Bowls: Aramoho bowler Gavin Scrivener in white hot form as part of national fours winning team

The 2019 NZ men's fours winners: Neil Candy, left, Dean Elgar, Whanganui's Gavin Scrivener (Aramoho) and Bruce Hall.

Aramoho lawn bowler Gavin Scrivener is in white hot form heading into Whanganui open finals weekend in 10 days time.

Scrivener has retained his form at the Summerset National Fours tournament in Wellington winning the final in a real nailbiter for the Dean Elgar-skipped composite side.

Elgar, who was teamed with New Plymouth West End clubmates Neil Candy and Bruce Hall along with Scrivener, defeated Michael Kernaghan (North East Valley) 23-22 in the decider.

With just two of the 21 ends remaining it looked like Kernaghan and his South Island team of Roger Stevens, Andy McLean and Andrew Kelly were heading for victory as they led by five shots.

However, Elgar, who won the national singles title two years ago in a similar dramatic come-from-behind fashion, had other ideas.

Scrivener played a major role in the come back victory, but downplayed his part and praising his skip's impact on the game.

One down on the head in the penultimate end, Elgar drove the shot bowl, dislodging the jack into the ditch for four shots. Kernaghan didn't reduce with his last and Elgar added the bonus to tie the game up with one end to play. Scrivener set Elgar's team up superbly on the last end with two close bowls.

Candy drew the shot itself and the side then added in the cover. Kernaghan's team attempted to reach through on the narrow side without success and the skip's first bowl, a draw, was short.

Kernaghan changed to the wide forehand with his last bowl, running through the head. He moved the jack, but Elgar's first bowl then became the closest and the championship winner.

"It was a close call and it was really down to our skip Dean putting the jack in the ditch, that was the winning of the game," Scrivener said.

"It was great to be a part of the winning team and I'm pretty happy with my form, especially leading into Whanganui open finals weekend."

Scrivener is already in the St Johns Club Men's Singles final, and the Ryman Healthcare Pairs and Fours, while he is also in the Phil Corney-skipped Aramoho team to play in the rescheduled Ryman Healthcare Open Triples semi-final set down for finals weekend at the St Johns Club greens on March 16-17.

"I'm going to be fairly busy that weekend, especially if we get through the triples semi-final. I've got nothing on until that weekend, so it will give me time to freshen up," Scivener said.