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The Adelaide Men's Senior Pennant competition commenced in 2007 and as regular readers of AUSOOM will be aware the Tea Tree Gully club has won this pennant every year. Following their 2011 victory Ken Brown from the proud Tea Tree Gully team, issued the following challenge, "If any of the winning senior pennant teams from other states want a match we are more than willing to take them on!"

Well Queenslander and Nudgee senior Grahame MacDonald has never been one to turn down a challenge and after many months of organisation a strong team of Nudgee seniors travelled to South Australia for the very first Senior Challenge Cup at the Tea Tree Gully Club.

Thanks to Chris Everett for the following report

Under cool but fine conditions the challenge between Tea Tree Gully and Nudgee Golf club got underway on Monday May 21. The Nudgee visitors got off to a fast start with Steve Rowley taking out the single match against Tea Tree Gully’s Rob Crawford 5&4.

The Fourballs were tightly fought with the home team pair of Norm Cordina and Ken Brown getting over the line 3&1 against Nudgee’s Gary Hislop and Shane Ryan. In the second Fourball, Steve Toyne and Grahame MacDonald combined well to defeat Phil Smith and Chris Everett 2&1. At lunch the visitors held a 2 matches to 1 lead.

Tea Tree Gully came out firing after the break with Phil Smith accounting for Shane Ryan 6&5 in the singles match. The Foursomes were ding dong battles with barely a hole the difference all afternoon. The Nudgee pair of Steve Rowley and Steve Toyne won the 18th hole for a hard fought one up win over Norm Cordina and Chris Everett, whilst in the other match Ken Brown holed a two metre putt on the 18th to give Tea Tree Gully a one up win.

So at the end of day one the scores were all locked up at 3 matches each with five singles matches to be played tomorrow.

A tremendous last day with things going down to the wire. Nudgee drew first blood when Steve Toyne played extremely well to account for Phil Smith 6&5. Then Tea Tree Gully's Norm Cordina levelled things with a 2&1 win over Shane Ryan followed by Chris Everett putting the Gullies in front with a 3&2 win over Steve Rowley. It wasn't long before Nudgee drew level with Gary Hislop ending his match against Rob Crawford on the 17th.

This meant the teams were tied with Ken Brown and Grahame MacDonald all square after 16 holes in the final match. Macca got the vital break when Ken 3 putted the 17th hole to go one down and when both players parred the final hole, Nudgee had recorded the narrowest of wins and became the inaugural winners of the Senior Club Challenge.

What a great 2 days of competition, keenly fought and greatly enjoyed by all. The scene has now been set for what is hoped may develop into a full interstate Challenge and the invitation is there for NSW, Victoria or any other state to strongly consider throwing their hat into the ring.

All enquiries through Grahame MacDonald or Chris Everett with the 2013 Challenge scheduled for Nudgee Golf Club probably in late July early August.