He was joined in the last eight by John Priestley, Sel Pohatu, Regan Hindmarsh, Lyal Anania and No.2 seed Dwayne Russell.
Fighting for survival in round 1 matches will be Terry Reeves up against Eddie Brown jr and Chris Beattie versus Dean Pohatu.
The endeavour section final will pit Simon Pittar against John Tietjen on September 5.
The women are not in club championship matchplay action until August 22.
Andrea Haisman top qualified for the intermediate division while Kath McLatchie grabbed the No.2 spot, which earned the pair direct route to the semifinals on August 29.
The senior title will be contested by reigning champion Denise Johnston and Helen Pomana on September 5.
The junior title is not being contested this year.
S Marsh 66, T Brodie 66, T Green 70, J Priestley 72, J Neilson 72.
M Weaver 73, D Gordon 73, B McKenzie 74, B Tietjen 74, G Maude 75.
Women’s net: D Johnston 78, H Pomana 80.
J Brodie.
M Weaver.
M Hamblyn 23, M de Luze 20, A Nimmo 20, C Beattie 19.
B Williams 19, W Bruce 19, S Fookes 19, I Tietjen 18.
TEEN cricket machine Marcus Gray has quickly shown he is on track to becoming as adept with a golf club as he is with a bat.
The 14-year-old marked his first club championship campaign with victory in his endeavour division quarterfinal match, knocking out third seed Josh Taylor on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
Gray followed in the fairway steps of father Deevon, who is into the quarterfinals of the senior division.
All quarterfinalists have been confirmed while one endeavour semifinal slot remains to be filled.
The clash between 2020 intermediate champion Anthony Pahina and teenager Zach Rolls is being billed as the senior “match to watch” although Pete Stewart’s clash with No.2 seed Sel Peneha could be a battle royal.
Stewart beat Jace Brown 4 and 3 in a round 1 match on Sunday.
Glen McKinnon faces James Witika in an intermediate quarterfinal being promoted as “two players in sizzling form”.
Intermediate top seed and High School Old Boys premier rugby team coach Danny Boyle knows the threat Waikohu and Poverty Bay representative Adrian Wyrill poses on the field. He will find out how that converts to the greens in their quarterfinal.
Hot off his career-first hole-in-one, Mike Christophers will try to fend off Handicap Cup winner Dave Rameka in their junior quarterfinal while evergreen Barry Cox will look to fly the veterans’ flag high against Shaun Pahina.
the women completed their club championship qualifying, with a familiar face at the top of the order.
Jo Kerr, on a mission to make it five senior titles on the trot, top qualified with 81.
Jacque Akuhata-Nickerson’s 94 was best of the intermediate qualifiers while defending junior champion Kath Papuni clinched the No.1 spot — albeit being a straight final in that division — with 105.
A Reedy 71, P Wellard 72.
J Kerr 81.
J Akuhata-Nickerson 94.
K Papuni 105
K Papuni 105-32-73.
B Woods.
P Wellard 38, J Witika 37, A Narine 35.
T Ford 95-19-76.
J Nickerson 94-21-73.
Bronze 2: K Papuni 112-32-80.
T Ford, E Parkin.
T Ford 90-19-71, 38.
P Shaw.
S Peneha v P Stewart, T Akroyd v Z Boyle, A Reedy v D Gray, A Pahina v Z Rolls.
D Boyle v A Wyrill, C Aramakutu v S Toa, T Reynolds v P Nepia, G McKinnon v J Witika.
C Christophers v T Leggett, S Pahina v B Cox, M Henwood v G Williams, D Rameka v M Christophers.
J Coppen v J Jenkins, M Gray v winner of C Uili v L Hayes.
K. White v W Morrissey, C Pipi v B Walker.
J Kerr, K Hay.
M Sheridan v S Maisey, B Woods v Pat.
J Akuhata, T Aramakatu, M Marino, J Foot, M Vette, T Ford.
Straight final on Sept 4.
LARRY Green needed only 34 points to win the stableford on Sunday, one ahead of Percy Milner.
L Green 34, P Milner 33, A Coker 32, S Te Rito 30, U Chambers 30, V Grace 29, T Brown 29.
P Milner.
LEE Steel and Lil Morgan made no contest of the President’s four-ball best-ball matchplay final.
The Steel/Morgan combo crushed Renee Hiko and Maraea Wesche 9 and 7 in the final.
Ian Parker was similarly dominant in the men’s stableford. His 95-32-63, for 44 points, won by six points from Bryce Cutler.
I Parker 44, B Cutler 38, A Steel 37, P Bremner 37, D Bremner 36, D Waihaki 36,Wayne Wesche 36, R Bremner 35.
J Thompson 106-35-71, F Wesche 85-13-72, M Wesche 73, E Westwood 74, P Dennigan 75, J Smyth 76.
Maraea Wesche 28.
AND then there were four.
The Makarika Cup men’s handicap semifinalists have been found.
Peter Ngarimu will take on Daryl Goldsmith while James Forrester faces off with Watarawi Ngata, who beat Mark Higham and won the men’s stableford on Sunday with 81-17-64, for 38 points.
Hazel Miratana broke 90 for the first time in four months to win the women’s net with 89-25-64.
W Ngata def M Higham, P Ngarimu def P Harrison, D Goldsmith def B Clark, J Forrester def Nehe Dewes.
W Ngata 81-17-64, 38; I Logan 85-20-65 37, P Ngarimu 36, D Goldsmith 36, P Harrison 36.
D Goldsmith, W Ngata.
H Miratana 89-24-65, P Summersby 75, G Roberts 76, H McClutchie 78.
G Roberts 28, H Miratana 29, P Summersby 29.
A hint of satisfaction was detected in John Hale’s voice when he rang in Tolaga Bay’s results this week.
Hale won the stableford on Sunday with 36 points, heading off BJ Sidney on countback.
J Hale 36, BJ Sidney 36, B Yates 35, J Murphy 35, P Stevenson 35.
B Yates.
UNLESS something miraculous or disastrous occurs over the weekend, William Brown will get his hands on the Dodgshun Cup for the third time.
Brown forged a seemingly uncatchable lead in the senior men’s division of the four-round cup series with an imperious 6-under 66 off the championship tees on Saturday.
His round, which featured eight birdies and a back nine holes of 32, gave him an 8-under total after two rounds (he shot 70 in round 1).
It put him 16 shots clear of second-placed Simon Jeune (79, 73) and even has the +2.2 handicapper sitting at the top of the senior net.
The Dodgshun Cup itself is a gross title for which players count their three best of four rounds.
Brown won it in 2014 — coincidentally 16 shots ahead of the runner-up — and 2018.
Peter Hakiwai remained top of the intermediate division gross on 167 (81, 86), three shots ahead of James Situ (87, 83), while Richard Foon marked his 60th birthday (officially Wednesday) with the best round 2 intermediate score — 81.
Bill Allen increased his junior division gross lead, adding 89 to his first-round 96 to be 11 shots clear of Peter Goodwin (98, 98).
Allen also leads the junior net while Darryn White is four shots ahead of Foon in the intermediate net.
The final two rounds of the series are on Saturday and Sunday.
Round 3 doubles as 18-hole qualifying for the men’s club championships. Senior division qualifying is 36 holes on Saturday.
A Witters 35.
V Fraser.
