Golf roundup

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One giant down. One to go.

Thomas Donovan is sharpening his giant-killing axe in anticipation of a titanic battle to decide the senior men’s club championship this weekend.

TD defeated good mate, boss and newly-crowned King of the Country Andrew Higham 1-up in the semifinals on last week — his first-ever win over the prolific Springs senior title winner.

It earned 2013 Gisborne Park senior champion Donovan a date with William Brown, who is eyeing a club championship double, having recently won the senior men’s crown at the Poverty Bay course.

Brown took a contrasting semifinal path. His opponent Wade Wesche defaulted.

Te Puia’s other men’s champions have been decided. Bill Clark beat James Forrester 2 and 1 in the intermediate final while Daryl Goldsmith defeated Peter Ngarimu in the junior final.

SUNDAY — Stableford: D Goldsmith 37, M Higham 36, I Logan 32.

Greg Hawea was out on his own in the men’s stableford on Saturday after a career-best round on his home Poverty Bay course.

The international shearer shot 81-15-66, for 42 points, and comfortably won division 2.

A near-ace on the second hole was a 19th-hole talking point of Brad Morgan’s stableford-winning and shootout qualifying performance on Sunday.

Morgan subsequently made two on the second and went on to shoot 76-9-67, for 41 points, to win division 1.

More importantly, after being in danger of slipping off the Andy Abrahams Shootout leaderboard, he leapt up to eighth place and is a certain qualifier for the 19-man final on Sunday, November 14.

Qualifying for the shootout final ends this Sunday. At the moment the bottom qualifying score is 208, with six players sitting on this, including the event sponsor.

A string of eight consecutive pars anchored George Brown’s division 1 stableford-winning 76-7-69, dor 39 points on Saturday.

Other winners over the week were Bill Simpson (37pts), Glenn Morley (37) and Pete Humphreys (37).

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: B Morgan 41, N Richardson 37, D Twigley 36, R Gibson 36, M Callaghan 36.

Division 2: B Simpson 37, P Goodwin 36, S Willock 36, M Mulrooney 35, L Gunther 35.

Twos: W Mortleman, B Morgan, J Blair, M Mulrooney, M. Dodgshun.

Saturday — Men’s stableford, division 1: G Brown 39, D Jenkins 38, T Goldsmith 37, V Richardson 37.

Division 2: G Hawea 42, R Morgan 39, D McFadyen 36, A Baldwin 36.

Twos: T Goldsmith, C Jeffrey.

THURSDAY (Oct 21) —Men’s stableford, division 1: G Morley 37, B Colbert 37, W Brown 37, W Mortleman 36.

Division 2: P Humphreys 37, D Bush 37, P Graham 37, S Willock 36.

Twos: W Mortleman, T Sherratt, G Morley.

Pat Hokianga followed up an impressive round with a brilliant one over the holiday weekend.

Hokianga, hot off a second-round 76 at the King and Queen of the Coast Open the previous weekend, fired 2-over 72 on Sunday, including four birdies and a back nine holes of 1-under 34.

His net 64 fittingly won the senior men’s competition.

Joe Blair had a double helping of weekend success — winning the junior men’s net on Sunday with 82-17-65 and the net on Monday with 84-17-67.

Denise Johnston mixed eight pars with 10 bogeys in her Sunday round of 81-12-69 and it won her the women’s net.

MONDAY — Men’s net: J Blair 67, P Johnston 68, C Brown 69, A Hindmarsh 69, T Green 70.

SUNDAY — Men’s net, senior division: P Hokianga 64, P Molloy 66, J Brown 68, A Hindmarsh 69, D Russell 71.

Junior division: J Blair 65, M Smith 66, D Skudder 70, M Pohatu 70, P Johnston 70.

Women’s net: D Johnston 69.

FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: M de Luze 21, T Adamson 20, R Hindmarsh 19, B Wallace 19, S Pohatu 18.

Junior division: D Skudder 21, T Coutts 20, M Owen 20, C Brown 19, H Humble 18.

Twos: C Parker, L Anania, J Brown, P Molloy, T Green.

Jackpot: C Parker.

