, the coordinator for the $200,000 Air New Zealand Shell Open which follows the shoot-out, said the decision to proceed with the 10-man shoot-out was
made with the assistance of Rafferty. “He was working on our behalf without being asked,” Mr Gleeson said yesterday. Lyle, Brand and Rafferty were paired together yesterday with a tee time of 12.15 p.m. local time. They will fly from Melbourne to Sydney today,
catching a flight due in Auckland at 2.30 p.m. Cars will be waiting at the airport to take them to Titirangi for the 3.30 p.m. start. “If necessary, we will delay the start for a few minutes but if it is obvious that they cannot make it, then we will have three players standing by.”
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