Bright Sydney sunshine greeted the opening day s play at Monash, Pymble and Mona Vale clubs on Monday. COLTS: The weather was a pleasant change for the Colts at Mona Vale after heavy rain on Sunday caused the cancellation of the practice round and meant a number of teams had little time to see the course. New South Wales made a solid start winning 6 to 1 over Tasmania. Queensland and Western Australia fought their matches down to the wire with the result of WA s Shaun Malone and QLD s Jared Consoli s match to decide it- Malone won and gave WA victory. Victoria started their campaign with a solid win over South Australia. Click here for a PDF scoreboard of Monday&aposs play MEN&aposS At Monash, the Men took to a course with quick, undulating greens which dried as the day s play progressed. Victoria s Matt Griffin produced one of the shots of the day with an eagle on the 18th (his fourth hole) to go two up after four holes. But South Australia s Jordan Sherratt fought back, beating the leading Australian men’s amateur 1-up. Sherratt s result halved the match with Victoria. New South Wales comprehensively beat Tasmania but it was Tasmania&aposs Ryan McCarthy who produced one of the performances of the day to beat Open Championship entrant Rohan Blizard 3&2. Western Australia defeated Queensland despite the Queenslanders getting the better of the WA squad in the foursomes matches. Daniel Nisbet won both his foursomes match and defeated national squad member Jason Scrivener 5&3 in the singles. Click here for scoreboard of Monday&aposs play WOMEN At Pymble, the sun slowly dried out rain-sodden ground as the best amateur women golfers took to the picturesque course. The match of the day was fought out between South Australia s Stephanie Na and Victorian Clare Choi with Na winning 2-up on the final hole. SA s Sarah King had an excellent result beating Canadian Amateur champion Stacey Keating 3&2 while SA&aposs Stephanie Na and Jovanna Bozanic beat Victorians Stacey Keating and Clare Choi in foursomes. Queensland were well-beaten by Western Australia in the Foursomes as Whitney Hillier, Nicole Montgomery and the Speechley sisters triumphed. In a complete reversal of fortunes, Queensland found another gear in the singles matches and made short work of the Western Australian women. NSW comprehensively accounted for Tasmania in foursomes and singles. Click here for a scoreboard of Monday&aposs play Follow all the daily live updates and action with us at Golf Australia score updates