The SBS Invitational is a 72-hole amateur stroke play team championship played between the 15 golf

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 associations of New Zealand

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. It also combines as the New Zealand Teams Stroke Play Championships. It is permanently hosted at the Invercargill Golf Club

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 in Otatara, Invercargill

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. It is always played in the first weekend of March. Teams include Aorangi, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu/Wanganui, North Harbour, Northland, Otago, Poverty Bay/East Coast, Southland, Taranaki, Tasman, Waikato, and Wellington. It is played over four rounds and teams playoff for the Macquarie Cup. A large number of professional golfers currently performing with distinction on various circuits around the world, have participated in the Invitational during their amateur careers - Michael Campbell

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, Craig Perks

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, Frank Nobilo

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, Grant Waite

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, Greg Turner

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, Phil Tataurangi

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, Stephan Scahill, Tim Wilkinson

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, Grant Moorhead, Steven Alker

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, Marcus Wheelhouse, Elliot Boult, Stephen Scahill and David Smail

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 to name but a few. To celebrate 30 years of the Invitational, a team from Australia has been sent to complete in the tournament.

Tournament format

• AmAm Tournament - Played on Friday - A four person best net teams event where sponsors are drawn to play with the top representative players from around New Zealand.

• SBS Invitational - Played on Saturday & Sunday - 72 hole team championship with the four lowest scores from each team counting in each stroke play round.

Macquarie Cup

Year	Winner	Score
1977	Southland	923
1979	Auckland	885
1980	Otago	1167
1981	Auckland	1169
1982	Canterbury	1200
1983	Canterbury	1163
1984	Canterbury	1194
1985	Southland	1191
1986	Canterbury	1164
1987	Auckland	1169
1988	Auckland	1181
1989	Wellington	878
1990	Canterbury	1177
1991	Auckland	1166
1992	Wellington	1145
1993	Auckland	1187
1994	Tasman	1163
1995	Tasman	1179
1996	Wellington	1169
1997	Canterbury	1186
1998	Canterbury	1154
1999	Wellington	1148
2000	Canterbury	1130
2001	Bay of Plenty	1167
2002	Manawatu/Wanganui	1167
2003	Bay of Plenty	1144
2004	Waikato	1139
2005	Auckland	1152
2006	Bay of Plenty	1176
2007	North Harbour	1141
2008	Auckland	1171
2009	North Harbour	1158

• Played over 54 holes in 1977, 1979 & 1989

Founders Trophy

The bottom seven teams (plus or minus ties, as decided by the Committee) after Saturday’s play shall also compete for "The Founders Trophy". The winner being the team from this group with the lowest two round total on the final day.

Year	Winner
1990	Southland
1991	Tasman
1992	Hawkes Bay
1993	Canterbury
1994	Aorangi
1995	Canterbury
1996	Taranaki
1997	Hawkes Bay
1998	Tasman
1999	Auckland
2000	North Harbour
2001	Tasman
2002	Bay of Plenty
2003	Southland
2004	Otago
2005	Canterbury
2006	Taranaki
2007	Manawatu/Wanganui
2008

Player of the Tournament

Year	Winner	Province	Score
1977	C E Taylor	Waikato	221
1979	P K Creighton	Auckland	217
1980	Rodney Barltrop	Wellington	284
1981	N A Gaskin	Manawatu/Wanganui	285
1982	J N Williamson	Canterbury	292
1983	Michael Atkinson	Otago	283
1984	J N Williamson	Canterbury	292
1985	N A Gaskin	Manawatu/Wanganui	288
1986	G W Goldfinch	Auckland	286
1987	F J Poskitt	Canterbury	292
1988	L G Phelps	Wellington	291
1989	B G Paterson	Canterbury	214
1990	H Morgan	Tasman	287
1991	Steve Alker	Waikato	283
1992	Tony Christie	Canterbury	281
1993	Marcus Wheelhouse	Auckland	290
1994	G Domigan	Tasman	285
1995	M Lloyd	Bay of Plenty	291
1996	G MacFarlane	Bay of Plenty	283
1997	David Rattray	Southland	288
1998	Carl Brooking	Canterbury	282
1999	Reon Sayer	Wellington	280
2000	Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.As an amateur, Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at...	Wellington	279
2001	K Skellern	Bay of Plenty	288
2002	Tim Wilkinson Tim Wilkinson (golfer) Timothy David Wilkinson is a professional golfer from New Zealand.Wilkinson was born in Palmerston North. He won the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship in 2000 and turned professional in 2003....	Manawatu/Wanganui	279
2003	Matthew Holten	Waikato	275
2004	Joshua Carmichael	North Harbour	278
2005	Kevin Chun	Auckland	279
2006	David Rattray	Canterbury	286
2007	Rohan Blizard Rohan Blizard Rohan Blizard is an Australian professional golfer, who currently plays on the Asian Tour.Blizard was born in New South Wales and plays golf at New South Wales Golf Club....	Australia	273
2008	Sean Riordan	Tasman	286
2009	Scott Johnson	North Harbour	281

• Air New Zealand Cup 1977-2002
• Russell Haywood Memorial 2003-

External links

• Coverage on New Zealand Golf site
• Coverage on SBS official site