Hopes on home golf course
By
BOB SCHUMACHER
One of Canterbury’s best golfers, John Williamson, will be hoping that his home course, Shirley, will be good to him at the week-end when he competes alongside 15 of New Zealand’s best amateurs in the first national trial to determine the 1990 Eisenhower Trophy team. Next year’s world amateur teams’ championship will be held at Shirley, a course on which Williamson has played thousands of rounds, and two 72-hole trials have been marked for the course this year, the first at the week-end, the second in December.
Williamson is a highly respected golfer on any course but especially on the long and testing Shirley course which forces players to use
long irons, an aspect of the game in which Williamson is particularly strong. / ' Williamson, aged 34, has not represented New Zealand since 1984, when he was a member of the New Zealand Eisenhower team, and he admitted yesterday that he had virtually surrendered any thoughts of a return to : the international arena. V . But Williamson cut an impressive figure at No. 2 for Canterbury at Shirley last year when the province won the country’s main team championship, the Government Life inter-provincial tournament, and he deservedly was' included in the short list of trialists. "I’m not naive enough to know that I’ll have to plag exceptionally
well to gain selection but I’ll be giving it my best shot — it would be a fantastic way to semi-end my career.” Williamson is one of six Canterbury players on trial. Brent Paterson, who moved to Auckland a fortnight ago, Tony Christie, Karl Mariu, Alastair Sidford and Mark Street comprise the Canterbury contingent, while the other triallists are Phil Aickin, Terry Cochrane, Martin Tumata, Glen Goldfinch, Mike Leitch (Auckland); Steven Alker, Michael Long (Waikato); Owen Kendall (Bay of Plenty); Grant Moorhead (Taranaki); and Stuart Thompson (Wellington). The talented junior, Philip Tataurangi (Waikato), has been excused from the first trial. a
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