The annual Prodrive Waikato Men’s Masters were held on the 10^th of August at the Waikare Golf Club. The event was played over one day with morning and afternoon sessions. This year’s competition drew a large amount of interest with over 130 entries that were then cut down by lowest handicap to 96 competitors.

The morning session provided perfect playing conditions and the scores followed suit. Mark Hughes from the Mount Maunganui Golf Club led the field after the first round with a score of 67 but closely behind him were Martin Tumata, Mike Leitch and Gavin Cortesi who shot 70, 71 and 71 respectively.  

In the Net competition Michael Bone led the field with a net score of 65 closely followed by Steve Gay, Clyde Graf and Kent Lyall who shot 67, 68 and 68 respectively.

The weather began to change for the worse as the players started to prepare for the afternoon session. Scattered showers and high winds made playing conditions difficult. This however didn’t deter our overall winner and runner up who were so closely matched they required a count back to separate them. Watty Stanley from the Te Kowhai Golf Club shot an impressive score of 72 and 68 for a combined score of 140. Mark Hughes also followed up his morning score of 67 with a solid 73 in the afternoon to leave him tied with Watty on 140. After a count back was taken, Watty Stanley was declared the overall winner.

In the Net competition Michael Bone followed up his impressive first round score with a net score of 70 for an overall net score of 135 to claim first place. Taking out the runner-up spot was Andrew Fisher who shot net scores of 68 and 69 for an overall net score of 137.

Waikato Golf would like to acknowldge and pass on a huge thank you to ProDrive Hamilton for their continued sponsorship of this time honoured event and also pass on thier appreciation to Waikare Golf Club for their continued support in making thier Golf club available for this event.  

For a list of the full gross results please click here 

For a list of the full nett results please click here

Article added: Monday 12 August 2019