International golf returns to The Hills next week for the inaugural Four Nations Cup and the New Zealand team arrives in Arrowtown full of confidence of tipping over Australia.
The Four Nations Cup is an amalgamation of two tournaments - the Four Nations between New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Canada and the Southern Cross Cup involving New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina - and has become one strokeplay event.
The four international teams (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina) are made up of four male players with the best three scores counting each day. One round of golf will be played each day for four days.
After a strong showing at the Asian Amateur Championship last week in Singapore, the New Zealand team of Ryan Fox, Ben Campbell, Mathew Perry and Vaughan McCall are optimistic about their chances.
Campbell came close to winning the title in Singapore and securing an invite to the Masters in April before finishing third.
It was a remarkable performance only seven weeks after surgery on an abnormal bone growth in his foot. He returns to the New Zealand team after missing the Nomura Cup in Fiji.
The New Zealand No 1 Fox, who is preparing to turn professional at the end of 2011, finished in a share of 17th in Singapore. He hopes to bow out of international team's golf in style.
"If all goes to plan this will be my last event for New Zealand, and I would love to finish one better than the Nomura Cup,'' Fox said. "We have a very experienced team and we are all in form after top-20 finishes in the Asian Amateur, so we have a really good chance next week.
"It would be great to finish on a high, and win the inaugural Four Nations Cup on home soil.''
New Zealand last hosted the Southern Cross Cup at Wairakei International in 2009 and the Four Nations in 2003 at the Christchurch Golf Club. Australia holds the Southern Cross Cup and Canada is the reigning Four Nations champions.
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