Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Gisborne ParkTWO trophies in two days . . . Fairlane Wesche won’t forget a weekend, which started and finished in glory.

The Mahia member combined forces with clubmate Ngapera McRoberts to win the 18-hole gross title at the Electrinet Park women’s open foursomes.

The duo shot 85 to head off Gisborne Park/Poverty Bay combo Jo Kerr and Lynne Holmberg.

Wesche was back on the road the next day, heading to Tolaga Bay where she helped Mahia to overall honours in the E.R. Black Cup interclub.

Park pair and good mates Wiki Morrissey and Blanche Walker won the 18-hole net at the foursomes, posting 76.

Shirley Paku and Karen McDonald were second.

Electrinet Park results, SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: M Emery 42, C Nepe 37, D Craven 36.

Twos: S Phillips, T Leggett.

SATURDAY — Electrinet Park women’s open foursomes, 18-hole gross: F Wesche/N McRoberts 85 from J Kerr/L Holmberg.

18-hole net: W Morrissey/B Walker 76 from S Paku/K McDonald, T Paku/S McRoberts, V Kyle/L Steele, M Marino/P Johansen.

Approach: J Utting/J MacKinnon.

Best third shot on 18: T Paku/S McRoberts.

WEDNESDAY (April 3) — Peter Hatwell women’s competition, round 1, net: T Ford 72.

Drawn two: J Foot.

TUESDAY (April 2) — Veteran men’s stableford: P Mitchell 37, A Lewington 36, B Walker 36, G Williams 36, B Dixon 35, E Parkin 35, P Koorey 34, C Palmer 33, M Hutton 33.

Twos: P Mitchell.

The semifinals of the women’s Handicap Cup are on SATURDAY. The draw is — No.1 tee, 9am: J Kerr v M Marino, K Hay v M Alley.

Finals are on SUNDAY.

COMING UP: SATURDAY/SUNDAY, Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs qualifying; SATURDAY/SUNDAY, April 20-21, Summit Forestry NZ Ltd 36-hole Easter Tournament, start sheet at office.

Poverty BayTHOMAS Donovan and Bruce Talbot will decide the 2019 Reynolds Cup men’s handicap matchplay championship.

Donovan came home strong to eliminate Alan Baldwin in a 19-hole semifinal tussle on Saturday while Talbot beat Mark Stewart 4 and 3.

Donovan trailed Baldwin 3-down with five holes to play but turned on par golf over the back nine to force extra holes.

The 5-handicapper, who had to give Baldwin more shots than the first round of tequilas at a bachelor party — 19 in all — made the 19th-hole green for regulation as his opponent struggled and ultimately conceded defeat.

Talbot finished his match in style with a birdie on the 15th.

The final is scheduled for Sunday.

Subsidiary cup finalists were also sorted out.

Cyril Payn and Andy Hayward will pit skills for the Willock Cup while James McGregor and Colin Christie are the Low Bros Cup finalists.

Sally Spence’s hot round yesterday brought her multiple success.

Spence fired 87-19-68, thanks largely to a front nine holes of 3-over 40 including birdies on the second and eighth holes.

Her efforts topped the Coronation Medal, Aotearoa Cup and Veterans’ Cup net competitions.

Entries are still being taken for the Smarty Pantz Quiz Night at Poverty Bay Golf Club tomorrow from 6pm.

Four to six people per team, $20 a head, which includes a barbecue dinner. A courtesy van will be operating. Register your team at johnvanhelden1304@gmail.com.

MONDAY — Mutt and Jeff women’s net on par-3s and par-5s: L. Fletcher 31.

Flag day: S. Spence.

WEDNESDAY — LGU, silver division: S Spence 87-19-68.

Bronze 1: K Crosby 97-25-72.

Bronze 2: P Zame 112-39-73.

Twos: S. Spence

Women’s national event, Coronation Medal net (0 to 18.4 handicap): S Spence 68.

Aotearoa Cup net (0 to 40.4 handicap): S Spence 68.

Veterans’ Cup net: S Spence 68.

9-holers’ LGU: J Alderson 60-19-41 on c/b.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: B Morgan 40, T Donovan 39, P Clayton 39 .

Division 2: D Pirimona 41, C Simpson 40,.

Twos: C Payn.

Approach: P Dow.

SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: S Andreassen 34, A Abrahams 31.

Division 2: C Christie 37, B Talbot 36.

Approach: A Reedy.

Reynolds and associated cups men’s matchplay, semifinals, Reynolds Cup: B Talbot def M Stewart, T Donovan def A Baldwin.

Willock Cup: C Payn def D Grant, A Hayward def A Abrahams.

Low Bros Cup: J McGregor def J Rouse, C Christie def B Read.

THURSDAY (April 4) — Men’s stableford, division 1: G Brown 40, G Morley 40, A Abrahams 39, C Poole 36, C Dean 36.

Division 2: J Williams 42, B Hall 41, M Smith 37, M Mulrooney 36, P Graham 36 .

Twos: R Owen, S Harbottle, G Morley, B Hall.

Approach: G Morley.

PatutahiGEORGE Brown clearly likes the third hole at Patutahi.

For the second Sunday in a row, he made birdie on the 274-metre par-4 and this time went on to win the men’s stableford with 76-11-65, for 41 points.

Gary “Bubba” Watson was a point back in second and no doubt will be considering throwing a few bucks on the real “Bubba” in his bid to win a third Masters at Augusta over the weekend.

The tee-off time for Sunday club golf from this weekend on has been changed from 12.30pm to 12 noon.

