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AUSTRALIAN SENIOR ORDER OF MERIT
AUSTRALIA vs NEW ZEALAND
Titirangi Golf Club - Feb 19 - 21, 2008
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THE SANCTUARY COVE TROPHY - 2008 |
The Sanctuary Cove Trophy is played using a Ryder Cup format between teams representing senior golfers from Australia and New Zealand. The inaugural match between twelve man teams was played at Sanctuary Cove in Queensland during July, 2007 and resulted in a comfortable win for the Australians - 19 matches to 5.
The picturesque Titirangi Golf Course in Auckland was the venue for the second challenge match played from February 19-21, 2008. Australia retained the coveted Sanctuary Cove Trophy with a 13.5 matches to 10.5 matches victory.
The following report on the tournament is taken from the New Zealand Golf Association Web Site. It was written by the captain of the New Zealand team - Rodney Barltrop.
A New Zealand Seniors Selection V Australian Seniors
2008 Event Report
New Zealand Selection vs Australia (Seniors) at Titirangi 2008-02-26
After a trial at Titirangi last year NZ was represented by:
The fourball and foresome results really gave us no chance in the event when we could only produce 1 win and 3 halves in those 12 matches. However 8 singles wins on the final day showed we were competitive. The overall result was 13.5 10.5 to Australia. The full results can be found on www.ausoom.com which has the Australian view of the results as well.
The Australians play in at least 12 order of merit events which keeps them very competitive. We obviously need to get our players more events to play. A number of our players have played in Australian order of merit events but somehow we need to get everyone of our players playing competitively regularly.
The venue for next years event is Sanctuary Cove in July. The trials to make this team will be announced later on this year with trials probably being in March & April 2009.
Titirangi Golf Club was the host for this years event. This is the only golf course in New Zealand designed by the legendary designer Dr Alistair MacKenzie. This point was not lost on our Australian visitors who had a number of players who are members of courses designed by him.
Titirangi Golf Club was a brilliant host and the event went like clockwork with Club Captain Ann Jugum at the helm, well supported by Club Manager Tony Hitchcock and President Keith Norris.
Rodney Barltrop
2008 FINAL RESULTS:
AUSTRALIAN 13.5 defeats NEW ZEALAND 10.5
| FOURBALL AUSTRALIA | 4.5 | FOURBALL NEW ZEALAND | 1.5 |
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| Doug Thorp & Peter Terrace | Alistair Nichols & Andrew McKechnie | 1 UP | |
| Alex Cleave & Phil Wood | 1 UP | Mike Leitch & Arthur Parkin | |
| Ian Read & Bill Banks | 3 & 2 | David Headland & Martin Webber | |
| Brian Sams & Tony Kennings | 3 & 2 | Hugh Harrison & Rodney Barltrop | |
| Denis Dale & Chris Coats | 1 UP | Bill Bell & Ken Rankin | |
| Ross Percy & Alan Evans | SQ | Owen Kendall & Ron Sisoon | SQ |
| FOURSOMES AUSTRALIA | 5 | FOURSOMES NEW ZEALAND | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Read & Bill Banks | SQ | Rodney Barltrop & Martin Webber | SQ |
| Alex Cleave & Phil Wood | 5 & 4 | Arthur Parkin & Andrew McKechnie | |
| Brian Sams & Tony Kennings | 2 & 1 | Ken Rankin & Mike Leitch | |
| Doug Thorp & Peter Terrace | 2 UP | Owen Kendall & Bill Bell | . |
| Ross Percy & Alan Evans | 5 & 3 | Hugh Harrison & Ron Sisoon | |
| Denis Dale & Chris Coats | SQ | Alistair Nichols & David Headland | SQ |
| INDIVIDUAL AUSTRALIA | 4 | INDIVIDUAL NEW ZEALAND | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Coats | David Headland | 1 UP | |
| Denis Dale | 4 & 3 | Hugh Harrison | |
| Ross Percy | Owen Kendall | 1 UP | |
| Brian Sams | Ron Sisoon | 2 & 1 | |
| Bill Banks | 3 & 2 | Bill Bell | |
| Tony Kennings | Mike Leitch | 4 & 3 | |
| Alex Cleave | 3 & 2 | Alistair Nicholls | |
| Ian Read | Ken Rankin | 2 UP | |
| Doug Thorp | Arthur Parkin | 3 & 2 | |
| Peter Terrace | Rodney Barltrop | 1 UP | |
| Phil Wood | 4 & 3 | Martin Webber | |
| Alan Evans | Andrew McKechnie | 6 & 5 |
2008 AUSTRALIAN SENIORS TEAM - Geoff Davey (Non-playing Captain)
| Name | State | Name | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denis Dale | NSW | Tony Kennings | NSW |
| Brian Sams | NSW | Ross Percy | VIC |
| Peter Terrace | QLD | Doug Thorp | QLD |
| Bill Banks | ACT | Chris Coats | QLD |
| Phil Wood | VIC | Alan Evans | VIC |
| Alex Cleave | WA | Ian Read | QLD |
2008 NEW ZEALAND SENIORS TEAM
| Name | City | Name | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Webber | Wellington | Ken Hankin | Titirangi |
| Arthur Parkin | Maungakiekie | Andrew McKechnie | Hamilton |
| Mike Leitch | Maungakiekie | Rodney Barltrop | Wellington |
| Ron Sisson | Taihape | Bill Bell | Gulf Harbour |
| Dave Headland | Whitford Park | Hugh Harrison | Takapau |
| Owen Kendall | Mt Manganui | Alistair Nicholls | Whangarei |