New Zealand's top golfer, Michael Hendry, will be giving out advice to promising golfers and any frustrated hackers at Chisholm Park this weekend.
Hendry, who will be in Queenstown next week to play at this year's New Zealand Open, will give a free clinic to those playing in the Otago Polytechnic Education Open ambrose tournament on Friday.
A field of 120 is lining up for that tournament, which benefits the Otago Polytechnic Education Foundation.
As well as taking a coaching clinic, Hendry will also give a lifeline to those playing in the tournament.
He will be stationed at one of the course's holes, where, for a cost of a donation to the foundation, he will play a competitor's shot for them.
Also in attendance will be top New Zealand golf coaches Guy Wilson and Craig Dixon. Wilson is the former coach of Lydia Ko.
They will run free coaching clinics for under-16 players on Friday and Saturday at Chisholm Park.
Meanwhile, promising New Zealand golfers Brad Shilton, Ben Campbell and Mathew Perry have been given tournament invites to next week's New Zealand Open in Queenstown.
Shilton, Campbell and Perry all excelled as amateurs when they represented New Zealand and are promising professionals.
Auckland-based Shilton, who represented NZ at the Eisenhower World Teams Championship, enjoyed his breakthrough win on the PGA Tour of Australasia in 2012 when he won the South Pacific Golf Open Championship in Noumea.
Shilton, who has status in about half a dozen OneAsia Tour events this year, said a big week at the New Zealand Open could be career-changing.
Perry, of Hamilton, represented New Zealand at the 2012 Eisenhower in Turkey alongside Campbell and Vaughan McCall.
With the NZ Open being on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and the partnership it had with the Japanese Tour, it provided a rare opportunity to gain status on two tours, Perry said.
Campbell was one of the leading players in the world during his amateur career.
The Masterton golfer, who defeated Hendry to win the Carrus Open as an amateur on The Charles Tour, was ranked as No6 in the world at his highest point and he finished fourth at the 2010 Eisenhower in Argentina.
But he has struggled in his early stages of his professional career and will be grateful for the start in Queenstown.
Tournament invites have also been given to the resident professionals at The Hills and Millbrook, Craig Palmer and Ben Gallie.
The final places in the field have been allocated to other non-exempt players who finished in the top 10 in the PGA of New Zealand Order of Merit last year.
Included in this group are Richard Lee, Daniel Pearce, Jarred Pender, Grant Moorhead, Fraser Wilkin, Troy Ropiha, Dominic Barson and Doug Holloway.
