The 2010 Match Play Championships | December 4&5 2010 Monte Cecilia Park. Auckland, New Zealand

2010 Match PlayChampionships

As another year of the NZDG Tour comes to an end the battle for a top 16 invite to compete in this prestigious event is becoming harder and harder.

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Congratulations to all those who made it, from Simon Feasey at #1 through to Marty deHaas at 17 .. [sneaking in with Senior Grandmaster Nigel Barnwell not making the players meeting on the Saturday morning]. Also with Woman’s Disc Golf in New Zealand on the rise it was great to have some ding-dong battles at the top end of their game as well.

Sadly our photographer picked the wrong pairs to follow round so our pictorial coverage is limited .. BUT .. Watch this space .. We are making a half hour programme out of the weekend for Sky Television and have some fantastic footage in the can.. that’s now moving into the post production phase.

We should have broadcast dates soon so we’ll keep you informed as to when you can see it on the big screen, should be around Waitangi weekend. This is a very exciting leap forward for our sport.

Thanks to Marty and Nigel Hailstone and company for designing and installing a testing course that saw some surprises, and I’m pleased to note that the first event involving our new club house [Parr Homestead] was a huge success. Now let’s work on getting 18 user friendly art installations scattered around the park.

Interested to know how the Matchplay format works? Thanks to Mario, you can view the format here.

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Pictures

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Lights, camera, action! - The cameras roll as TD Bob Gentil gets the matches under way.

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Bend it Like Brendon - Tauranga’s Brendon Love finds a bit of timber between him and the basket.

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Plate This Year, Title Next? - Jackson Sullivan from Levin had a tough first up match with Blair Joines but improved every round to take out the Plate Competition.

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Look, I Can Fly - Match Play course designer Martin de Haas had the eventual champ a little worried .. but then they started playing.

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Nothing deep fried here - Andrew Taylor and partner Karoline Jonsson keeping the energy levels picnic-style up as she heads towards the final (as for Andrew, well...). You can view some of Karo's awesome tasting (but super healthy) recipes at her blog site Pure Eating.

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Where's the Chair? - The GM in a do or die situation .. again!

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Battle of the Bros - The green keeper had done a nice job and the course was looking immaculate, as Nigel Hailstone drops another shot in his battle with his brother Brett.

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Hole #7 saw the players visiting a part of the park we hadn’t used before, thankfully the south-westerly didn’t kick in. This could have been trouble.

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Fig You Are Tivley - Monte Cecilia Park is a world class venue for disc golf. The massive Morton Bay fig tree dwarfs Brendon Love as he halves hole 11 (dwarfing de Love? That's saying something! - ed.).

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Results

Kinda hard to display, but let's have a go...

Mens

1. Simon Feasey	9	W1 Simon 5 & 4	17	W9 Simon 5 & 3	25	W 17 Simon 7 & 6	1 Simon Feasey 2 & 1
17. Marty DeHaas	9	W2 Brett 2 & 1	17	W10 Dean 3 & 2	25	W18 Carson 1 up	2 Carson Thomas-Boon

9 Nigel Hailstone	10	W3 Mario 3 & 2	18	W11 Carson 1 UP	26	L17 Dean	3 Dean marshall 3 & 2
8. Brett Hailstone	10	W4 Dean 3 & 2	18	W12 Damion 3 & 2	26	L18 Damien	4 Damien Paters

5. Mario Cerniar	11	W5 Blair 2 & 1	19	L9 Brett	27	W19 Mario 1 up	5 Blair Joines 2 & 1
12. Andrew Taylor	11	W6 Carson 1 UP	19	L10 Mario	27	W20 Blair 2 & 1	6 Mario Cerniar

13. Brendon Love	12	W7 Pete 6 & 5	20	L11 Blair	28	L19 Brett	7 Brett Hailstone 5 & 4
4. Dean Marshall	12	W8 Damion 1 UP (+4)	20	L12 Pete	28	L20 Pete	8 Pete Boyle

3. Blair Joines	13	L1 Marty	21	W13 Nigel 3 & 1	29	W21 Nigel 1 up	9 Jackson Sullivan 1 up
14. Jackson Sullivan	13	L2 Nigel	21	W14 Brendon 3 & 2	29	W22 Jackson 2 & 1	10 Nigel Hailstone

11. Carson T-Boon	14	L3 Andrew	22	W15 Jackson 1 UP	30	L21 Brendon	11 Paul Cohen 1 up
6. Bob Gentil	14	L4 Brendon	22	W16 Paul 2 & 1	30	L22 Paul	12 Brendon Love

7. Pete Boyle	15	L5 Jackson	23	L13 Marty	31	W23 Marty 6 & 4	13 Martin deHaas 2 & 1
10 Michael Proctor	15	L6 Bob	23	L14 Andrew	31	W25 Bob 1 up [plus 3]	14 Bob Gentil

15. Paul Cohen	16	L7 Michael	24	L15 Bob	32	L23 Andrew	15 Andrew Taylor 4 & 3
2. Damion Peters	16	L8 Paul	24	L16 Michael	32	L24 Michael	16 Michael Proctor

Womens

Points Play	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Match Play Semi-Final	Woman's Match Play Final.
Ming Menzies	7	12	19	Ming 4 & 3	1 Karoline Jonsson 2 & 1
Karoline Jonsson	9	9	18	Kiri	2 Fiona 'Ming' Menzies
Gemma Sullivan	5	9	14
Kiri Thomas-Boon	6	7	13	Karoline 2 & 0	3 Kiri Thomas-Boon 3 & 2
Jenny Joynt	4	4	8	Gemma	4 Gemma Sullivan

Click here for the 2010 New Zealand Tour Points Table

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