The Nelson College students raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. From left: Fergus Murray, Matthew Grimes, Harry Perkins, Thomas Zohrab, and Josh Simpson (not pictured Kameran Clarke).

A group of Nelson students are back out on the fairway to raise money in the fight against prostate cancer.

Six Year 13 pupils from Nelson College are holding two charity golf tournaments in September, with the proceeds going to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The "Blue Balls Charity Golf Tournament" is part of the nationwide Blue September initiative to raise awareness for the disease, which kills more than 600 kiwi men per year.

This year will be the second time around for the group, who held the first event in 2017 as part of their business studies programme.

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In 2017 they raised a total of $6500, but have set their sights a little higher this time.

As well as holding a tournament at the Nelson Golf Club, the boys have also organised to set up a second one at Coringa Golf Club in Christchurch.

Team member Thomas Zohrab said a par score in 2018 would be a total of $16,000.

Zohrab said the group had also recruited golf ball supplier Volvik to help the tournament live up to its name.

"They mainly specialise in coloured balls, so as a mad-keen golfer I thought they could supply us actual blue balls.

"You can't even buy blue balls on the shelf, and we're getting them with the Blue September stickers on them."

Zohrab said as well as selling them to local clubs, Rebel Sport in Nelson would be stocking them throughout September.

Fergus Murray said the group had learnt a lot from their efforts in the previous year.

"Last year was really good, it was pretty casual ... this year we're a lot more organised.

​"It's quite structured, the aim is to set up a blueprint of how to organise [the tournament] so we can give it to Blue September at the end of the year, if they want to run it in the future.

"It's a great cause .. we're all men [in the group] and it affects one in 10 people, so you never know if it's going to be you one day."

So far just under 20 teams (of four players each) have signed up for the Nelson tournament, out of a total of about 30 available spots.

Tournament schedule: Nelson Golf Club Friday 14 September at midday, Caringa Golf Club (Christchurch) Friday 28 September at midday.

Entry for a four-player team is $200 - for more information about tickets contact thomas@blueballs.golf.

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