A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
ONE thing is certain in this year's final of the senior men's club championship . . . Pete will win it.
Which one is the question.
Pete Anderson faces Pete Kerekere — or as it is being billed, PA v PK — in the 36-hole final next month.
Anderson booked his place in the title decider with a 2 and 1 victory over six-time senior champion Andrew Higham on Saturday.
Kerekere was already waiting for who he would meet, having disposed of George Brown 5 and 4.
The junior finalists have also been sorted. Lee Hewson needed 20 holes to get past John Holmes while Larry Foster advanced with a 2 and 1 win over Bill Simpson.
The intermediate division is still at the semifinals stage.
Club captain John van Helden is up against teenager Zach Rolls, who chipped and putted Andy Hayward off the course in their quarterfinal.
Recently-crowned Barns-Graham men's pairs champion Mike Dodgshun faces 78-year-old Cliff Poole, a two-time intermediate runner-up who eliminated Tuki Sweeney in a titanic 22-hole quarterfinal.
William Brown followed up his King of the Coast men's open triumph with a pace-setting opening round in the Dodgshun Cup strokeplay series on Saturday.
Brown, who won the Dodgshun Cup in 2014 and 2018, shot even-par 72 to be four shots clear of Anderson (76) in division 1, with two-time winner Tene Goldsmith a stroke back.
Clive Dean (84) leads division 2 and Alan Baldwin (93) division 3.
The Dodgshun Cup is a strokeplay series, with players counting their best three of four gross scores.
It rained twos over the three club competitions for men last week.
There were a total of 19 twos — 11 of those on Sunday, including two twos each to James Situ and Don Wright.
The best of the twos came from Thomas Donovan, who blasted his drive on to the green on the 280-metre par-4 10th on Sunday, then sank the 60-foot putt for eagle.
Situ produced the men's round of the week —75-9-66, for 42 points, which won the division 1 stableford on Sunday.
Jan Steele enjoyed success on both women's competition days this week. She won the net eclectic with her Monday score of 65 and the bronze 1 LGU on Wednesday with 98-24-74.
Wednesday — Women's net eclectic (also held Monday): J Steele 65, T Lewis 68.
LGU 7, silver division: G Young 93-15-78.
Bronze 1: J Steele 98-24-74.
Bronze 2: P Wanklyn 106-32-74.
9-holers: J Ngarimu 54-18-36.
Two: M Allan.
Sunday — Men's stableford, division 1: J Situ 42, M Norman 37, P Anderson 36, P Clayton 35, J Van Helden 35.
Division 2: D Wright 38, D Meadows 37, P Grogan 36, A Baldwin 35.
Twos: J Situ 2, D Wright 2, P Anderson, J Kerekere, P Grogan, T Donovan, B Talbot.
Approach: R Morley.
Jackpot: J Situ.
SATURDAY — Dodgshun Cup men's strokeplay, division 1: W Brown 72, P Anderson 76, T Goldsmith 77.
Division 2: C Dean 84, J Situ 85, G Clapham 86.
Division 3: A Baldwin 93, B Allen 96, B Simpson 97.
Twos: J Situ, P Hakiwai, P Clayton, A Higham, T Donovan.
Approach: A Higham.
THURSDAY (July 30) — Men's stableford, division 1: C Poole 39, G Morley 37, S Andreassen 36, I Murphy 36, G Clapham 36.
Division 2: R Owen 38, H Johanson 37, D Bush 37, P Graham 35, S Willock 35.
Twos: D Griffin, T Donovan, B Talbot, C Dean, G Morley.
Approach: B Talbot.
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THE division 1 top seed advanced but numbers 2 and 3 departed in men's Handicap Cup matches on Sunday.
No.1 qualifier Rod Moore cruised to a 5 and 4 victory over Glen McKinnon in their division 1 match to set up a semifinal against teenager Zach Rolls, who brushed aside Steve Phillips 4 and 3.
The much-anticipated battle between Anaru Reedy and No.3 seed Pete Stewart turned into a Reedy procession — 6 and 5.
He next faces Sel Peneha, who knocked out second seed Anthony Pahina on the 17th.
The top three seeds in division 2 were bundled out.
No.1 qualifier Paul Wellard was beaten on the 18th by Glynn Williams, No.2 Ray Grace lost 2 and 1 to Steve Rolls and No.3 Cliff Nepe fell 2 and 1 to Shaun Pahina.
Harrison beat Rameka on the 17th in the battle of the Daves. He meets Williams in the semis while Rolls takes on Pahina.
