Canterbury convincingly won the South Island women's interprovincial team tournament in fine conditions on the Russley course in Christchurch during the weekend.
The home team put up a commanding performance with four team victories as well as winning 26.5 games of a possible 32 during the four rounds.
Individual records showed Canterbury's dominance as No1 Juliana Hung, No5 Olive Tapu and No7 Kim Moggach won all four of their matches.
The only other player in the 40-strong field to achieve this was Otago No3 Annabel Evans, who secured some good scalps during the event.
With four points and 16.5 games, Otago finished second on a countback of games from Southland which managed
only 12 games from the four rounds.
It was a fitting result as Otago beat Southland 5.5-2.5 on Saturday but lost two points when the team was surprisingly beaten by Aorangi on Sunday.
Evans had four good wins at No3 while the other younger player, Abigael Crawford, also acquitted herself well at No1 beating Aorangi's Sharon Bradford as well as the experienced Emily Stenhouse from Tasman.
It is the second time this year that Otago has beaten Southland, having ended a six-year drought to win the Salisbury Cup at Balmacewen last
month.
The return of Jo Hicks-Beach at No2 and Susan Greig at No4 boosted the Otago team for the event and Raewyn Devlin at No. 7 contributed with three wins.
Hicks-Beach and Greig had two wins each after not having played in previous interprovincial fixtures this year.
Greig has now made herself available for the national interprovincial tournament in December while Hicks-Beach has started a new job and is considering whether or not she can play.
The five women and team reserve are expected to be named this week.
