There were a couple of hot rounds and an ace last week.
Just over a year after recording his career-first hole-in-one, Tony File doubled his ace tally on Friday. He added the perfect shot on Park’s 112-metre 14th hole to his hole-in-one on the seventh hole in September of 2018.
Horst Schreiber had his best round in over 2½ years on Saturday — 86-21-65, which won the men’s stableford with 43 points.
Mihi Marino ventured into rare sub-90 territory in winning the women’s stableford last Wednesday with 89-22-67, for 43 points.
Electrinet Park results, SUNDAY — Poverty Bay-East Coast Golf Association fundraiser, division 1 men, gross: W Brown 73, G Morley 75.
Stableford: T Reynolds 40, S Phillips 40, M Grant 39, J Brown 38, N Hansen 37.
Division 2 men, gross: B Talbot 83 on c/b from G McKinnon 83.
Stableford : Z Rolls 39, T Leggett 37, D Hall 36, J Hayes 36, T Brown 35.
Women’s division, gross: J Kerr 84, E Ball 88.
Stableford : P Johansen 38, E Wynyard 36.
Twos: R Gibson, K Tamanui.
SATURDAY — Men’s stableford: H Schreiber 43, P Wellard 41.
Twos: A Pahina, S Peneha.
WEDNESDAY (Oct 9) - Women’s stableford: M Marino 43.
Twos: S Paku.
Poverty Bay“GRAY-ZY” and “Lizards” are a couple of nicknames Gray Clapham is known as. On Saturday he earned another . . . Player.
Kind of fitting, he could point out, considering swapping a couple of letters in his Christian name would make it Gary.
Player, err Clapham, won the division 1 men’s stableford with 78-15-63, for 45 points. It was his best round since a 78 late December although he was on 11 back then and shot the score off the white tees. Saturday’s performance was from the championship blue tees.
Clapham’s round was easily the best of the day — six points ahead of division 1 runner-up Cliff Poole.
Four birdies in a front nine holes of 3-under 33 anchored Thomas Donovan’s division 1 men’s stableford victory last Thursday. TD carded 1-over 73-6-67, for 41 points.
SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: G Clapham 45, C Poole 39, V Richardson 37.
Division 2: D Bush 36, R Skuse 36, M Stewart 36, D Mettrick 33.
Approach: V Richardson.
THURSDAY (Oct 10) — Men’s stableford, division 1: T Donovan 41, I Murphy 40, M Dodgshun 37, P Graham 35.
Division 2: B Hall 39, N Absalom 39, D Mettrick 38, T Sherratt 37, M Stewart 37.
Approach: M Dodgshun.
Te Puia SpringsA 40-point haul earned Frances Walker stableford honours on Sunday.
Members are reminded there is a working bee this Saturday.
SUNDAY — Stableford: F Walker 40, P Ngarimu 38, N Dewes 37, H McClutchie 36, I Ngarimu 35, P Harrison 34
COMING UP: SATURDAY, working bee; SUNDAY, meeting (10.30am), Makarika Trophy men’s competition, round 1, haggle for others.
PatutahiMark Collinson converted his Friday nine-hole form to Sunday 18-hole success over the weekend.
Collinson won the junior division of the meat pack nine-hole stableford on Friday with 24 points, then followed it up with second in the junior men’s net on Sunday.
Sel Pohatu’s 75-11-64 denied Collinson a second win in three days.
SUNDAY — Men’s net: S Pohatu 75-11-64, M Collinson 94-28-66, J Neilson 92-15-67, A Brodie 83-16-67, T Green 78-10-68, D Russell 78-10-68 on c/b.
Women’s net: L Haisman 97-27-70.
Twos: D Skudder.
FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: J Brodie 21, H Harris 21, O Willimott 21, J Neilson 20 on c/b.
Junior division: M Collinson 24, N Bunting 23, D Dodgshun 23, D Skudder 20 on c/b.
Tolaga Bay
A FRONT-nine 45 off the stick powered Ginger Watts to Sunday stableford glory. Watts, off a 27-handicap, had 39 points, two ahead of Jerry Murphy and Joe Lincoln.
SUNDAY — Stableford: G Watts 39, J Murphy 37, J Lincoln 37, R Mackey 36, J Hale 36.
Twos: M Watts.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, committee meeting (10am).
WaikohuThe all-in shootout is on Sunday, teeing off at 11am. Entry fee is $10. Bring a $5 prize wrapped in newspaper.
