A Bledisloe Cup-type clash between the best on both sides of the Tasman will highlight today's quarter-finals in the women's amateur golf championship in Wanganui.
Rotorua's Penny Newbrook will clash with Australian representative Nikki Garrett, last year's beaten finalist, at the Wanganui Golf Club.
Most of the key players are through to the quarter-finals including both Espirito Santo representatives on show, Newbrook and Sarah Nicholson, top qualifier Jenny Park (Otago), foursomes winner Sally Choi as well as Garrett, the only Australian still in the main draw.
Newbrook ousted North Harbour's Mi Kyung Kim 4 and 3 in the second round yesterday. The NZ strokeplay champion was three-under despite two three-putts, and was also untroubled disposing of North Shore's Robyn Scott in the first round.
Garrett had a reasonably relaxed day, two-under in her 9 and 7 morning rout and equally emphatic with a 4 and 3 victory over Pakuranga's Dasom Lee in the afternoon.
Park was forced to the 19th to edge out Whakatane's Susan Lines in the morning, and beat Stephanie Slavich (Lochiel) in the second round. Park takes on 16-year-old Choi in the first quarter-final, Nicholson plays Arrowtown's Hester Wallace and North Harbour's Bobae Kim takes on Haeji Kang (Whangarei) in the final quarter-final.
Golf: Transtasman showdown looms in women's amateur quarters
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