GOLF ROUNDUP Golf Roundup compiled and edited by Chris Taewa. If you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed, contact The Gisborne Herald at 869-0633 or email sports@gisborneherald.co.nz
CLIVE Dean thinks getting hit three times by a stray ball in the past three years is about enough bad luck for one career.
“CD” is nursing a bruised collarbone after being felled while on the practice fairway before his Reynolds Cup top eight match on Saturday.
“I never go for a practice before a game but I had a spare moment so I went over to the practice fairway,” CD told Golf Roundup this week.
He was pulling out a club when “wham”, he was struck dead on the collarbone, sending him reeling.
The ball had come from a thinly-hit iron shot from a club member warming up near the practice green behind CD.
CD was hurting but decided to continue his match against Colin Simpson and started with a hiss and a roar, winning the first three holes.
But the pain eventually proved too much and he ended up pulling out after nine holes, handing victory to top qualifier Simpson.
CD said he had had more than his share of bad luck when it came to copping golf balls to body parts. This was third time unlucky in the past few years.
He painfully recalled standing on the 11th tee when a ball came flying from the neighbouring fourth hole and struck him square in the jaw.
The second was also on the practice area, a ball full-on to a butt cheek.
But when CD looks back on last Saturday, his lasting memory will be of a different incident.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said of Simpson’s miracle escape on the sixth hole.
“Simmo” shanked his tee-shot on the 120-metre par-3 hole over the fence only for his ball to ricochet off the kerb, rebound back across the road, through the fence and come to a stop three metres from the green.
“Colin was cursing,” said Andy Hayward, who was playing in his four. “He didn’t see the ball come back at all. CD and I were shaking our heads in disbelief.”
CD hit the right-side tree with his tee shot and lost the hole.
Simpson advanced to a semifinal clash with Tene Goldsmith, who beat Hayward 4 and 3.
The other semi pits Bruce Talbot against Jimmy Situ.
Talbot eliminated Peter Humphreys 2 and 1 while Situ needed an extra hole to knock out Mark Higham.
The boring route beat the scenic route as Odette Thompson won the 2021 Hutchinson Cup women’s matchplay title yesterday.
Thompson beat Sally Spence 4 and 3 in the final.
Thompson said it was “not always pretty golf” but it was “down the middle for me while Sally took the scenic route”.
The semifinals on Monday went the distance and then some.
Thompson beat Maxine Francois 1-up while Spence needed two extra holes to overcome Leigh Fletcher.
“Watch your father shoot 30.”
Those were the words from Golf Roundup editor Chris Taewa to 12-year-old Riki Reedy as they stood on the first tee at 9-hole twilight golf yesterday.
Riki’s dad Anaru duly obliged.
Electrinet Park member Anaru Reedy produced a phenomenal putting display to fire 6-under 30 on the front nine of the Bay.
Playing off a +5 — the lowest-handicapped player in the district — Reedy made birdies on the first, third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth holes.
Three of those birdies were two-pointers and the birdie on the fifth was after an eagle attempt that burned the edge of the hole.
Reedy had just 11 putts for the nine holes, suggesting he put everything close.
He didn’t. Only a few of those putts were tap-ins. The rest ranged from eight-foot to a 25-footer on the eighth hole.
He also up-and-downed twice out of bunkers for pars.
Reedy is a staggering 70-under for his golfing year to date.
Yesterday’s effort dropped his handicap from +2.9 to +3.3.
And it came while instructing his son, who had 17 points and is showing plenty of potential.
No surprise there.
O Thompson def Sally Spence.
G Young 89-16-73.
Maxine Francois 94-21-73,
F Pell 117-37-80.
L Daniels 50-14-36.
I McKinnon.
O Thompson def M Francois, Sally Spence def L Fletcher.
P Wanklyn 36, M Allan 32 on c/b.
B Morgan 38, C Taewa 34, B Talbot 33, D Patumaka 33.
K Travers 38, G Clapham 37, P Goodwin 36.
P Anderson, P Goodwin, S Jeune.
C Taewa.
M Jefferson 37, D Pirimona 36.
M Stewart 35, D Bush 34, P Goodwin 34.
D. Jenkins.
B Morrissey.
N Mackie 39, A Kirkpatrick 38.
H Johanson 33, J Pittar 33.
G Morley.
G Clapham.
Thistle Boys, Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust.
PGG Wrightson, Fruitfed Supplies.
Emerre and Hathaway.
