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Dunedin, New Zealand
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Promising golfer Thomas Facer (Year 13, 7th form) may have initially thought his trip to last week’s North Island Golf Championships at the Hutt Golf Club was wasted, but the venture north turned to gold.
Thomas, who plays out of the Otago Golf Club, missed the cut by the narrowest of margins – one shot – but rather than mope he decided on Thursday to play a round at the Pauatahanui Golf Club in Porirua … where he ended with a 65, a course record.
He was 4-under at the turn and, after a rare albatross at the par-five 13th, where he didn’t see the ball go into the hole on the elevated green, he stormed home for the 65.
His round broke the record of 2005 US Open champion Michael Campbell.
