THREE father-son combos remain in the hunt for Te Kanawa Cup glory after a busy weekend of men’s pairs handicap matchplay.
Of the five father-son pairs among the 21 qualifiers, two were ousted.
Cliff Nepe and John Collier ended the hopes of Geoff and Tamanui Hill in a sudden-death playoff round 2 match on Sunday.
Fourth qualifiers Anthony and Shaun Pahina were also round 2 casualties, beaten on the 18th by 20th-seeded Glynn and Alan Williams.
The Williamses were among 10 pairs who had round 1 matches on Saturday. They beat Paul Wellard and Rob Taylor to set up a father-son duel with the Pahina men.
Top seeds Steve and Zach Rolls advanced to the quarterfinals with a 2 and 1 win over Ray Grace and Terry Pointon — teenager Zach continuing the form he showed in a junior men’s club championship match at Poverty Bay the day before.
The “Rolls Royces” next face Rod Moore and Dave Rameka, who charged home against Roger McGann and Brian Lumsden-Nicholls.
Moore and Rameka trailed 3-down after 13 holes but won the next four. and Moore sealed the win by putting his second shot near-stiff on the 18th for birdie.
Anaru Reedy showed why he is on a +3 handicap. The first-season Park player and greenkeeper Pete Tamatea defeated Wally Whangapirita and Steve Phillips on the 18th — Reedy slotting a 20-footer from off the green for birdie to seal the deal.
There was no “Boyle-over” in the match between the second and 18th seeds — No.2-ranked Danny and Zane Boyle comfortably accounting for brothers Selwyn and Quentin Peneha 4 and 3.
By far the oldest combo left, Barry Cox and Jack Glassford, knocked out Tony File and Tom Reynolds to set up a quarterfinal with the Boyles.
Jack will be out to deny them a Te K Cup-winning feat he achieved with his father — the late Boo Glassford — many moons ago.
Nepe/Collier avenged last year’s loss to Bo Huhu and Pete Koorey in round 1 on Saturday. They backed that up on Sunday against the Hills, although needed three extra holes in a pressure-cooker clash.
Their reward was a Sunday quarterfinal clash with Reedy and Tamatea.
The eighth quarterfinalists are yet to be found. Derek Craven and Glen McKinnon will battle Dave Harrison and Tom Teneti this Saturday for that slot and a match against the Williams combination.
: D Rameka 72, R Moore 73.
B Reynolds, H Schreiber.
L Brown 36.
J Foot, J Muir.
A Reedy/P Tamatea v C Nepe/J Collier. B Cox/J Glassford v D Boyle/Z Boyle. G Williams/A Williams v winner of D Craven/G McKinnon v D Harrison/T Teneti. S Rolls/Z Rolls v R Moore/D Rameka.
R Grace/T Pointon v R McGann/B Lumsden-Nicholls. A Pahina/S Pahina v losers of D Craven/ G McKinnon v D Harrison/T Teneti. S Peneha/Q Peneha v T File/T Reynolds. G Hill/T Hill v S Phillips/W Whangapirita.
GAY Young (15-handicap) and Vicki Fraser (28) are the 2020 Kahlenberg Cup women’s pairs champions after a nail-biting extra-hole final against Leigh Fletcher (30) and Peri Gayford (22) yesterday.
Young, after putting her third shot through the back of the par-5 first extra hole, chipped on, then sank a 9-foot putt for par to seal the victory.
There was little between the pairs throughout the handicap match, which was all-square at the nine-hole halfway point.
For Young, it was a fifth Kahlenberg Cup title dating back to 2001.
Fraser earned her second Kahlenberg crown 20 years after her first.
In the semifinals, Young and Fraser beat Sally Spence and Colleen Skuse while Fletcher and Gayford ousted Jan Utting and Fay Pell.
Sue Kemp and Birgitt Whyte defeated Pauline Zame and Verna Harnett in the Kahlenberg Plate final.
