Paraparaumu College win the College Sport Wellington Philips Cup

COLLEGE SPORT WELLINGTON GOLF PHILIPS CUP

Congratulations to the Paraparaumu College team of Cooper Wattam and Connor Levesque, who took home the College Sport Wellington Philips Cup for golf played at Shandon Golf Club today.

The Philips Cup competition has been running every Monday since 15th February, across 3 Zones in the district.   The teams consist of 2 players (mixed or single sex) representing their school/College.  The sectional play is a 9 hole stableford competition, and the regional finals are played over 18 holes, and contested by the two top teams from each of the 3 Zones.  The team with the highest combined stableford points is declared the winner.

The matches today were fiercely contested with Paraparaumu just beating the St Patrick's College (Kilbirnie) team (of Aiden Blackler and Christopher Burt) by just 5 stableford points, and all the other teams close behind.

Well done to all the players, who represented their Colleges so well, both in sectional play and today at the Regional Finals.

Final scores:-

1. Paraparaumu College (team 1) - Cooper Wattam, Connor Levesque (71 points)
2. St Patrick's College (Kilbirnie) - Aiden Blackler, Christopher Burt (66 points)
3. St Patrick's College (Silverstream) - Flynn Murphy, Tommy Eggleton (59 points, 3rd =)
4. Chilton - Erika Cui, Darae Chung (59 points, 3rd =)
5. Scots College - George Barralet, Elliot Western (57 points)
6. Paraparaumu College (team 2) - Alex Lopez-Sanchez, Brad Blackmore (55 points)

This competition is administered by College Sport Wellington and Clubs of the Wellington Golf Inc, with the assistance of the Eagles Golfing Society.

Thank you to Ngaire Drake (College Sport) and Brian Hill (Shandon) who organised today's finals, to all the Clubs that have hosted sectional play, Shandon for hosting the Regional Finals and to all the parents and teachers who have come along to support the teams throughout the competition.

Following on from this College Sport event, the Regional Championships (consisting of both College Team and Open tournaments), are to be held at Royal Wellington Golf Club on Tuesday, 5th April 2016, starting at 9am.

All welcome to come and view Wellington's top College golfing talent on display.