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IF the past two years are anything to go on, someone is going to shoot their age at the Peter Rouse Memorial tournament on Sunday.
Brian Morrissey achieved that feat in the 2019 Rouse Memorial — shooting 67 at the age of 75 — and Peter Harrison did the same in last year’s edition — 73 at 74 years young.
The 2021 Rouse Memorial is being held this Sunday and will once again feature trophies for the men’s and women’s net scores.
It is a rolling start from 10.30am to midday and entry includes twos.
All are welcome.
The tournament honours the Poverty Bay-East Coast legend and Te Puia Springs stalwart, who died in a quad bike accident on a farm near Tokomaru Bay in 2012.
Jared Marsh marked the Waitangi holiday weekend with a special round on Monday.
Marsh had four birdies in his 1-under-par 69-7-62 which won him the senior men’s net.
The Skudder whanau did the double on Sunday.
Shayde Skudder won the senior men’s net with a fine 4-under 66-+1-67.
Grandfather Dave Skudder topped the junior division with 84-18-66.
Denise Johnston (69) and Helen Pomana (73) won the women’s net competitions over the holiday break.
Former world superboats champion Pete Briant ran away from plenty of competitors in his jetsprinting days. He turned Friday’s meat pack 9-hole stableford into a one-horse race, winning the junior division with 38-12-26 for a whopping haul of 28 points.
J Marsh 62, A Hindmarsh 64, C Taylor 67, P Johnston 69.
D Johnston 69.
D Johnston, T Green.
S Skudder 67, G Brown 68, A Nimmo 68, T Hindmarsh 69, J Neilson 70.
D Skudder 66, K Donovan 70, C Brown 72, B Pohatu 72, S Maynard 72.
H Pomana 73, R Burgess 74.
D Pohatu.
G Brown 22, T Hindmarsh 20, M Owen 20, C Parker 20, J Neilson 19.
P Briant 28, D Hamilton 22, K Donovan 22, S Fookes 22, A Spearman 21.
THE Park course was the victim of multiple arsons on Sunday but the culprits were more than happy to be apprehended.
The annual East Coast Fire Brigades tournament produced scoring hot enough to melt tar.
Wiki Morrissey needed 19th-hole extinguishing, turning back the clock to her single-figure-handicap days in winning the women’s net with 79-16-63.
Jacque Akuhata-Nickerson was just behind her, carding 86-21-65 to win the women’s stableford.
Anaru Reedy turned on another master class in winning the men’s A section gross with a 6-under 66 that featured eight birdies and a homeward nine holes of 32.
Jo Kerr’s 6-over 79 was the top women’s gross.
Te Araroa volunteer firefighter Dick Cook had a successful day. He won the best fire service best net with 68 and combined with Te Puia Springs clubmate Doreen Goldsmith to win the best pairs.
Hastings’ Tony Versteeg (73) won the gross and Kelly Humphries the stableford with 41 points.
The Gisborne B team of Pat Hogan, Humphries and Dennis Jenkins won the brigade team of 3.
Waikohu’s Larry Green produced the shot of the day — an eagle-2 on the 315-metre 5th hole.
T Versteeg 73.
D Cook 68.
K Humphries 41.
Gisborne B (P Hogan, K Humphries, D Jenkins).
Te Araroa (D Cook, D Goldsmith.
T Smith 113.
A Reedy 66.
P Wellard 83.
T Lewis 94.
J Kerr.
P Nepia.
N Dewes 68.
E Hindmarsh 71.
W Morrissey 63.
J Situ 40.
W Chung 39.
L Lexmond 36.
J Akuhata-Nickerson 44.
L Green.
Chris Taewa can expect a Facebook message from Stu Harbottle after his pot-kettle-black moment on Sunday.
Golf Roundup reporter Taewa was quick to highlight Harbottle’s near-air-putt from tap-in distance that eliminated him from the men’s shootout final last year.
On Sunday, Taewa nonchalantly walked up to his ball perched near the edge of the hole only to swing his putter over the top of it.
Taewa’s Reed-like claim he was swatting a sandfly fell on deaf ears and he was obliged to add one to his score and perform the customary air-shot whisky shout for his playing group on the 19th.
He was fortunate it was not enough to prevent him from winning the division 2 men’s stableford with 78-11-67, for 41 points.
Mark Jefferson’s excellent 1-over 73-5-68, for 40 points, won him the division 1 men’s competition.
Former Poverty Bay-East Coast No.1 Dean Twigley was a point behind Jefferson but his form since returning to the game has caught the eye of over-40s representative team selectors. Twigley shot even-par 72 on Sunday, having carded 70 mid-January.
Other winners over the week were Gray Clapham (37pts) and Murray Parkes (38) on Saturday and Andy Abrahams (40) and Dallas Atkins (37 on Thursday.
According to Golf Roundup sources, Mark Stevens recently shot 3-under 69 while playing 18 holes by himself.
M Jefferson 40, W Mortleman 40, D Twigley 39, B Morgan 37.
C Taewa 41, D Hall 40, B Payne 39, R Johnstone 39.
C Taewa, W Mortleman, A White, B Morgan, P Kerekere, P Stewart, R Gibson.
W Mortleman.
G Clapham 37, M Harvey 37, J Van Helden 36, S Andreassen 35.
M Parkes 38, M Stewart 37, R Morgan 37, A Destry 37.
S Andreassen.
G Morley.
A Abrahams 40, I Murphy 38, W Mortleman 37, C Poole 36.
D Atkins 37, B Read 36, J Pittar 36, R Owen 35.
C Poole, B Read, P Graham.
J Pittar.
PROBABLY the youngest veteran in New Zealand is also among the best of his recently-entered age bracket.
Anaru Reedy, who turned 50 earlier this year, marked his first official competition as a member of Gisborne East Coast Veteran Golfers Society with one of the lowest-ever scores by an amateur at the Poverty Bay course.
Electrinet Park member Reedy shot 7-under 65 off a +4 handicap off the white tees.
It was the second time he has achieved the score at the Bay.
The first was on October 22, 2017, and featured two eagle-2s on the back nine, along with three bogeys on the card.
His latest effort was a flawless one that included a 6-under 30 for the front nine holes. He also had a birdie on 10, making it five birdies on the trot from the sixth hole.
However, Reedy could not find another birdie, finishing with eight consecutive pars.
The lowest official score by an amateur off the white tees at Poverty Bay is 64, which Andrew Higham recorded on April 17, 2018, and was highlighted by a hole-in-one on the par-3 second.
Waka Donnelly signed for 64 on January 6 of 1991, but it was unofficial as it featured a gimme birdie on the first hole.
Several other players have had 65s off the white tees over the years — Eric Gordon, Dean Twigley, former Poverty Bay club professional Steve Cooper, Peter Kerekere and William Brown.
The championship (blue tees) course record is 64 held by professional Pieter Zwart (2013) and Kerry Mountcastle (at last year’s New Zealand amateur).
Despite Reedy’s outstanding effort, which followed a 6-under 66 at his home course on Sunday and reduced his handicap to +2.3, it was no winning veterans debut.
The best round of the 56 players who took part in the stableford came from Patutahi’s Andrea Haisman — 90-24-66, for 44 points.
One point behind her was Poverty Bay’s Rob Fletcher (91-26-65, for 43), followed by Blanche Walker (42) and Gisborne Park clubmate Phil Simpson (40).
Reedy was among a group who had 39.