Aorangi Senior Mens team to compete at Southland Invitational 6/7 March at Otatara.

Tim Leonard
Mark O’Malley
Cameron Grant
Warren Pretorious
Robbie Bell
Brian Leonard (Manager)

Senior Mens team to contest Toro Interprovincial at Manawatu Golf Club, Palmerston North 1-5 Dec 2009

1.  Mark O'Malley
2.  Tim Leonard
3.  Dan Perham (Captain)
4.  Simon Wright
5.  Peter Hayes
Reserve: Regan Stills
Manager: Brian Leonard
Coach: Andre Van Staden

Team to play Freyberg Masters 10/14 Nov at Springfield Golf Club (Rotorua)

Peter Hayes  (Captain)
John Smitheram
Robbie Bell
Rod Patterson
Roger Patterson

Team to play in S.I. Interprovincial 7/8 November at Waimairi Beach.
In playing order:
Tim Leonard
Mark O’Malley
Dan Perham  (Captain)
Simon Wright
Regan Stills
Cameron Grant
Michael Barry
Warren Pretorious
Brian Leonard  (Manager)

Teams selected for Triangular match vs Otago and Southland at Jacks Point - October 10-11.
SENIOR                                                                
Tim Leonard                                                      
Mark O’Malley                                                 
Cameron Grant                                                
Dan Perham (Captain)                                         
Simon Wright                                                   
Peter Hayes                                                      
Regan Stills                                                        
Aaron Bailey                                                      
Bo Houston
Rodney O’Neill
MASTERS
Robbie Bell (Captain)
Roger Patterson
Steve Greenall
Rod Patterson
John Smitheram
Michael Peattie
Dave Iggo
Tony Moir

South Island Age Group Championship - Methven Golf Club, 23 & 24 May       Results
Under 19
Tim Leonard, Timaru; Mark O'Malley, Ashburton; Cameron Grant, Ashburton; Michael Barry, Ashburton; Nathan Whiteman, Ashburton

Under 16
Cameron Thommasen, Ashburton; Warren Pretorius, Ashburton; Damien Rogers, Highfield; Josh Smith, Tinwald; Dylan Collaud, Twizel

SBS Invitational  7/8 March, Otatara, Invercargill
The team performed creditably in the 2009 SBS Invitational, billed as the Teams Interpovincial Strokeplay Championship.
After the first day Aorangi finished 8th on a total of 582 only 8 shots from joint leaders North Harbour and Bay of Plenty on 574.
Day One Aorangi scores: Peter Hayes 73,73; Mark O'Malley 74,72; Simon Wright 74,75; Daniel Perham 74,84; Tim Leonard 69, 72.
On Sunday the weather was rain in the morning with a strong south wester all day.  They were very trying conditions.  Mark O'Malley showed his consistency with rounds of 72 and 74.  Mark O'Malley is now ranked the number 1 Junior under age 19 in New Zealand.
The teams overall finishing place of 8th was 26 shots behind eventual winners North Harbour and only 10 shots from 3rd place.  There were some large provinces behind Aorangi such as Taranaki, Canterbury, Wellington, Manawatu-Wanganui to name a few.

Mark O'Malley finished 13th individual in a field of 75 and Tim Leonard finished 14th, Simon Wright 40th and Peter Hayes 45th.

Aorangi U23 Team, National U23 - Taupo, January 2009
Tim Leonard
Mark O’Malley
Michael Barry
Matt Bruce
Cameron Grant

Toro Interprovincial, 2-6 December, Greenacres, Nelson
Aorangi Team in Playing order:-
Tim Leonard (Timaru)
Regan Stills (Tinwald)
Mark O'Malley (Ashburton)
Michael Barry (Ashburton),
Mike Davies (Timaru) (Captain)
Brian Leonard, Bede O'Malley (Manager)

Aorangi Senior Team  SI Interprovincial - Greenacres, Nelson, 8-9 November      Results
Tim Leonard (Timaru)
Mark O’Malley (Ashburton)
Mike Davies (Timaru) (Captain)
Regan Stills (Tinwald)
Michael Barry (Ashburton)
Rodney O’neill (Ashburton)
Garth Simpson (Timaru)
Dave Marsden (Ashburton)
Cameron Grant ( Ashburton) (Reserve)

Freyberg Masters Team 2008 - Poverty Bay Golf Club, 3-7 November
Peter Hayes (Gleniti)
Roger Patterson (Waimate)
John Smitheram (Tinwald)
Robbie Bell (Ashburton) (Captain)
Rod Patterson (Waimate)

South Canterbury Strokeplay Results - Timaru Golf Club 11 October 2008, 36 Holes

Senior: Tim Leonard 142

Intermediate: Cameron Grant 157; Bo Houston 162
Nett:  Graham Gunn 152; W Pretorious 152

Junior: S Richards 173 (Playoff); M Chatterton 173. Nett: G Waddell 135

Secondary School Boys - 30 September - 3 October
20 players and 4 adults travelled to Cromwell Tuesday 30 September.

Wednesday 27 holes – Michael Berry best gross -   beaten 2^nd round match play
A number of children qualified and made finals, no winners of finals.

I travelled Friday with Tim, Matt, and Mark O’Malley to play Piper Cup (Otago) and Simpson Cup (Southland), with players playing 5 from each team, team of 10.

After 1 round:  2.5 Aorangi - 2.5 Otago; 1 Aorangi - 4 Southland

Saturday final result: Otago 6 - Aorangi 4; Aorangi 6 - Southland 4

A pleasing, but disappointing result, with all our games against Southland being won on Saturday.

Matt Bruce 2 up with 2 to go (half), B.McHaffie 3 up with 4 to go (lost) were crucial games.  Half would have seen the Piper Cup coming back to Aorangi.

Very pleasing to see the younger, inexperienced, players coming through.  Overall, a very good tournament.
Brian Leonard.

Triangular at Alexandra 20 - 21 September - Aorangi, Southland and Otago
Saturday – fine, Sunday – Wet and windy

Senior:
M O'Malley, R Stills, T Leonard, P Hayes (C), N Heney, M Davies, B Houston, G Simpson, R O'Neill, R Cockburn.

Tim Leonard and Mark O’Malley both played excellent golf with both finishing 4 under for their two games.
Mark had a half on Saturday and won convincingly on Sunday.  Tim had two convincing wins.
Overall the team lost to Otago 5.5 – 4.5; and 6.5 to 3.5 to Southland.
Pleasingly the top five players beat Otago and halved with Southland.
10 men found us out of depth at the bottom end but overall the result was pleasing.

Masters:
R Bell (C), J Smitheram, M Peattie, W Lloyd, G Gunn, R Maxwell, B Jury, A Middlebrook.

With three regular players unavailable, we struggled to be competitive.  John Smitheram had two wins, while Graeme Gunn shot 3 under on Saturday. Result: Lost to Southland 5.5 – 2.5; Lost to Otago 6.5 – 1.5

Under 19:
M Barry, C Grant, M Bruce (C), C Tomanson, J Shaw, N Wightman. 

Matt Bruce back from injury 2 wins.  With 5 juniors in senior team gave the opportunity for some younger players.  Result:  Beat Southland 4 - 2;  Lost to Otago 5 – 1