Golf Roundup

The Enterprise Cars men’s open foursomes scheduled for this Saturday has been postponed.

The passing of much-respected Manutuke kuia Maude Brown this week has seen the withdrawal of several players so the Poverty Bay men’s committee, in consultation with the sponsors, decided to postpone the foursomes to Saturday, May 28, out of respect to those players affected.

Those already entered are asked to confirm with the pro shop if they intend to remain in the field.

Following requests, the committee has also decided to add a women’s and mixed pairs divisions to the open which has traditionally been a men’s-only event.

Many golfers were among those who farewelled popular “leftie” Robin Foster at Evans Chapel this week.

Robin was no Phil Mickelson but he left an indelible mark on the golfing fraternity over his time at Poverty Bay with his quick wit and charm.

The former co-owner of Foster and Tyler garage in Mangapapa, Robin was always happy to point out the supposed superiority of Holden over Ford and he enjoyed a bit of success on the course, including more than one division win at the Gisborne East Coast veterans’ open.

And not many, if any, have holed out with a 3-wood for eagle-2 on the 10th (August, 2006).

Robin will be missed.

Gay Young won the Viv Swann Salver women’s net on Friday with 89-18-71. Her round was a triple success as she also topped the LGU 2 silver division and the veteran women’s stableford.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: S Jeune 38, D White 37, J Kerekere 37, D Twigley 35, C Simpson 35.

Division 2: J Willoughby 40, G Clapham 40, P Humphreys 39, J Rowe 38, N Jones 38, D Hall 36.

Twos: M Callaghan, J Kerekere, G Clapham, D Patumaka, S Jeune.

Approach: K Travers.

SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: V Richardson 38, D Griffin 35, N Mackie 32.

Division 2: P Wauchop 32, J McGregor 32, D Wright 31, B Simpson 31.

Twos: V Richardson 2, C Poole.

Approach: C Poole.

Jackpot: V Richardson.

FRIDAY — Viv Swann Salver women’s net: G Young 71.

Twos: J Williams.

LGU 2, silver division: G Young 89-18-71.

Bronze 1: T Lewis 99-25-74.

Bronze 2: J Williams 115-40-75.

9 holers: C McDonald 41.

Veteran women’s stableford: G Young 39.

9-holers’ stableford: J Alderson 15.

Thursday (April 21) — Men’s stableford, division 1: C Dean 38, T Goldsmith 38, C Poole 36, G Morley 35, C Christie 35, J Pittar 35.

Division 2: P Humphreys 34, M Smith 34, W Thompson 34, S Willock 33.

Twos: I Murphy, B Colbert.

Approach: S Harbottle.

COMING UP: WEDNESDAY, May 4, Pharmacy 53/Beaufoy women’s open and Northern Zone women’s interclub pennants.

A sensational back nine holes made up for a front-nine struggle as Jandy Winiata powered to victory in the women’s stableford on Sunday.

Winiata had 85-18-67, for 40 points. She had 48 for the first nine and 3-over 38 for the second in her best official round at Patutahi since an 83 in February 2019.

The club sends its love and condolences to the whānau of Patutahi stalwart “Nanny” Maude Brown, who passed away this week.

TUESDAY — Women’s net: S Robertson 91-17-74, L Haisman 102-25-77.

MONDAY — Anzac Day all-in stableford: R Moleta 37, C Taylor 36, J Brown 36, S Watson 34.

Twos: P Hokianga.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, senior division: D Pohatu 40, G Brown 37, J Neilson 37, J Brown 35, W Brown 34.

Junior division: M de Luze 38, B Pohatu 34, R Moleta 33, J Blair 31.

Women’s stableford: J Winiata 40, L Haisman 31.

Twos: D Pohatu, E Brown Jr.

FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: G Brown 21, W MacLellan 20, A Blakeman 19, M Pohatu 18.

Junior division: P Briant 20, T Sharp 18, G Holland 17, H Pomana 17.

The Springs continues to recover from recent flooding and beautiful weather helped on Sunday despite a couple of cows getting through fences.

Scoring wasn’t easy.

Hiria McClutchie’s net 79 topped the second round of the President’s Cup for women, with Iritana Ngarimu a stroke back.

