Electrinet Park
Foursomes success is no rocket science formula.
It won’t work without both players firing — a basic equation proved by Jo Kerr and Lynne Holmberg at the Gisborne Park Ladies 18-hole Open Foursomes tournament yesterday.
The Park-Poverty Bay duo shot an excellent 5-over 77 for the Canadian foursomes format to run away with the gross honours.
“We worked well together,” said Kerr, who clearly enjoys the pairs format. Only the week before she finished second overall partnered with Dirk Bullivant in the Tom Shaw Memorial pairs at Poverty Bay Golf Club.
The Kerr-Holmberg combo finished seven shots clear of Park stalwarts Karen Hay and Jean Foot.
Mahia club members took home the net honours. Paipan Denigan and Lee Steel carded an impressive 66, with home-course pair Tracey Ford and Di Webb second on 67.5 and Janet Muir and Jaye McCafferty third on 70.
The 9-holers’ gross was won by Christine McDonald and Sue McLaughlin (54) while Liz Plowman and Jenny Loffler won the net (36.5).
Nearly 50 players competed and there was high praise from the visitors for the course.
WEDNESDAY — Gisborne Park Ladies 18-hole Open Foursomes, 18-hole gross: J Kerr/L Holmberg 77 from K Hay/J Foot 84.
18-hole net: P Denigan/L Steel 66 from T Ford/D Webb 67.5, J McCafferty/J Muir 70, D Goldsmith/A Gemmell 72, K White/C Carpendale 72.5, T Lewis/G Young 74.5, H McClutchie/R Ngatai 75, P Wanklyn/O Thompson 75.
9-holers’ gross: C McDonald/S McLaughlin 54.
Net: L Plowman/J Loffler 36.5.
Approaches: K Hay/J Foot, N Johnson/J Alderson.
Best third shot on 18: J Utting/J Foot.
Twos: K Hay/J Foot 2, J Kerr/L Holmberg, A Gemmell/D Goldsmith.
TUESDAY — Veterans’ stableford: K White 38, W Brown 38, H Schreiber 37, P Nepia 37, E Parkin 35, E Morley 35.
Twos: E Morley.
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: L Hayes 41, J Witika 39.
Women’s Sunday Trophy stableford: T Ford 35.
Twos: K White.
SATURDAY — LGU, silver division: K Hay 72.
Bronze I: T Ford 71.
Bronze II: K Papuni.
Twos: K Hay.
WEDNESDAY (April 19) — Mid-wekk women’s net: T Ford 72.
Twos: T Ford, K Hay, C Pipi.
Waikohu
Auckland-based Waikohu members David and son Glenn Solomann introduced themselves on Sunday to the club they have been flying the flag for over the past two weekends.
The Solomanns, members of Whitford Park in the Big A, are competing for Waikohu in the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants series.
The pair racked up three wins from their four pennants matches at Tolaga Bay on Saturday.
Solomann junior took home bragging rights from Sunday’s round — shooting 76, including two twos, to his father’s 77.
Solomann senior, who originates from Gisborne, said it was probably the first time he had played at Waikohu since 1993-94.
He rated it “a tough little track” and said they had “a great day”.
Ethine Reeves won the men’s stableford with 33 points while Andrea Reeves won the women’s competition with 34.
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: E Reeves 33, R Reeves 31, G Solomann 30, L Green 29, P Milner 28.
Women’s stableford: A Reeves 34, C Te Rito 33, J Broughton 28.
Twos: G Solomann 2, E Reeves, R Reeves.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, club competition.
Mahia
The “Maher Machine” extended his victory streak to three consecutive weekends on Sunday.
Bruce Maher won the men’s stableford with 81-13-68, his round featuring only pars and bogeys.
Rusty Smith, the last man other than Maher to have won the Sunday competition, was second with 91-23-68, also for 40.
SUNDAY — Men’s stablefeord: B Maher 40, R Smith 40, K Solomon 38, G Hornblow 38, D Bremner 36.
THURSDAY (April 20) — Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Homelinks women’s net, gross: L Steel 105.
Net: L Steel 79.
LGU: L Steel 105-26-79, V Kyle 122-38-84.
COMING UP: SATURDAY, Mahia women’s open, 10am tee-off, 9-holers welcome, entries to Maraea Wesche 027-229-2342 or Renee Hiko 027-371-8682.
Poverty Bay
Entries for the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are to be called for from Monday.
“Club members and local district golfers will be given a two-week priority period to enter up to Sunday, May 14,” a Poverty Bay Golf Club statement says.
“From Monday, May 15 (from 8am), entries will be accepted from golfers from all other districts.
“We will be sending out a bulk email to all the previous entrants we have on our database with the appropriate entry form attached.”
Entry forms will also be posted on the Poverty Bay website and Awapuni Links: Home of the Poverty Bay Golf Club Facebook page.
Don Wright has had more than his share of injury issues in recent times, so he was no doubt delighted to post his best score in many months on Saturday.
