Hawke's Bay cueist Dean Garnett has created history with his latest two national eight-ball titles.
Havelock North's Garnett, 51, and his Palmerston North partner Brent Wells won the national chartered clubs pairs title in Christchurch at the weekend with a 5-3 win against Otago's Daniel Bowen and Canterbury's Rob Tipa in the final. Last month they won the national Commercial Travellers Clubs title at the Bay City Club in Napier.
Wells and Garnett, who won the North Island pairs title in Wellington in June, are the first pair to have won all three titles in the same year.
"This is the third year Brent and I have played together. He is an easy-going player to play with and that's half the key. We seem to play very well together," Garnett explained.
They were among 113 pairs in the Christchurch tournament which they won with an unbeaten run, including all five of their section play matches. They had the bye for the first round of post-section play after qualifying as the fourth seeds and had to win their last 32 (4-1), last 16 (4-2), last eight (5-4) and semifinal (5-3) matches before taking on Bowen and Tipa in the final.