What an end to the round robin play with a playoff to decide the who faces Kawerau come finals time.

The day started slowly with an all too familiar result in the morning foursomes. With a win and loss and a half to leave both teams on 1 1/2 points. Mount were proving to be tough opponents having come right towards the tail end of the season.

Come the afternoon we needed a big effort to make sure we won to secure a finals spot. Things went anything other than planned with Tauranga going down to the mount 5 to 4. With the highlights of the afternoon a comfortable win to Jason, a gritty half to wee James Cannon, and Oliver Coxhead was the hero on the day to pull off some shots that he only can to win his match and secure enough points to put Tauranga into a tie with Omanu for second position. Omanu had a stella day winning all bar one game to beat Springfield and thrust themselves into a tie for second position with Tauranga.

Hot of wining his singles match it was decided that Oliver would play the playoff hole. It was safe to say he was nervous with his drive ending up in a less than ideal position behind a tree (some could hear his knees rattling from the clubhouse!). His opponent had similar issues and it ended up that both were on the green putting for pars, and to Tauranga's good fortune the Omanu player 3 putted for a double handing Tauranga a spot in the final.

So the senior A's have done what they needed to do and will face Kawarau in the final held at Taupo late may, with many improvements needed to be made to be competitive against the rock solid Kawerau line up.

Courtesy of reporter and assistant manager.

Toby Pudney (BcM)