Golf: Gladfield Junior A pennants team convincingly wins Otago title

The Gladfield Country Golf Club Junior A pennants team has swept all before it in the province and won the Otago title.

The team, made up of six players, competed in the metropolitan junior A competition throughout the late summer and autumn and won the town competition.

It qualified top after 12 weeks of play and beat a team from Chisholm Park 5-1 in the final at the Taieri Golf Club.

Pennants is usually played through the winter but it was decided to play the Junior A grade in the late summer-autumn period to make the most of the better weather conditions.

Gladfield then had all winter to wait for the provincial championships which was played at the Tapanui Golf Club on October 18.

The day was not a great one for golf with a howling wind and some rain but the Gladfield golfers shrugged off the conditions.

It played Ardleigh, from Palmerston, in the first knockout match and had a convincing 4 and a-half to one and a-half victory.

It then took on Toko Golf Club in the final and was a 4-2 victor.

Junior A pennants is for golfers with handicaps between 14 and 21. Golfers who went below or above that handicap during the season had to drop out of the team.

Gladfield, with just under 100 members, had previously won the competition in 2009.

The six golfers who lined up for Gladfield in Tapanui on finals day were: Wayne Howell, Tony Paterson, John Paterson, Brodie Burridge, Les Smaill and Aaron Barrow.

Michael Lucas, Wayne Ferguson, Karl McKeay and Don Broad also played for the team during the season.

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