This means the Piper Cup and Ben McCorkindale Memorial Cup will remain in Otago hands for yet another year but Otago's junior development manager, Michael Smith, is frustrated all the hard work put in by our juniors is not rewarded.
''Many of the boys have played in the recent trial series to gain selection in the team which will now not compete,'' Smith said.
Part of the problem is the strength of Otago junior golf and the weakness of Aorangi and Southland, as can be seen by analysing recent results.
The Piper Cup was presented in 1961 for annual schoolboy matches between Otago and Aorangi and there have been some epic battles over the years.
However, Otago has won 15 of the past 16 encounters while there is a similar pattern for the match against Southland, which Otago has won every time since the inception in 1988 except for losing in 2002.
The Southland players who featured in that win also went on to help Southland win its first interprovincial title in Gisborne two years ago.
Otago has made concessions to keep these fixtures alive by first reducing the team size from 12 to 10 and latterly cutting it down to the top eight players from each province.
Fortunately, Smith has introduced an under-19 and under-16 match against Canterbury which was played on the Terrace Downs course in the Rakaia Gorge last month.
The local schoolboys showed some good form in the Otago championship this week. Cromwell's Inia Logan took the honours, beating Suntgwoo Han on the first playoff hole.
Logan trailed for most of the final but birdied the 17th to take the lead.
Han responded by driving the par-4 18th and sinking a 10m putt for an eagle 2 but Logan made a par 4 while Han failed to get up and down on the first playoff hole.
Connor Ross took the honours in the plate, beating Zain Pennycook in another sudden-death playoff.
