GOLF ROUNDUP

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

DAVE Hall has directed a few local productions in his time but he couldn't have scripted his first hole-in-one much better.

Hall aced the par-3 112-metre sixth hole at Poverty Bay on Sunday.

He and his playing group watched as his ball soared towards the green, landed about eight-to-10-foot short of the hole, rolled up and dropped in the cup.

Golf Roundup was unable to contact Hall — apparently he is camping at Waikaremoana this week — but playing partner Pete Anderson watched the drama unfold.

Having just hit his tee shot to about 4-foot of the hole, Anderson risked jinxing Hall's brilliant effort 2-foot out.

“I said it's going in”.

The new flagsticks — installed in time for the Poverty Bay Open two weeks ago and sitting much straighter and sturdier in the hole — may well have played a part.

Hall won't care to remember most of the other 17 holes in a round of 97, but he won't forget the one shot that every golfer craves.

Brad Morgan racked up a second consecutive Sunday stableford division 1 win — continuing his strong recent form with 77-9-69, for 39 points.

Scott Muncaster has converted his skills on the basketball court to the fairways, winning the division 2 stableford on Sunday with 88-23-65, for 43 points.

Bill Simpson has endured some tough golfing times of late, not helped by his finger getting squashed when a mate inadvertently pushed the up button to wind up a car window.

The pain eased on Saturday with his round of 90-23-67, for 41 points, which won him the division 2 stableford.

Joe Bryden (41pts) and Colin Christie (41) were also in the 40s in topping their divisions of last Thursday's stableford.

Wednesday — Women's stableford: O Thompson 38, M Allan 38, F Pell 34.

9-holers' stableford: C McDonald 19, R Pettigrew 19, R Dymock 19.

SUNDAY — Men's stableford, division 1: B Morgan 39, C Simpson 38, B Morrissey 36.

Division 2: S Muncaster 43, R Chalmers 35, M Karalus 33.

Twos: A Hayward, C Simpson, A Putnam, R Chalmers, P Anderson, M Norman.

Hole-in-one: D Hall.

Approach: D Hall.

SATURDAY— Men's stableford, division 1: A Kirkpatrick 37, A Hayward 37.

Division 2: B Simpson 41, C Christie 36.

Approach: C Poole.

Thursday (Sept 29) — Men's stableford, division 1: J Bryden 41, T Goldsmith 39, A White 36, B Colbert 35.

Division 2: C Christie 41, J Aitchison 37, P Graham 37, R Veall 37.

Twos: C Evans, J Aitchison, A White.

Approach: J Aitchison.

The Carters Building Supplies Thursday twilight weekly golf teed off last week with Lytton High teachers at both ends of the results.

Matt Henwood won the 9-hole stableford with 22 points while Craig Christophers was at the bottom of the 66-strong field with 10.

In Christophers' defence, he was wearing the “monkey on the back” — a cuddly toy monkey that wraps around the player and is worn each week by the player who finished last the previous Thursday.

Christophers will be required to wear it again today in what has been called the “back-to-back monkey”.

Henwood's win set the pace in qualifying for the top 10 shootout held at the end of the twilight season. The shootout winner will pocket $1000.

The course was closed on Saturday due to the weather and reopened yesterday.

THURSDAY (Sept 29) — Carters Building Supplies twilight golf, 9-hole stableford: M Henwood 22, P Nepia 21.

Non-golfers' section: D Bronland.

Approaches: D Russell, T Lardelli, K White.

Long drive: W Brown.

Monkey on back: C Christophers.

Putting competiton: D Price.

Birdie board: D Russell, S Brown, D Collier, M Henwood, T Donovan, T Pomana.

COMING UP: SATURDAY, Greentree Plaque drawn mixed teams competition, register at 9am for 9.30am tee-off, club prizegiving to follow; SATURDAY/SUNDAY, Oct 29-30, Summit Forests 36-hole Open Tournament, men's and women's sections, 36-hole gross, net and stableford, 18-hole stableford, long drive, approaches, putting competition, birdie board, “choose a horse”, entry fee includes lunch on Saturday and meal on Sunday, start sheet at office or contact office (06) 867-9849, Tom 021-251-6081 or Barb 021-438-275.

Aaron Coker made it two Sunday stableford wins on the trot last weekend.

He followed up a 38-point performance on September 25 with 39 on Sunday.

Cheryl Te Rito's 35 was the best of the women. She was also in winning form the previous weekend in the Baty Cup drawn mixed pairs alongside Kahu Tamanui.

Sunday — Men's stableford: A Coker 39, P Milner 39, T Ritchie 38, E Reeves 36, K Tamanui 36.

Women's stableford: C Te Rito 35, V Grace 35, P Rutene 34.

Twos: P Milner, E Reeves, U Chambers.

SUNDAY (Sept 25) — Baty Cup drawn mixed pairs stableford: C Te Rito/K Tamanui 72; A Tamanui-Nunn/P Milner 63; P Rutene/A Coker 60.

Men's stableford: A Coker 38, K Ruru 37, P Milner 36, S Ritchie 36.

Women's stableford: C Te Rito 37, A Tamanui-Nunn 27.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, club competition; SATURDAY, Oct 15, Opotiki interclub at Opotiki; SUNDAY, Oct 16, shootout.

Consistency won BJ Sidney the stableford on Sunday. His 93-25-68 featured nines of 46, 47 and he won with 36 points.

SUNDAY — Stableford: BJ Sidney 36, Tere Lincoln 35, T Higgs 35, B Yates 34.

Approach: M Watts.

“Fabulous” weather and an “amazing” Dannevirke course could not inspire Northern to victory in the recent Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay women's inte-rzone.

The Northern Zone team, covering an area from Te Puia Springs to Wairoa, relinquished the silverware after finishing third of the three zones.

Hiria McClutchie (Te Puia Springs) and Carolyn Carpendale (Electrinet Park) were the best of the Northern Zone crew. They posted 48 points each over the 27 holes.

Central won the title for the first time in 12 years. They ended with an aggregate total of 696 points, with Southern second on 684 and Northern on 633.

Peri Gayford — one of two Northern Zone reps, the other being Mary Allan — had high praise for the course and clubhouse.

“Dannevirke is amazing,” she said.

The weather forecast was “the pits” but it turned out “fabulous”, she said. And the clubhouse is “beautiful”.