Joshua Munn (Manawatu-Wanganui) holed a 20m downhill putt for a birdie three on the third hole of a play-off to give his team the SBS Invitational title on the Otatara course in Invercargill.
After winning the interprovincial matchplay title in Gisborne in December, the Southland quintet will start as favourites to win the Southland invitational tournament which starts on the Otatara course today.
Brent McEwan (St Clair) led from the start to the finish to win the Otago strokeplay championship in windy conditions at Balmacewen during the weekend.
A capacity field of 105 competitors will tee off in the 72-hole Otago men's strokeplay championship on the Balmacewen course in Dunedin this morning.
Otago retained the Piper Cup, beating Aorangi 4.5 to 5.5 over two rounds of matchplay in cold and windy conditions on the Chisholm Park Links in Dunedin yesterday.
Thomas Facer (Otago) successfully defended his Otago schoolboys' matchplay title yesterday, beating Queenstown's Jamie Anstiss 5 and 4 in the final at Chisholm Park.
Michael Smith has been rewarded for his recent strokeplay performance, which helped him qualify for the recent New Zealand Open, by being selected to represent Otago in the Grant Clements Memorial tournament at Mt Maunganui on February 11 and 12.
Otago downed Southland 3 to 2 yesterday to finish with five points and 14.5 games at the national interprovincial, and will now play Northland for seventh and eighth places this morning.
It was a tough day at the office for the Otago women's team which came up against the favoured Auckland and Waikato teams in the fifth and sixth rounds of the national interprovincial at Whakatane yesterday.
After a bye and a rest yesterday morning, Otago romped up the Division Two leaderboard with a 5-0 drubbing of Aorangi in the afternoon to be on three points and 8.5 games with three rounds to play.
North Harbour will start as favourite when 14 teams tee off in this year's women's interprovincial which begins on the Whakatane course this morning and continues until Saturday when the semifinals and final will be played.
Southland is the toast of New Zealand golf after winning the men's interprovincial by beating Bay of Plenty 3-2 in the final on the Poverty Bay's Gisborne course on Saturday afternoon.
Southland will play Auckland and Bay of Plenty will meet Canterbury in the semifinals of the men's Toro interprovincial on the Poverty Bay course in Gisborne this morning.
After a 5-0 loss to Bay of Plenty yesterday, the Otago men's team has only a slight hope of making the semifinals of the national interprovincial tournament on the Poverty Bay course in Gisborne.
The Otago men's team made a poor start when losing 3.5-1.5 to Tasman in the first round of the men's interprovincial tournament which began on the Poverty Bay course yesterday.
Coach Ben Gallie wants to maintain the momentum Otago teams have created in recent years when the national men's interprovincial starts on the Poverty Bay Club's course in Gisborne this morning.
St Clair continued its winning form to become the Otago senior pennant champion after posting two 5 to 1 wins at Tapanui yesterday.
The Southland team emerged the winner of the South Island interprovincial teams' tournament with thee points and 20 games on the Otatara course in Invercargill yesterday.
Chris Snow (St Clair) is the only new cap in the Otago men's golf team which will compete in the Toro interprovincial tournament to be played in Gisborne from November 22 to 26.
As expected, Canterbury won the Freyberg Rosebowl Masters (over-40) men's event with eight points from as many rounds in a week-long tournament that finished yesterday on the Levin course.