A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
MARG Tuapawa was the star of the show as Waikohu drew first blood in round 1 of the Poverty Bay women's pennants on Saturday.
The pennants were held as part of the Patutahi women's open tournament and Tuapawa had the round of the day.
Not only did she win the junior division net with her first sub-100 score in over four years —99-36-63 — Tuapawa also anchored Waikohu's comfortable pennants victory.
The format for the first round was net and Waikohu ended with a total of 287, 11 shots clear of defending champions Te Puia Springs (298), with Poverty Bay third on 301.
It gave Waikohu the maximum seven team points in what is a tight scoring system of seven down to one for the competing seven clubs.
Poverty Bay's Jan Utting won the senior gross with 84, Wairoa's Taina Paku the net and Waikohu's Ella Wynyard the stableford.
Patutahi's Jandy Winiata (92)won the junior women's gross by one shot from clubmate Lorraine Haisman, Tuapawa the net and Te Puia Springs' Hiria McClutchie the stableford.
TUESDAY — Peter Pan Cup, round 2, net: S Robertson 84-11-73.
Putts: M Philip 32.
Twos: S Robertson, J Ewart.
SUNDAY — Men's net, senior division: A Nimmo 67, J Blair 67, P Hokianga 68, H Harris 69, T Brodie 69.
Junior division: S Te Rito 66, P Summersby 69, W Brown 70, K Donovan 71, B Pohatu 72.
Women's net: S Robertson 72.
Twos: J Blair, B Tietjen.
SATURDAY — Patutahi women's open, senior division, gross: J Utting 84, F Wesche 87.
Net: T Paku 70, D Kirkpatrick 72.
Stableford: E Wynyard 33, S Robertson 31, A Maru 31.
Junior division, gross: J Winiata 92, L Haisman 93.
Net: M Tuapawa 63, H Miratana 70.
Stableford: H McClutchie 37, A Haisman 36, J Underhill 36.
Long drives: S McRoberts, J Winiata.
Best second shots: A Maru, J Winiata.
Approaches: E Ball, D Goldsmith.
Twos: S Robertson, T Lewis, D Goldsmith.
Poverty Bay women's pennants, round 1, net: Waikohu 287, 1; Te Puia Springs 298, 2; Poverty Bay 301, 3; Wairoa 303, 4; Patutahi 309, 5; Mahia 315, 6; Electrinet Park 317, 7.
Overall points: Waikohu 7, Te Puia Springs 6, Poverty Bay 5, Wairoa 4, Patutahi 3, Mahia 2, Park 1.
FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: M Stock 21, B Wallace 20, P Molloy 20, J Brodie 20, D Russell 20.
Junior division: R Shannon 23, S Fookes 21, S Maynard 21, P Summersby 19, C Brown 19.
AN eagle-3 on the par-5 13th proved the difference as Zane Boyle advanced to the semifinals of the Men's Handicap Cup at the weekend.
Boyle denied +5-handicapper and defending champion Anaru Reedy the chance to add to his silverware collection with a 1-up win in their senior men's matchplay clash.
Boyle's win put him into semifinal against Rod Taylor, who looks to be in solid form after winning the men's net.
The other senior semi pits Anthony Pahina against the winner of the match between Ray Walford and last year's runner-up Rod Moore.
It will be High School Old Boys premier rugby team coach versus High School Old Boys premier team rugby captain when Danny Boyle and Tamanui Hill meet in the intermediate semis.
Tom Reynolds and Glen McKinnon will decide the other finalist.
The junior semis features the battle of the Joshes – Taylor v Hayes — and Shaun Pahina taking on Darrel Gregory.
The Women's Handicap Cup features several interesting duels — Jean Foot v Di Webb, who will be hungry to go one better than her recent Agnes Attwood Cup final defeat; Agnes Attwood winner Kath Papuni v Carney Pipi; and Jacque Akuhata-Nickerson v Tai Aramakutu.
SUNDAY — Men's net: R Taylor 69, P Stewart 70, J Hayes 72.
Twos: W Whangapirita.
Women's stableford: K Papuni 106-32-74, 36.
SATURDAY — Men's stableford: S Peneha 40, D Harrison 38.
Twos: R Taylor.
The draw for the Women's Handicap Cup draw on SATURDAY is — 9am: J Foot v D Webb. 9.06: K Papuni v C Pipi, J Akuhata-Nickerson v T Aramakutu.
The draw for the third round of the Men's Handicap Cup on SUNDAY is — Junior division, 9am: S Pahina v D Gregory, J Hayes v J Taylor.