An eagle-3 on the ninth highlighted GlenMcKinnon’s stableford-winning efforts on Sunday.

The Mac Attack reaped 41 points, heading off an in-form Phil Nepia, who was a point back after winning the Tuesday vets’ stableford last week with 39 points.

Their places are safe but there is extra incentive for those at the top of The Power Connections 18 Hole Shootout ladder.

The final of the shootout is on November 6 and the last day to submit a qualifying score is November 3.

Craig Christophers remained in the top qualifying spot as of October 26, with a total of 554 for his four best net scores off the blue tees and four best off the whites.

He is five strokes clear of Matt Henwood (559), with Tom Reynolds third on 567.

Biting at his heels, however, are Steve Phillips (569), Darrel Gregory (570), Anthony Pahina (570), Zane Boyle (571) and Glen McKinnon (571).

The winner of the final will pocket am estimated $500 but if that winner also qualified in the top three, he will collect a bonus $250, so those behind Reynolds have a dangling carrot to get their teeth into.

Sunday — Men’s stableford: G McKinnon 41, P Nepia 40, A Pahina 38.

Twos: A Pahina.

SATURDAY — Stableford: E Parkin 38, R Walford 38.

THURSDAY (Oct 21) — Digg It Gizzy twilight stableford: L Vette 23, D Gregory 22.

Non-golfers: J Collier.

Approaches: J Kerr, D Harrison.

Long drives: S Cranswick, S Toa.

Monkey on the back: Tere Lincoln.

TUESDAY (Oct 19) — Men’s stableford: P Nepia 39, B Lumsden-Nicholls 38, B Cameron 38, A Nairne 37, C Brown 36, A Lewington 36, G Williams 35, A Reedy 34, C Aramakutu 34.

It rained points and money at the Na Puteputi stud fundraising tournament on Saturday.

Renee Hiko provided a deluge of points in the women’s section with a sensational round of 88-27-61, for 49 points.

Lee Steel (46) and Maraea Wesche (44) were also in fine form.

The appropriately-named men’s winner continued the stableford downpour — Rain Te Kanawa victorious with 45 points.

Players also reached deep into their pockets in support of the Ozanam House cancer patient accommodation facility at Palmerston North Hospital.

Around $14,000 was raised from tournament entry, raffles and a dinner.

SATURDAY — Na Puteputi 18-hole stableford, men’s division: R Te Kanawa 45, S Hartley 40, Wayne Wesche 40, I Parker 38, J Ash 38, R Smith 38, B Leais 37, T Ngamotu 37, P Bremner 37.

Non-golfers’ division: B Livingstone from S Tana.

Women’s division: R Hiko 49, L Steel 46, M Wesche 44, L Humphreys 40, M Pickles 38.

Unqualified women: S Westwood.

The annual Coates and McLean trophies went down to the wire over the weekend.

Aaron Coker defeated Kahu Tamanui 1-up in the 12-hole matchplay final to win the Coates Trophy.

The McLean Trophy also went all the way with 2020 Coates Trophy winner Ella Wynyard beating 2020 McLean Trophy winner Larry Green also on the 12th hole.

SUNDAY — Coates and McLean trophies 12-hole matchplay tournament, top qualifier: M Tuapawa.

Coates Trophy final: A Coker def K Tamanui.

Third: M Tuapawa.

McLean Trophy final: E Wynyard def L Green.

flight: P Milner def S Te Rito.

Stableford: I Ruru 23.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, all-in shootout.

SUNDAY — Mangatuna Masters, women’s overall net: G Watts 69.

Stableford: H McClutchie 36, I Ngarimu 35, H Miratana 35, A Hale 35.

Men’s overall net: T Adamson 64.

Stableford: M Watts 40, J Sheridan 39, Z Horomia 37, T Reedy 36, N Hansen 35, T Higgs 35, B Sidney 35, D Milner 34.

Twos: N Hansen.

Men’s long drives: T Sweeney, J Sheridan.

Women’s long drive: H Miritana.

Men’s approaches: N Hansen, J Sheridan.

Women’s approach: H McClutchie.

Twilight golf starts at 5pm tomorrow. Golf clubs are available for use. Three or four holes for novices, nine holes for golfers of experience.