TUESDAY — Women’s net: S Robertson 90-15-75, L Haisman 103-27-76, J Winiata 96-19-77.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: G Brown 41, G Watson 40, C Beattie 37, H Harris 36, P Molloy 36.

Twos: D Skudder.

FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: Skylah Pohatu 21, P Hokianga 20, Sel Pohatu 20.

Junior division: L Jamieson 23, D Bentley 21, D Tarry 21.

TUESDAY (April 2) — Women’s stableford: L Haisman 99-28-71, 35; S Robertson 102-23-79, 28.

Tolaga BayTOLAGA Bay is hosting round 2 of the Poverty Bay-East Coast Endeavour men’s interclub pennants on Saturday.

Tee-off is 11am and members are asked to bring a plate.

The OB Cranswick/Harry Higgs stableford trophy tournament is on Sunday. Tee-off is 12 noon and all are welcome.

MahiaWATER, water everywhere . . . and all a golf ball could do was sink.

That was the story for Mahia on Saturday as heavy rain destroyed any chance of the opening round of the Poverty Bay-East Coast Endeavour men’s interclub pennants going ahead.

It should, hopefully, be all go this weekend for the national women’s teams’ net qualifying round — the top four players representing the club in Hawke’s Bay on April 29.

Mahia men head to Tolaga Bay on Saturday for round 2 of the Endeavour pennants.

InterclubMAHIA put mighty in front of its name with a victory in the E.R. Black Cup annual interclub competition hosted by Tolaga Bay on Sunday.

The Mahia team made up for not being able to play at their home course on Saturday due to the weather by claiming the prestigious Canadian mixed pairs aggregate stableford interclub crown.

Mahia’s five combinations totalled 185 points — seven points clear of runners-up Te Puia Springs.

Fairlane Wesche and Bruce Maher and Wayne Wesche and Renee Hiko led the way for the Mahitians. Both pairs contributed 39 points while Colleen Wesche and Pete Bremner had 38, Maria Wesche and Bernie Crowley 36 and Maraea Wesche and Tegal Smith 33.

The Springs were one point ahead of Tolaga Bay (177), followed by Poverty Bay on 175, defending champions Waikohu 173, Gisborne Park 162 and Patutahi 150.

The best overall pair on the day was Tolaga Bay’s Dan Maitai and Thelma Waru, who had 41 points.

The E.R. Black Cup dates back to 1959 and it was the first time Mahia had won it since 2014.

Waikohu will host the cup next year.

Men’s pennantsPatutahi made a huge statement of intent in the opening round of the 2019 Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants at Te Puia Springs on Saturday.

The ’Tahi boys landed uppercuts, a couple of haymakers and a flurry of jabs on defending champions Poverty Bay (1) in an 8-4 team victory.

The teams were locked 2-all after the morning foursomes but Patutahi took control in the afternoon singles — Eddie Brown Junior beating 2018 player of the pennants William Brown 3 and 1, Hukanui Brown defeating Pete Anderson and Tony Akroyd outgunning Simon Jeune.

The only PB player to emerge unscathed was Pete Kerekere, who saved his side from a singles whitewash with victory over Jace Brown.

Patutahi ended the round joint top with Tolaga Bay, who won their neighbourhood-bragging-rights battle with Te Puia 8-4 — Taine Lincoln and uncle Tere Lincoln finishing the day with two-from-two records for Tolaga.

Gisborne Park and Poverty Bay (2) shared the spoils 6-apiece.

Anuresh Chandra made the perfect debut for Park, with foursomes and singles wins.

PB (2) fill-in Glenn Morley also had a successful first Oligoi showing, sinking a 10-foot clutch putt on the 18th to halve the foursomes, then winning his singles.

PB (2) were on track for a narrow win only for Park’s Bo Huhu to come from 4-down with five holes to play to halve with Peter Stewart.

Round 2 is at Patutahi on Saturday.

The weather gods put paid to Mahia hosting the first round of the Endeavour men’s pennants on Saturday.

Rain saturated the course, including multiple flooded greens, and the round was called off.

Round 2 is at Tolaga Bay on Saturday.

Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants results –

Tolaga Bay 8 Te Puia Springs 4 (Tolaga Bay names first) — Foursomes: Bruce Yates/Taine Lincoln def Andrew Higham/Regan Hindmarsh, Neil Hansen/Tere Lincoln def Jason Devery/Brian Morrissey. Singles: Yates lost to Higham, Taine Lincoln def Hindmarsh, Hansen lost to Devery, Tere Lincoln def Morrissey.

Gisborne Park 6 Poverty Bay (2) 6 — Foursomes: Anuresh Chandra/Rob Taylor def Alister Jennings/George Brown, Bo Huhu/Selwyn Peneha halved with Glenn Morley/Peter Stewart. Singles: Chandra def Jennings, Taylor lost to Brown, Peneha lost to Morley, Huhu halved with Stewart.

Patutahi 8 Poverty Bay (1) 4 — Foursomes: Jace Brown/Eddie Brown jr lost to Peter Kerekere/William Brown, Hukanui Brown/Tony Akroyd def Pete Anderson/Simon Jeune. Singles: J Brown lost to Kerekere, E Brown jr def W Brown, H Brown def Anderson, Akroyd def Jeune.

VeteransTHE Kiri Te Kanawa veterans’ open tournament is at Poverty Bay tomorrow.

Those playing 18 holes tee off from 9am and 9-holers start from 9.30am.

Players are asked to arrive in good time for a cup of tea and a bite to eat, and to scan their cards at the pro shop after their game, then take them upstairs for the lucky card draw.

If the weather is doubtful, the Gisborne East Coast Veteran Golfers’ Society will let players know through email if it is postponed.