Teenaged Napier golfing prodigy Zack Swanwick has celebrated his arrival on the international scene with a hole-in-one in a major junior tournament in Australia.
Wednesday's ace on the 140-metre 11th at the Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club at Pokolbin, near Newcastle, about 170km north of Sydney, rocketed the Under 16 category Napier Golf Club member to a four-stroke lead.
Swanwick had rounds of 68 and 68 to be eight under the card after the first two rounds of the Jack Newton International Junior Classic on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, Swanwick won the New Zealand Under-19 boys' title at Pukekohe with a dramatic last round, striking back from five shots behind the leader at the start of the day.
Now No 3 on the current New Zealand Order of Merit, he then tied for third in his age group at the Gary Player Junior Classic in Brisbane.