Wright won the division 2 men’s stableford with 83- 16-67, for 41 points.
Other stableford winners over the week were Mark Thomas (40 points), John Williams (39), Richard Foon (39), Allan White (39) and Ross Morley (39), who played down others’ 19th-hole claims he could be the best 16-handicapper in the country.
Sunday — Men’s stableford, division 1: A White 39, C Taewa 37, C Simpson 36, B Brown 36, B Morgan 36.
Division 2: R Morley 39, A Putnam 37, N Jones 37, P Rickard 36.
Twos: B Brown, C Taewa, P Anderson, A White, D Baty.
Approach: A White.
Saturday — Men’s stableford, division 1: R Foon 39, A Abrahams 37, G Brown 36.
Division 2: D Wright 41, B Simpson 39, N West 38.
Twos: D Jenkins.
Approach: P Goodwin.
Thursday — Men’s stableford, division 1: M Thomas 40, A Hayward 37, J Pittar 36, A Abrahams 35.
Division 2: J Williams 39, G Clapham 39, R Young 38, M Reynolds 36, S Willock 36.
Twos: J Bryden, G Brown, G Clapham, A Hayward, M Stewart.
Approach: N Mackie.
Te Puia Springs
Breaking his age has probably lost its novelty by now for the evergreen Nehe Dewes.
Hovering around the mid-80s mark in years, kaumatua Dewes shot in the low 80s to once again achieve the feat.
With his 82-18-64 — including a two — for 42 points went victory in the men’s stableford . . . six points clear of the chasers.
Robyn Ngatai topped round 2 of the President’s cup women’s net with 93-25-6.,
SUNDAY — President’s cup women’s net, round 2: R Ngatai 93-25-68, H McClutchie 94-25-69, I Ngarimu 98-27-71.
LGU putting: I Ngarimu 30, R Ngatai 32, A Cook 34.
Men’s stableford: N Dewes 42, I Logan 36, W Ngata 36.
Patutahi
First-season member Abbie Davis had one of those days as she broke 100 for the first time at Patutahi on Sunday.
And she did it with ease — shooting 94-35-59, for 47 points, to not surprisingly win the women’s stableford.
The round, highlighted by a birdie-3 on the fifth hole, somewhat overshadowed John Neilson’s senior men’s stableford-winning 77-11-66, for 41 points.
Dave Quinn racked up a lucrative 24 points to win the junior section of the Friday meat pack 9-hole stableford.
TUESDAY — Women’s net: K McLatchie 102-28-74, M Philip 107-31-76.
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, senior division: J Neilson 41, H Harris 38, R Moleta 36.
Junior division: C Parker 37, C Brown 36, R Pardoe 35.
Women’s stableford: A Davis 47, J Winiata-Beattie 38.
FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: L Kerr 22, J Neilson 21, C Vaughan 20, W Carpendale 20, J Blair 20.
Junior division: D Quinn 24, L Jamieson 22, H Humble 21, D Dodgshun 20, D Humphrey 19.
Electrinet Park (1) reeled in a good chunk of Tolaga Bay’s lead in Round 2 of the Endeavour men’s interclub pennants on Saturday.
Tolaga Bay went into the Waikohu-hosted round on the back of a perfect start to the series — six wins from six matches.
But they managed only three at Waikohu while Park (1) picked up five victories, worth four points apiece.
Mike Christophers, Wayne Carpendale, Shannon Toa, Ian Loffler and Heath Tupara had wins as Park added 20 points to their first-round haul of 14.
Their total of 34 put them just two behind leaders Tolaga Bay for whom brothers Will and Murray Yates, and Mark Watts had wins for 12 points.
Patutahi (2) were the second-best team of Round 2. Pat Molloy, Hamish Harris and Charlie Taylor had wins and George Brown a half as ’Tahi (2) added 14 points to their first-round eight.
Poverty Bay are sitting in third place on 28 points after wins to Colin Simpson, Kit Goldsmith and Peter Hakiwai.
Mahia had three wins, courtesy of the in-form Bruce Maher, David Waihaki and Rusty Smith.
Waikohu collected 12 points through wins to Karauria Ruru and Tama Brown and halves from Larry Green and Dudley Reeves.
Park (2) added 10 points to their total from wins to Danny Boyle and Mason Emery, and a half by Mike Bond.
Bottom-of-the-table Patutahi (1)’s struggles continued. After losing all six matches in Round 1, they could muster only one win in Round 2. Club president Tony Green’s victory saved them from a double bagel.
Overall standings: Tolaga Bay 36 (24pts from Round 1/12 from Round 2); Park (1) 34 (14/20); Poverty Bay 28 (16/12); Park (2) 26 (16/10); Patutahi (2) 22 (8/14); Mahia 22 (10/12); Waikohu 20 (8/12); Patutahi (1) 4 (0/4).
Max Hammond's try was a highlight but the honours went to the hosts.