Walton Whangapirita 1, Walton Whangapirita 2.
Wacck, Robin’s Hoods.
Family Four, Marg Lane.
Eastland Group.
Wolf Pack, BDO Fourplay.
Trust Tairawhiti, Team Daly Bayleys.
AMFs, Turihaua Station.
Taste One, Friday Boys.
BMS, Gisborne Motors.
Eddie Pirini, MTF.
Liquorland, Safe H2O East Coast.
Cedenco, ECES Dominators.
Hells Angels, Birgitt Whyte.
IF it was an America’s Cup race, BJ Sidney and Hazel Miratana would have won by a leg.
It was, instead, Te Puia Springs’ open opening tournament on Sunday.
Tolaga Bay/Te Puia combo Sidney and Miratana made no race of the mixed pairs, their 47-point haul well clear of the chasing pack.
Ian Logan showed his previous weekend’s winning effort was no flash in the pan. He won the men’s stableford with 42 points, with Tolaga’s Rongo Pomana second on 40.
B Sydney/H Miratana 47, P Milner /Mihi 43, F Wesche/I Sykes 42, Tim/D Goldsmith 41, T Ruru/M Tuapawa 41, I Ruru/E Wynyard 37, J Devery/G Roberts 37, R Ngatai/D Cook 37.
I Logan 42, R Pomana 40, D Goldsmith 39, B Clark 36, R Smith 35, T Higgs 35, H Schreiber 35, A Higham 35.
F Wesche/I Sykes, V Grace/L Green, M de Luze, B Wallace, Wade Wescshe, J Brown.
SUCCESS breeds success.
Zane Boyle is riding the momentum of his senior men’s handicap cup triumph, following it with a win in the men’s net on Saturday.
Boyle capped his 74-5-69 with a two on the fifth hole.
It was two colours only — blue for bogey or white for par— for Paul Wellard on the handicap website in his men’s stableford-winning efforts on Sunday.
Wellard mixed 13 pars and five bogeys in his 85-14-71, for 37 points.
P Wellard 37, D Rameka 37, D Harrison 36.
A Reedy, J Witika.
Z Boyle 69, A Pahina 73.
Z Boyle.
E Parkin 37, G Williams 36, H White 36, L Lexmond 36, P Mitchell 35, A Reedy 35, P Koorey 35, E Morley 35.
E Morley, P Koorey.
FAIRLANE Wesche’s short game set her up for victory in the LGU on Sunday.
Wesche had 26 putts in her 69.
Chris “Gid” Pitman rode a rollercoaster in topping the Foster men’s stableford.
His 78-6-72 featured three birdies — the seventh, eighth and 10th holes — and three double bogeys from 16 to 18.
F Wesche 69, V Kyle 79.
F Wesche 26.
C Pitman 36, D Bremner 33, B Maher 30, J Tihore 30.
B Maher.
V Kyle from L Morgan.
SOLID golf proved good enough over the week’s 18-hole competitions.
Pat Molloy’s 23 points in Friday’s meat pack 9-hole stableford stood out and Dave Dodgshun (22) was just behind him.
However, such scoring was not required over a full round during the weekend with Pat Hokianga (69), Pete Summersby (69) and Shelley Robertson (72) doing enough to top the podium.
S Robertson 84-12-72, M Philip 99-25-74, K McLatchie 100-26-74, J Ewart 96-22-74.
P Hokianga 69, L Anania 69, S Pohatu 69, D Pohatu 70, H Harris 70.
P Summersby 69, B McKenzie 70, A Hindmarsh 71, C Taylor 71, M Smith 73.
P Molloy 23, J Neilson 19, R Pardoe 17, A Hindmarsh 17.
D Dodgshun 22, L Jamieson 19, D Quinn 16, C Brown 16.
TOLAGA Bay’s open opening day tournament is on Sunday.
There are mixed pairs and men’s sections, teeing off from midday.
All are welcome.
THE golf wasn’t pretty but Bay of Plenty did enough to win the Shark Trophy annual vets’ clash with Gisborne East Coast this week.
BoP hosted the 36-hole stableford event played at Ohope and Opotiki.
It blew a gale at Ohope but conditions were benign and more conducive to golf at Opotiki.
The host region averaged 28 points to GEC’s 25 for the overall win.
Thirty-two men and women represented GEC while BoP lifted the numbers to 103 at Ohope and 90 at Opotiki.
Both courses were presented beautifully, said GEC Veteran Golfers Association chairman Jon Jenner.