GOLF ROUNDUP

Danny Boyle's first shot of the 2022 King of the Coast Open over the weekend did not exactly fill him with confidence.

“It can only get better from here,” the Electrinet Park member said to his opponent after hitting his drive into the swamp on the fourth hole — their first.

It did. A lot. Boyle won the hole with a seven to his opponent's eight, and went on to win all four of his matches to claim the third 16 title of the annual matchplay tournament.

“It was unexpected,” “DB” said after disposing of Patutahi's Tom Hindmarsh 6 and 4 in the final.

“It came out of nowhere, I hadn't been playing very well.”

Jason Devery needed an extra hole to get past Kawerau's Max Ratana in his first round of the Cook Handicap second 16.

From there, one of the newest members of Gisorne Park proved unstoppable and went on to defeat local Tere Lincoln 4 and 3 in the final.

The Hauiti Handicap was an all Tolaga Bay affair, with Murray Yates beating BJ Sidney 3 and 2.

SUNDAY — King of the Coast men's open, championship 16, final: William Brown def Anaru Reedy.

Third: Dwayne Russell.

Flight: Ray Shields from Regan Hindmarsh.

Plate: Andrew Higham.

Consolation: Tuakana August.

Cook Handicap second 16, final: Jason Devery def Tere Lincoln.

Third: Tim Adamson.

Flight: Bruce Maher from Wayne Wesche.

Plate: Craig Newbrook.

Consolation: Mark Watts.

Uawa Handicap third 16, final: Danny Boyle from Tom Hindmarsh.

Third: Toby Williams.

Flight: Reece Fenn from Will Yates.

Plate: Steve Phillips.

Consolation: Athol Glover.

Hauiti Handicap fourth 16, final: Murray Yates def BJ Sidney.

Third: Rob Fergus.

Flight: Jeremy Murphy from Campbell Richardson.

Plate: Allan Carswell.

Consolation: Rodney Conrad.

Twos: W Brown 4, T Hindmarsh 2, D Milner 2, R Pomana 2, P Milner, H Brown, D Boyle, T Williams, W Yates, T Donovan, A Higham, Z Boyle, R Conrad.

Dean Pohatu controlled the first round of club championship qualifying in the absence of the big guns.

Pohatu fired 76 off the stick and also won the net with 72.

Terry Reeves was second with 78-5-73.

Several of the club's top players were in Tolaga Bay for the King of the Coast open, including reigning senior men's champion Hukanui Brown.

Rocky Pardoe won the junior men's net with 83-15-68.

Defending senior womens champion Denise Johnston shot 90-12-78 and won the women's net.

SUNDAY — Club championship first round of qualifying, senior men's net: D Pohatu 72, T Reeves 73, S Marsh 74.

Junior men's net: R Pardoe 68, G Holland 71, C Taylor 74.

Women's net: D Johnston 78.

Twos: J Priestley.

FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: W MacLellan 17, A Blakeman 16, P Johnston 15, A Nimmo 14.

Junior division: D Humphrey 21, P Briant 18, C Kirkpatrick 15, B Williams 14.

Hiria McClutchie and Pauline Summersby remain alive in the intermediate women's club championship.

McClutchie defeated Iritana Ngarimu 2-up while Summersby eliminated Robyn Ngatai also on the 18th in round 1 matches on Sunday.

Hazel Miratana and Georgina had byes into round 2.

Doreen Goldsmith and Makita Puke are in the junior women's final.

Ngarimu took consolation from her defeat by winning the women's net with 96-26-70.

James Forrester and Peter Harrison won their Makarika Cup matches. Harrison also won the men's stableford with 36 points.

SUNDAY — Intermediate women's club championship: H McClutchie def I Ngarimu; P Summersby def R Ngatai. McClutchie v H Miratana, Summersby v G Roberts in round 2.

Women's net: I Ngarimu 96-26-70, H McClutchie 97-24-73, H Miratana 94-21-73.

Makarika Cup men's matchplay, third round: P Harrison def G Summersby, J Forrester def I Logan.

Men's stableford: P Harrison 36, J Forrester 34, I Logan 32.

Twos: I Logan, N Dewes.

Brave, keen or crazy.

Take your pick in describing the hardy souls who ventured out in the rain, wind and cold for the Johnston Cup Canadian foursomes net on Sunday.

Viv Kyle and Graham Shapland would probably prefer “brave” and their net 80 was rewarded with victory on the day.

Tegal Smith would probably go for “crazy” as he and Renee Hiko were second on 82, followed by Lee and Anthony Steel on 83 and Paipan Denigan and Rusty Smith on 84.

Two players fresh from success in the King of the Coast at Tolaga Bay have shifted their sights to club championship glory.

But both Jason Devery and Danny Boyle have hard rows to hoe to repeat their Sunday successes — Devery winning the second 16 and Boyle the third 16 of the KotC.

Boyle did not post a qualifying round for the intermediate men's championship so goes in as the 16th and bottom qualifier, and faces top seed Anthony Pahina in the first round.

Devery recently joined Park and qualified 10th in the 11-man senior men's field. Ahead of him waits a tough first-up prospect in Sel Peneha.

Defending champion Tony Akroyd qualified third while the man he beat in last year's final, Anaru Reedy, topped qualifying with a 1-under 71.

Akroyd, Reedy, Rod Moore, Pete Stewart and Daniel Collier all earned byes into round 2.

The intermediate men's division features a full 16 missing 2021 champion Tom Reynolds but featuring last year's junior champion Matt Henwood, who qualified fifth.

Pahina is at top seed, followed by Craig Christophers and Sefo Fonoti.

Ian Loffler top qualified in the junior division and faces life member Ray Grace in round 1.

The endeavour field features eight players — Carl Carmody junior the No.1 seed.

First-round matches must be played by August 14.