For the Stratford-based Anderson family, speed golf runs in their blood.
Jordan Anderson, 22, will represent New Zealand in the 2024 World Speedgolf Championships at Japan’s Seven Hundred Club this November.
“I’m quite excited - it will be great to get out on the world stage. I’m hoping for a podium finish but there’s a lot of us going over from Taranaki and New Zealand and we’re all quite competitive so I think just going out there and doing my best will be good enough.”
Speed golf is a variation of golf that involves running and playing the sport. Anderson, a member of Stratford and Fitzroy Golf clubs, said he had been playing the variation for about a year and a half after his dad, Greg, started playing.