SOUTH HUNGRY TO RISE

Ulverstone set to host Thyne Trophy and North v South Plate

The Ulverstone Golf Club will host the 2024 Thyne Trophy for men and North v South Plate for women this weekend.

The women’s North versus South Plate will be a keen contest when the South is out to avenge its loss in 2023 at Royal Hobart Golf Club.

The South has named Royal Hobart Golf Club’s Debbie Taylor as Captain and Anne Medlycott will manage the sixmember team.

Claremont Golf Club’s Sally Eastwood and Huon Valley’s Leeza Walker will be key players for the South.

Riverside Golf Club’s Amanda Smith will captain the Northern team in its title defence and Launceston member Jenny Hubbard has been named Manager.

Newly crowned Tasmanian Open champion and Launceston member Jorjah Bailey and Zahara Lemon will play pivotal roles for the North.

Favourite to claim the men’s Thyne Trophy at Ulverstone is Golf Southern Tasmania.

Spearheading the team will be Kingston Beach Golf Club member and Tasmanian Senior Amateur champion David Pretyman. Other key players in the line-up include fellow

Kingston Beach member Andrew Isles and Tasmania’s Elijah Monaghan.

The Thyne Trophy is a round-robin match-play tournament in which Tasmania’s four district associations are represented.

The annual women’s North v South Plate is a battle between two regions in foursomes and singles match-play.

Each team in the Thyne Trophy is comprised of eight members but determined by seven singles matches.

The men’s Thyne Trophy and women’s North v South Plate will be played on Saturday and Sunday.

THE FIRST round of the North v South Junior Match Play Series was at the Pittwater Golf Club on Monday.

The North opened up a slender lead when it won six of the 10 matches on offer.

Best for the North were James Robinson, Charlie Quill, Ryan Koski and Xavier Nicholls in the top half of the order.

For the South, Baxter Armstrong, Angus Gray, Aloysius Sidhu and Audrey Long won.

Longford Golf Club will host the second round on Friday and the remainder of the series will be concluded in October. NSW held off a fast-finishing Queensland to make it three wins in a row at the Australian Junior Interstate Teams title last week.

NSW and Queensland were the only two teams that could claim the overall championship heading into the final day at Royal Fremantle Golf Club.

The defending champion tallied 5.5 points ahead of Queensland 4.5 and hosts Western Australia 4.0.

South Australia, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania finished fourth to seventh respectively.

Tasmania’s best performances were in round 2 against Queensland and round 7 against the ACT.

In the match on Monday afternoon against Queensland, Devonport’s Jonty Lunson beat Chase Oberle 4&3 and Claremont Golf Club’s Edison Lee beat Wesley Hinton 3&2.

In the Apple Isles match, ACT’s Lunson halved Harry Whitelock, Launceston’s James Robinson beat Hunter Caldwell 4&2 and Tasmania’s Koby Wegman beat Blake Jones 2up.

NSW took out the boys’ event and Queensland the girls’.

The open-age Australian Interstate Teams Matches are early next month.

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