It has taken 62 years but the NZ Seniors Golf Association Championship will finally be played in the Western Bay of Plenty next week.
It is a mystery how the tournament has missed these shores for so long, with an abundance of outstanding golf courses and a captive audience of over 55-year-olds living in the region.
But it is fitting that the NZSGA Ocean Shores Village Championship will be hosted by Mount Maunganui Golf Club, the most successful of any New Zealand club in the tournament's history.
Mount Maunganui members have won the championship 17 time since inception in 1955, with Brian Ducker the supreme champion having won or shared the title on seven occasions.
He is back again this year with other notable Mount Maunganui members in three-time winner Andrew Markman, Trevor Campbell who has won it twice, and Ian Pollard and Robert Lunn (aged 82) in the top division.