Henry Rasmussen won the men’s stableford with a modest 34 points, one ahead of Peter Ngarimu.

The club extended its gratitude to the reinforcements from other clubs who have helped fill the men’s team for the Endeavour interclub.

SUNDAY — President’s Cup women’s net, round 2: H McClutchie 79, I Ngarimu 80, D Goldsmith 82.

LGU putting: I Ngarimu 30, M Puke 32, H Miratana 35.

Men’s stableford: H Rasmussen 34, P Ngarimu 33, P Harrison 32.

Twos: J Forrester.

Keenan Ruru-Poharama’s handicap is dropping . . . and fast.

Ruru-Poharama ran away with the men’s stableford on Sunday with 88-25-63, for 43 points.

His 32.5 WHS index on the day has been slashed to 23.5.

Val Grace’s 35 points topped the women’s stableford.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: K Ruru-Poharama 43, L Green 39, T Smith 34, K Tamanui 34.

Women’s stableford: V Grace 35, A Tamanui-Nunn 33, C Te Rito 30.

Twos: E Wynyard.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, men’s handicap singles semfinals, LGU Te Pairi, Coronation, Aotearoa and Vets cups for women.

Pete Bremner underlined why he has been Mahia’s best golfer for many years in winning the men’s stableford on Sunday.

Bremner shot 2-under 70-0-70, for 38 points. His round featured a 3-under 33 on the front nine, including a two.

Lee Steel’s 78-38-34 won the Stevenson net-minus-stableford.

SUNDAY — Stevenson net-minus-stableford women’s competition: Lee Steel 72-38-34, F Wesche 40, T Smith 46, A Campbell 47.

Men’s stableford: P Bremner 38, C Carroll 34, W Albert 32, D Bremner 32, J Aitchison 31, R Bremner 30.

Twos: P Bremner.

Pete Stewart needed only 34 points to win the men’s stableford on Sunday.

Stewart shot 78-4-74, for 34 points.

Shirley Paku and Maria Sheridan totalled 62 points to win the women’s drawn partners combined stableford last Wednesday.

Sunday — Men’s stableford: P Stewart 34, D Mauheni 33, C Christophers 33.

Twos: T Akroyd, M Christophers.

Wednesday (April 20) — Women’s drawn partners combined stableford: S Paku/M Sheridan 62.

TUESDAY (April 19) — Veteran men’s stableford: E Parkin 35, S Phillips 31, J White 30, C Brown 30, G Williams 29, W Carpendale 29, H Schreiber 29.

Twos: E Parkin, H Schreiber, S Phillips.

Tolaga Bay proved the host with the most in round 2 of the Endeavour men’s interclub handicap pennants on Saturday.

The home club’s six-man team collected four matchplay wins (four points for a win, two for a half) to jump to the top of the table on 32 points.

Joe Sheridan was the individual star of the day, racking up 40 stableford points in his victory.

BJ Sidney, Murray Yates and Pete Stevenson also had wins for Tolaga Bay.

Another two Tolaga members — Peewee Tuapawa and Will Yates — were lent to Te Puia Springs for the round and it proved lucrative.

The Springs won five of their matches. Tuapawa and Yates had wins, along with Daryl Goldsmith, Peter Harrison and Roly Smith.

The 20 points Te Puia collected moved them to third-equal with Electrinet Park 1 on 26 points.

Park 1 had brothers Craig and Michael Christophers to thank for their two wins.

Waikohu, who led after round 1, also had only two victors — Ike Ruru and Uma Chambers — and dropped to second overall on 28 points.

Electrinet Park 2 picked up 16 valuable points courtesy of wins to Tony Leggett, Wayne Carpendale, Steve Phillips and Derek Craven.

They are sitting alongside Patutahi on 22 points.

Tom Hindmarsh, George Brown and Pat Hokianga chalked up wins for the ’Tahi.

Wins to Graham Shapland and David Waihaki moved Mahia to 20 points.

Poverty Bay are bringing up the rear on 16 points after wins to brothers Tene and Kit Goldsmith.

Round 3 is at Mahia on May 7.

A report and results from the third and fourth rounds of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants will be in tomorrow’s Herald.