Masterton sporting indentities Peter Kenny and Brian Schaefer will be seeing a lot of Australia over the next few weeks, thanks to their golfing skills.
Along with Steve Hargood and Roger Allen they leave on Sunday for seven days in Surfer's Paradise, their prize for winning the recent Wairarapa corporate shootout
competition. While there they will play in the world Masters tournament.
Then on November 25 Kenny and Schaefer will be joined by Cameron and Masterton professional Jamie McIsaac for five days on the Sunshine Coast.
They won that trip when taking out the lower North Island regional final of the Holden Scramble at Lansdowne last weekend.
A total of 31 teams qualified for that event with each of them having a PGA professional as one of their members.
It was, in fact, a trainee pro at the Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne, in Todd Nicholson who guided the winning team to success. They scored a remarkable 10 birdies and an eagle in shooting a gross 59 which less their handicap of 7.3 gave them a net score of 51.7.
Nicholson was playing as an "adopted pro" for McIsaac so it will be the latter who joins Kenny, Schaefer and Cameron for the final of the Holden Scramble series to be played on the Sunshine Coast Twin Waters course.
It was poetic justice for McIsaac who played the "adopted" role himself in the South Island regional final recently and was part of the winning team there.Benefitting from his success there is fellow PGA member Garth Domigan.
Runners-up in the lower North regional final were a team from Royal Wellington consisting of David Service Tim Wilton and Noel Smith and captained by PGA pro Jack Oliver.
They shot the low roiund of the day of 56 with 11 birdies and two eagles. They played off a handicap of 3.8 which gave them a net score of 52.2.
Close up third was the Paraparaumu team of Jeff Adlam, Matt Taylor, Owen Stokes and Alan Currie. They had a 12 birdie-one eagle round of 57 with less their handicap of 4.3 gave them a net total of 52.7.
