Flint completes amazing 12 months with NZ Amateur win
IN: News | New Zealand Mens Amateur | New Zealand Amateur Championship (2004) | Wrap | by Bruce Young | 25 Apr 2004
Queenslander Gavin Flint today added the New Zealand Amateur title to his Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian State titles, all of which he has won within the last twelve months.
Flint today dominated his final at the Taupo Golf Club against Victorian Jarrod Lyle eventually winning 5 & 4 against a young man who just one month ago was runner up at the Australian Amateur Championship.
Flint was ahead early, after chipping in for an eagle at the second hole this morning. From that point, he never gave his junior, by three years, a look in as he extended the lead to be four up at lunch in the 36-hole final, completing his morning round in 65.
A birdie at the par five fifth of the afternoon round, saw Flint's lead extended to five holes and although there were brief glimmers of hope for Lyle they were only that, as the 22-year-old Flint went on to win at the 32nd. Flint was nine under for the day when the match finished.
Flint attended University in the US for two years from mid-1999 before returning to Australia in mid-2001 when he took up a scholarship with the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Flint gets little time for rest as he heads back to Brisbane to defend his Queensland Stroke and Match play titles with the Konica Queensland Medal getting underway on Wednesday 28th.
