Golfers from around New Zealand will take to the Sherwood Park golf club greens today for the start of the fifth-annual pro-am tournament.
The competition, with main sponsors Platinum Homes and DVS, will feature over 120 players in about 30 teams, all vying to take home their share of the $30,000 prize purse. Teams are made up of four players, including one professional golfer.
The two-day tournament, beginning at 12pm by shotgun start, had been growing in popularity in its five years and this year's field was one of its most competitive.
Professional golfers taking part in the tournament included Michael Hendry, winner of the 2010 Indonesia Open and the 2012 New Zealand PGA Pro-Am Championship, and Richard Lee, the 1992 NZ Amateur champion, 2003 Vanuatu Open champion and 2005 Thailand
Open champion.
"It's a great tournament and should be an entertaining one for people to watch," Platinum Homes owner and Sherwood Park golf club board member Dean McGonagle said.