Golf placing marks Christie’s birthday

Press, 23 October 1989, Page 18

Golf placing marks Christie’s birthday

Tony Christie, of Canterbury, celebrated his twentieth birthday on Saturday by helping New Zealand to second place in the Pacific amateur teams’ golf championship at the Kasumigaseki course in Japan. Christie had a spec-

tacular international senior debut, finishing second in the individual standings to Lester Peterson (Australia), the man who beat him in the final of the New Zealand matchplay championship, The outstanding form of Christie and the solid

showing of another junior golfer, Steven Alker, of Hamilton, kept New Zealand ahead of Japan and Canada, but it could not bridge the gap to the Australians in the final round. Final team scores:—Australia, 891, 1; New Zealand,

899, 2; Japan, 905, 3; Canada, 939, 4. Final individual scores:— 289—Lester Peterson (Australia), 72, 68, 74, 75. 295—Tony Christie (New Zealand), 73, 73, 74, 75. 299—Stuart Bouvier (Australia), 79, 72, 73, 75. 301—Warren Sye (Canada), 79, 72, 75, 75.

302— Steven Alker (New Zealand), 73, 74, 81, 74. 303— Tetsuo Sakata (Japan), 75, 77, 75, 76; Koyotaka Oie (Japan), 75, 76, 75, 77. 304— Kazuyoshi Yonekura (Japan), 73, 76, 80, 75.

306—Brent Paterson (New Zealand), 80, 74, 77, 75; Steven Conran (Australia), 77, 76, 76,

309—Takahiro Nakagawa (Japan), 78, 76, 82, 73. 311— Stephen McCraw (Australia), 83, 78, 76, 74. 312— Terry Cochrane (New Zealand), 80, 75, 77, 80. 321—David Morland (Canada), 84, 76, 82, 79. 323—Peter Mayor (Canada), 84, 77, 80, 82; Robert Wylie (Canada), 80, 78, 85, 80).