Intermediate, 9.10: T Reynolds v G McKinnon, D Boyle v T Hill.
Senior division, 9.20: Z Boyle v R Taylor, A Pahina v winner of R Moore v R Walford.
COMING UP: April 3-4, Electrinet Park Summit Forestry Ltd 2-Day Easter Tournament.
PETER Ngarimu produced his best round of 2021 to hold off a girlpower challenge in the bisque bogey competition on Sunday.
Ngarimu posted 81-18-63 and was 7-up on the card.
Hazel Miratana, Makita Puke and Robyn Ngatai also ended +7.
SUNDAY — Bisque bogey: P Ngarimu 81-18-63, +7; I Sykes 83-18-65, +7; H Miratana 88-23-65, +7; M Puke 108-27-81, +7; R Ngatai 88-20-68, +6; D Goldsmith 111-32-79, +6; J Forrester 82-16-66, +5; F Walker 106-35-71, +5; I Logan 93-24-69, +4.
Twos: M Higham.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, net round; SATURDAY/SUNDAY, April 17-18, East Coast Amateur Championship and Handicap Tournament, five divisions and 18-hole stableford each day, entry is available online (tepuiagolf.nz), inquiries to John Babbington-Welsh 027-8228-002 or jkbabbingtonwelsh@icloud.com or Dick Cook (06) 864-4711 or 021-371-364 ir acanddc@hotmail.co.nz
The postponed open opening day tournament will now be held on Sunday, March 21.
SUNDAY — Stableford: M Watts 32, R Pomana 31, A Hale 31.
Waikohu
THE Waikohu open opening day tournament is being held this Saturday.
Tee-off is at 11.30am and there are Canadian mixed pairs and men's sections.
SUNDAY — 9-hole net, Canadian mixed pairs: E Wynyard/T Smith 34, A Tamanui-Nunn/Kahu Tamanui 36, M Tuapawa/T Ruru 37.
Men's section: T Brown 29, P Milner 35.
HOT scoring was not needed to win the 2021 edition of the Bull Cup men's team aggregate stableford.
Nor was handicap golf.
A total of 136 off the championship tees was enough for the Thursday crew of Brent Colbert, Gray Clapham, Bill Allen and Glenn Morley to claim a trophy with plenty of history.
Colbert (38pts) was the only player to dip under his handicap, 2-handicapper Morley had 34, Clapham 33 and Allen 31.
They were just one point ahead of Saturday group Colin Christie (39), Duncan Bush (33), Vance Richardson (33) and Cliff Poole (30).
Teams had the option of playing either Thursday, Saturday or Sunday in the Bull Cup, which in recent years has been reduced from 36 to 18 holes.
Last year's winners totalled 163 points and the 2019 champions had 157.
WEDNESDAY —Women's stableford: O Thompson 39, J Tietjens 28.
Sue Bunt 9-hole net: C McDonald/L Daniels/J Alderson 36.
MONDAY — Women's stableford: V Fletcher 31.
SUNDAY — Men's stableford, division 1: B Morgan 39, A Kirkpatrick 36, R Gibson 34, J Situ 33, D Patumaka 33.
Division 2: A Putnam 37, E Nolloth 37, C Simpson 37, P Rickard 36.
Twos: D Patumaka, R Gibson, B Talbot, M Jefferson, A Putnam, B Colbert.
Approach: D Pirimona.
SATURDAY — Men's stableford, division 1: C Christie 39, J Situ 39, P Hakiwai 36.
Division 2: B Read 35, B Allen 34, D McFadyen 34, A Williams 33.
Twos: S Andreassen, D Bush, S Jeune.
Approach: D Bush.
THURSDAY (Feb 18) — Men's stableford, division 1: C Poole 40, C Christie 38, B Colbert 38, J Van Helden 38.
Division 2: P Mullooly 41, P Goodwin 37, B Read 36, P Humphreys 36.
Twos: P Humphreys, S Andreassen, P Mullooly.
Approach: I Murphy.
GISBORNE East Coast Veteran Golfers Society members are on the road over the next two weeks.
Members have a competition in Mahia on Tuesday, March 2. Those going are to meet at the Poverty Bay Golf Club carpark at 8.45am for a 9am departure.
The following week is the annual Shark Trophy clash between Gisborne East Coast and Bay of Plenty vets. It is being held on the Ohope and Opotiki courses.
Those interested in the Bay of Plenty trip — 33 are going as of yesterday — should contact GECVGS chairman Jon Jenner as cards are being pre-printed and a draw is to be done.