The two-day Legends tournament tees off on Saturday. In 1997, then-Cromwell Golf Club manager Doug Harradine, a former Otago golf representative, imagined a weekend where friends from different sporting backgrounds could reunite, enjoy each other’s company and still test themselves on the course. The simple but unusual rules require every four-person team to include at least one sporting "legend" — a national or provincial sporting representative, current or former, from any sport. In a statement yesterday Cromwell Golf Club president Peter Williams said 61 teams would hit the fairways on Saturday. Mr Williams said Banks was making one of his final sporting appearances in Otago before shifting north.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 13, 2026 17:26 UTC