Teenager Ellen Ball bettered her personal best round at the Awapuni Links three times in three days. Ball shot 4-over 78 on Friday, followed it up on Saturday with 78, then improved it again on Sunday with 76.
G Young/V Fraser def L Fletcher/P Gayford on 19th.
L Fletcher/P Gayford def J Utting/F Pell, G Young/V Fraser def S Spence/C Skuse.
S Kemp/B Whyte def V Bell/J Tietjen.
S Kemp/B Whyte def P Zame/V Harnett, V Bell/J Tietjen def J MacKinnon/L Shepherd.
D Sherratt 35, F Allen 34, T Lewis 32 on c/b.
A Gemmell.
J Ngarimu 40.
S Armstrong def R Dymock, C MacDonald def A Sutton.
K Shaw 35.
V Fletcher.
A Hayward 39, M Norman 37, T Donovan 37, P Stewart 36, D Patumaka 35.
M Karalus 38, C Simpson 36, D Hall 35.
T Donovan, P Stewart, A White, A Kirkpatrick.
J van Helden 39, T Needham 36, A Kirkpatrick 35.
D Williams 35, B Simpson 34.
T Sweeney 38, D Griffin 36, T Williams 35.
B Allen 36, P Graham 35, B Clarke 35, M Mulrooney 33.
M Mulrooney, G Morley, B Clarke.
THE new handicap system and the advent of winter are likely reasons for modest weekend scoring at the ’Tahi over the weekend.
With most players’ handicaps having reduced under the World Handicap System and a decided decrease in run on the course, net 68 was the best competition score on Sunday.
That effort came from Mike de Luze, who won the junior division and had a two.
Lyall Anania’s 78-7-71 was good enough to win the senior men’s net while Denise Johnston posted 73 to top the women’s competition.
L Anania 71, E Brown jr 72, T Green 73, R Hindmarsh 73.
M de Luze 68, M Weaver 71, B Wallace 72, R Pardoe 72.
D Johnston 73, H Pomana 78.
A Higham, E Brown jr, T Akroyd, C Beattie, M de Luze.
C Beattie.
H Brown.
Sel Peneha 21, B McKenzie 19, M de Luze 19, D Russell 18, R Pardoe 16.
D Somerton 21, J Graham 21, P Jex-Blake 20, I Tietjen 18, J Brodie 18.
HAULS of 41 points from Mickey Grant and Bruce Yates headed the stableford competition on Sunday.
M Grant 41, B Yates 41, R Pomana 40, S Kemp 36, A Hale 35.
HIRIA McClutchie and Mark Higham wore winning smiles in Sunday club competitions.
McClutchie won the women’s net with 1190-28-72 while Higham’s 6-over 72, including three birdies, for 37 points won the men’s stableford.
H McClutchie 110-28-72, G Roberts 91-14-77, I Ngarimu 104-26-78.
G Roberts 32, I Ngarimu 33, D Goldsmith 36.
M Higham 37, H Rasmussen 36, J Puha 34, J Miratana 33, B Clark 33, N Dewes 33, G Summersby 32.
P Ngarimu.
LARRY Green and Marg Tuapawa enjoyed success over both days of the golfing weekend.
Green won the men’s gross while Tuapawa won the women’s net in the club open competition on Saturday.
The pair joined forces with Val Grace the next day to win the ambrose stableford with 43 points on countback from Ike Ruru, Percy Milner and Audrey Tamanui-Nunn.
L Green/V Grace/M Tuapawa 43 from I Ruru/P Milner/A Tamanui-Nunn 43, U Chambers/K Tamanui/T Smith 39.
L Green 83, U Chambers 93.
T Ruru 74, K Tamanui 75.
T Brown 32, I Ruru 26.
M Tuapawa 73.
A Tamanui-Nunn 32.
T Brown, I Ruru, V Grace.
T Ruru, S Te Rito, E Wynyard.
A Tamanui-Nunn, T Brown.