Brothers Wiremu Kepa and Nikau Wihapi-Priest are this weekend lining up for the Bay of Plenty team at golf's prized Booth Shield tournament in Lower Hutt this weekend.
Nikau, 15, is a Rotorua Boys' High School student while Wiremu, 11, is a pupil at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Matai.
In qualifying they finished second and first respectively, but almost missed out on the chance to try and get in the team.
Bay of Plenty Junior Golfing Society secretary/treasurer Graham Stewart says aspiring team members were invited, based on their results, to take part in a qualifying tournament and then the best went on to a straight 36-hole final.
''They couldn't attend on the [36-hole] day, but had the option of playing within a week.
They had to play at Tauranga and when I mentioned it to them on a Sunday, by the Monday they had already gone out and played 36 holes,'' he says.