Kristin golf sensation Victoria Xin (Year 9) has secured the individual title at the 2025 New Zealand Secondary Schools Golf Championships held at the Shandon Golf Club in Wellington. 

 

Victoria shot remarkable back-to-back rounds of 66 (-4) to finish at the top of the individual leaderboard on -8, finishing two strokes clear of the next best finisher, New Zealand representative Cooper Moore (Year 12) of St Bede’s College. Moore is currently 257th in the world amateur golf rankings, is the current New Zealand Amateur Champion and the current Australian Boys Amateur champion, which puts the incredible nature of Victoria’s victory into perspective. 

 

Victoria also notched up a blistering 11 birdies across the two rounds, which was the most out of all the competitors.

 

Kristin’s acting Director of Sport, Mark Haslam, says, “To fire two back-to-back rounds of 66 to claim the best individual title is a testament to Victoria’s calm nature and an incredible skill set honed by hundreds of practice hours.”

 

Victoria is no stranger to big wins. Last year, when she was only in Year 8, she won the IMG World U12 Championship in the United States of America, where she shot impressive scores of 69, 69 and 72 to win the three-round tournament by two shots over 90 golfers from all over the world.

 

Overall, our Kristin team of Victoria Xin (Year 9), Tony Guo (Year 11) and Sam Macfarlane (Year 10) finished second in the team competition with a combined best two out of three score of -1, three shots back from winners Pinehurst School on -4, and two shots ahead of third-place getters Kings College.

 

View the full leaderboard here