Division 1 matches are at 9.30am and division 2 at 9.40 on Sunday.
Tracey Ford enjoyed a successful week, winning the women's net last Wednesday and Saturday, then combining with Blanche Walker to win the Foster Cup women's pairs from Roseanne Taiapa and Janet Muir on Sunday.
SUNDAY — Men's stableford: A Reedy.
Women's stableford: B Walker on c/b from J Morley.
Twos: B Reynolds, A Reedy, J Foot.
Foster Cup women's pairs: B Walker/T Ford from R Taiapa/J Muir.
SATURDAY — Men's net: P Wellard 68.
Women's net: T Ford 96-21-75.
Two: W Morrissey.
WEDNESDAY (July 29) — Women's net: T Ford 94-21-73.
TUESDAY (July 28) — Veteran men's and women's stableford: P Koorey 38, A Reedy 34, E Parkin 34, C Brown 33, B Cameron 32, R Taiapa 32.
JEREMY Murphy's win in the men's net on Sunday secured him the Reeves Cup title for 2020.
Murphy shot 83-15-68 and his total score of 134 for his combined best two nets of the three-round series earned him the trophy.
The Bartram Cup men's matchplay semifinals are on Sunday. Dion Milner faces Rongo Pomana while Bruce Yates plays Trent Higgs.
SUNDAY — Men's net: J Murphy 68, M Grant 69, T Higgs 71.
Putting: M Grant 27, B Yates 28, R Pomana 28.
Reeves cup (best two nets of three rounds): J Murphy 134, M Grant 139.
Coming up: SUNDAY, stableford and Bartram Cup men's matchplay semifinals.
SHAYDE Skudder and Jace Brown led the scoring in the senior men's division of club championship qualifying on Sunday.
Skudder and Brown both carded 1-over 71, one stroke ahead of Tony Akroyd, with Dwayne Russell and Chris Beattie another shot back.
Beattie's 73-4-69 won him the senior men's net.
Defending senior champion Hukanui Brown could manage only 78 while older brother Eddie junior's first 18 holes since mid-June will be remembered for an 11 on the par-4 seventh although he still had three birdies in his 84.
That disaster can easily be extinguished, however, as qualifying is the best 18-hole score of two qualifying rounds. The second round is this Sunday.
Michael Broad (68) won the junior division net on Sunday while Denise Johnston (73) topped the women.
TUESDAY — Women's net: J Ewart 107-24-83, A Haisman 101-19-82, S Robertson 96-14-82.
SUNDAY — Club championships, first qualifying round, men's net, senior division: C Beattie 69, J Brown 71, Shayde Skudder 71, P Molloy 73, T Akroyd 73.
Junior division: M Broad 68, M Weaver 69, M Owen 69, G Maude 71, C Brown 72.
Women's net: D Johnston 73, H Pomana 75.
Twos: G Tattersfield, H Pomana, H Harris.
Jackpot: H Harris.
FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: T Reeves 19, A Blakeman 18, H Harris 17, A Hindmarsh 17, P Johnston 16.
Junior division: D Bentley 20, D Somerton 18, I Tietjen 18, S Fookes 18, M Owen 18.
TAMA Brown comfortably won the all-in stableford with 35 points, three ahead of Kahu Tamanui.
Opotiki is hosting Waikohu in their interclub competition on Saturday. Waikohu members will depart from the clubhouse at 9am.
SUNDAY — All-in stableford: T Brown 35, K Tamanui 32, I Ruru 31, T Smith 31, E Wynyard 29, U Chambers 28.
Twos: Ike Ruru.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, mystery competition.
MARK Higham brought James Forrester's winning streak to an end on Sunday.
Higham defeated Forrester in the Makarika Cup men's matchplay while Kahu Waitoa eliminated Nehe Dewes.
Waitoa also won the men's stableford with 39 points on countback from Dewes.
SUNDAY — Captain's competition round 3/LGU/women's net: I Ngarimu 70, H McClutchie 71, H Miratana 73.
Putting: I Ngarimu 28, G Roberts 29, H Miratana 31.
Men's stableford: K Waitoa 39, N Dewes 39, P Harrison 34, J Forrester 33, M Higham 33.
Two: K Waitoa.
Makarika Cup men's matchplay: M Higham def J Forrester, K Waitoa def N Dewes.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, LGU/putting/women's net, Makarika Cup men's matchplay (M Higham def R Smith), stableford for others.