After 17 women's interprovincials, veteran Janie Field returned to Westown Golf Club in New Plymouth only to find the inclement weather hadn't changed.
"The same thing virtually happened when I played here 14 years ago with wet weather and delays in play so here we are again with the same scenario," a laughing Field said on Saturday as the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay team concluded the Toro-sponsored teams' matchplay tourney.
"All the other playoff games [9th, 11th, 13th] have been abandoned and they're just playing the final so that's how bad the weather is," said the Napier Golf Club member who played her maiden tourney in 1993, after Auckland beat BOP 3-2 to become champions for the fifth time in six years.
What also hadn't changed this tourney was HBPB's team spirit as Field selflessly lugged the bag for teenage reserve Nicole Aluni for her tourney debut on the final day of the 5th-6th playoff against North Harbour on Saturday.
"Nicole got a game today and she got a halve and I caddied for her," said the codling moth trapper for export orchards from Napier of the 16-year-old Sacred Heart College pupil who halved with Subin Wui at No 5.