Gisborne- East Coast golf roundup

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS: Two of Patutahi Golf Club’s major trophies were decided on Sunday. Above, Helen Pomana won the McKeague Cup women’s matchplay title while Tony Green won the Te Kani Pere men’s matchplay. Picture supplied

IT was not a case of sitting back and enjoying the ride but Anaru Reedy was happy to play second fiddle to his partner on the way to Te Kanawa Cup men’s glory.

Reedy and Pete Tamatea added their names to the long list of Te K champions on a trophy dating back to the days of the Turanganui Golf Club.

The pair defeated Derek “Red” Craven and Glen “G-Mac” McKinnon on the 17th hole of the handicap matchplay final on Sunday.

“Pete played awesome,” said Reedy. “I just sort of plodded away.”

His version of “plodding” differs from most. Off a +1.0 handicap, Reedy is the lowest handicapped player in Poverty Bay-East Coast and anchored the victorious combination throughout the series.

Park greenkeeper Tamatea complemented his mate and came through when it counted most on Sunday.

“I take my hat off to him,” Reedy said. “He got better as the round wore on.”

Trailing 1-down at the turn, Tamatea won the 10th to square it and a Reedy birdie-4 on 13 put them 1-up.

Tamatea’s par-3 on the 14th getting a shot made it 2-up and he followed up by sinking a pressure 7-foot par-putt for the half on 15 and halving the 16th.

Tamatea fittingly finished it on the 17th. Getting two shots off Reedy on the hole, he smacked his drive down the middle, put his second to within 10 metres of the green, then chipped to 2½ feet from the pin.

Craven and McKinnon raised the white flag and they all headed to the 19th where the trophy was filled and, as Reedy refers to his favourite tipple, several “cups of tea” were enjoyed.

G Hill from P Stewart.

M Alley 31.

S Paku.

A Reedy/P Tamatea def D Craven/G McKinnon.

J Kerr def C Pipi.

M Marino def T Ford.

D Webb 111-37-74, 35.

M Marino.

R Moore 35.

A Pahina.

A BIRDIE blitz earned Simon Jeune the bucks but not the glory as men of the land ploughed victory paths to the semifinals of the Barns-Graham Cup pairs on Saturday.

The semifinals of the Gisborne Motors-sponsored series feature three rural combinations — Tim Sherratt and Mark Gemmell, Mike Dodgshun and Brian Clarke, and Sam Willock and Marty Reynolds.

The fourth are semi-retired accountant Ross Gibson, who lives rurally and has a farming affinity through his work at Graham & Dobson Accountants, and Barry Brown, who has serviced plenty of farm-owned vehicles as service manager at Gisborne Motors.

Jeune and partner Dave Hall were among those being talked up as potential winners of the prestigious Barns-Graham Cup.

But they came up against a Dodgshun-Clarke machine, whose combination proved too slick on their way to a 2 and 1 win.

Reigning Poverty Bay Open champion Jeune, off a 1-handicap, threw five birdies in seven holes at the opposition, including the jackpot of two twos, which earned him $250 in credit.

It wasn’t enough and Clarke stayed in the hunt to add a second BG honour to his 2005 success with the late Eric Gordon, who won it four times over his illustrious career.

Brown is vying for a third BG Cup crown with three different partners. He won in 1994 with Mike Glassford and again in 2004 with his son Michael.

He and “Gibbo” Gibson kept their title hopes alive with a 2 and 1 win over father and son Daryl and Hayden Keast.

A couple of incidents stood out in this match for Gibson — Keast junior hitting his driver a long way out of bounds on the 12th when he had been smoking a 2-iron off the tee all day; and Keast senior’s air-chip — an airshot when chipping on to the 17th.

“We’re still there,” Sherratt exclaimed after their battle with stock agent duo Alex Kirkpatrick and Rob Fergus — a “pretty close” match that ended on the 16th.

“The old battlers are still alive,” Willock said of their 4 and 3 win over Richard Foon and Neville West.

Reynolds played “bloody well” on the front nine to lead them to a 4-up lead and when he fell apart on the back nine, Willock stepped in.

In Saturday’s semis, Sherratt and Gemmell face Gibson and Brown while Dodgshun and Clarke play Willock and Reynolds.

S Spence, K Shaw, V Fraser 159 from G Young, C Skuse, L Fletcher 156.

S Spence 74.

V Bell 33.

S Spence 2, L Fletcher.

J Loffler 21.

HAZEL Miratana’s putting anchored her women’s net win on Sunday.

Miratana posted 92-23-69 and her 31 putts was the best of the women.

James Forrester won the men’s stableford with 38 points.

H Miratana 92-23-69, H McClutchie 98-27-71, D Goldsmith 77.

H Miratana 31, H McClutchie 31, G Roberts 34.

J Forrester 38, G Summersby 36, J Miratana 33, R Smith 32, A Forrester 31, N Dewes 31.

ONLY half a stroke separated the top two in the Johnston Cup Canadian mixed foursomes at the weekend.

Lil Morgan and Ian Parker won on 71, with Renee Hiko and Wayne Wesche runners-up on 71.5. They were followed by Maraea Wesche and Wade Wesche, and Viv Kyle and Graham Shapland.

YOU could tell Tony Green all that matters is that his name on the Te Kani Pere Trophy for 2020 says he won, not how he won it. But he won’t be convinced.

“Call me a choker,” he joked after turning what was looking like being a straightforward victory into a nail-biter.

Green beat Chris Beattie in the Te Kani Pere Cup men’s matchplay final on Sunday.

A par on the 19th did the job but Green says it should have been over before that.

“I only had to two-putt the 17th to win it but three-putted.”

He was 1-up playing 18 but “boned” his second shot out of bounds — his ball ending up on the No.1 tee.

Green parred the first extra hole to Beattie’s bogey for the win.

The McKeague Cup women’s final went all the way. Helen Pomana and Lorraine Haisman were all-square playing the 18th, which Pomana won.

A Haisman 104-19-85, S Robertson 99-12-87.

T Green def C Beattie on the 19th.

H Pomana def L Haisman on the 18th.

G Brown 70, J Marsh 74, D Russell 74, W MacLellan 74.

S Eder 71, G Watson 71, B Wallace 72, P Hokianga 72.

D Johnston 78, S Robertson 83.

J Neilson.

M Stock 20, G Brown 18, B Wallace 18, O Willimott 18, H Harris 18.

I Tietjen 20, B Tietjen 20, M de Luze 18, A Nimmo 18, M Owen 18.

IKE Ruru’s blade work proved too sharp for the field in the putting competition on Sunday.

Ruru had 23 putts, one ahead of Larry Green, to top the men.

Valerie Grace’s 29 was the best of the women.

I Ruru 23, L Green 24, S Te Rito 30, T Brown 33.

V Grace 29, A Tamanui-Nunn 34.

L Green, A Tamanui-Nunn.

DION Milner’s first official round of the year proved a winning one.

The former Poverty Bay-East Coast representative, whose last 18 holes was in August of last year, comfortabaly won the men’s net on Sunday with 70-5-65.

His round featured just 23 putts.

D Milner 65, J Murphy 69, B Yates 69, R Pomana 72, M Grant 73, P Stevenson 73.

D Milner 23, B Yates 26, P Stevenson 27, T Higgs 27, R Pomana 27.