Golf Roundup

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He's got a common name but there was nothing ordinary about Tom Smith's scoring at the Halberg Foundation Eagles Golfing Society fundraising tournament on Sunday.

Waikohu member Smith ran away with the men's net, thanks to a round of 103-41-62.

Gisborne Park's Shannon Toa can put his men's stableford-winning performance down to weekly appearances in the Wednesday twilight competition at the Awapuni Links.

Toa shot an outstanding 79-14-65, for 43 points.

Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay representative Tessa McDonald won the women's gross with 3-over 77.

Te Puia Springs' Aomihi Cook continued her prize-winning form in topping the net with 112-40-72 while teenager Jessica Hayward ovecame a couple of high-scoring holes to win the stableford with 36 points.

The Bob Grierson Memorial teams' stableford title went to Ian Kirkpatrick, John Williams, Tim Sherratt and Graeme Eriksen.

Around $2500 was raised for the Halberg Foundation.

■ Gay Young reckons the Oman Cup has been the Omen Cup for her over the years. Not any more.

Young, runner-up back in 2000 and 2013, won the women's matchplay title in an 18-hole battle with Viv Bell yesterday.

Giving Bell two shots, Young trailed 3-down after four holes but surged back to be all-square at the turn.

A birdie on 17, which put Young 1-up, proved the difference.

WEDNESDAY — Trial for national teams' district final in Hawke's Bay (net) V Bell 70, S Spence 70, P Gayford 74, A Witters 76.

LGU (2), silver division: S Spence 89-19-70.

Bronze 1: P Gayford 99-25-74.

Bronze 2: M Lane 113-30-83.

Sue Bunt 9-holers' net, round 2: C McDonald 33, J Hall 37.

WEDNESDAY (March 4) — Sue Bunt 9-holers' net, round 2: L Plowman 31.

SUNDAY — Halberg Foundation Eagles Golfing Society fundraiser, men's gross: P Anderson 73.

Men's net: T Smith 62.

Men's Stableford: S Toa 43, B Morgan 41, B Talbot 40, I Kirkpatrick 40, G Eriksen 40, M Norman 39, D Pirimona 39, A Haughey 39, P Hakiwai 39, T Goldsmith 39.

Women's gross: T McDonald 77.

Women's net: A Cook 72.

Women's stableford: J Hayward 36, . Tamanui-Nunn 35, H McClutchie 35, V Grace 35, E Wynyard 32.

Twos: M Jefferson, Taine Lincoln, T Goldsmith, B Morgan, C Jeffrey, N Hansen.

Approach: T Goldsmith.

SATURDAY — Men's stableford, division 1: D Jenkins 40, C Jeffrey 39, V Richardson 39, P Clayton 39.

Division 2: W Thompson 39, J Kerekere 39, D Bush 38.

Twos: D Jenkins, C Jeffrey.

Approach: D Jenkins.

THURSDAY (March 5) — Men's stableford, division 1: A Kirkpatrick 39, P Kerekere 38, J Bryden 37, F Ball 36, V Richardson 36.

Division 2: M Mulrooney 37, W Thompson 35, J Pittar 35, B Allen 34.

Twos: G Morley, M Dodgshun.

Approach: G Kemp.

Handicap golf was good enough to get among the top prizes at the Fletcher's Meat Treat women's open tournament last Thursday.

Patutahi's Andrea Haisman collected the big one — the overall net — with a consistent round of 93-21-72.

Other section winners were Jan Utting, Sally Spence, Jacque Akuhata-Nickerson, Shirley Paku, Vicki Fraser, and Alayna Watene.

Steve Phillips equalled his best round of 2020 to win the men's stableford on Sunday. Phillips carded 77-11-66, for 42 points.

Jean Foot's solid showing over summer earned her the EJ Meade Summer Cup for women.

Jean Morley won the 18-hole aggregate and Akuhata-Nickerson the 18-hole eclectic.

SUNDAY — Men's stableford: S Phillips 42, T Leggett 41, P Stewart 39.

Twos: P Stewart, A Reedy, T Pointon, R Moore.

Approach: R Moore

Men's best second shot: P Stewart.

Women's best third shot: T Ford.

Women's team for national teams' district final: W Morrissey, J Muir, T Ford, B Walker.

Women's summer golf results, EJ Meade Summer Cup: J Foot from J Akuhata-Nickerson.

18-hole aggregate net: J Morley from M Alley.

18-hole eclectic: J Akuhata-Nickerson from T Ford.

SATURDAY — Men's stableford: S Peneha 35.

Twos: P Wellard.

Nancy McCormick women's foursomes winners: B Walker/ W Morrissey.

Women's stableford: D Webb 32.

THURSDAY (March 5) — Fletcher's Meat Treat women's open tournament, overall net: A Haisman 72.

Division 1, gross: J Utting 91 on c/b from M Wesche.

Net: S Spence 74, E Westwood 77 on c/b.

Stableford: J Akuhata-Nickerson 36 from J MacKinnon on c/b.

Division 2, gross: S Paku 97, B Woods 99.

Net: V Fraser 74, K Papuni 75.

Stableford: A Watene 36 from M Alley.

Approach: B Woods.

Closest to line on 18: W Morrissey.

Wednesday (March 4) — Nancy McCormick women's foursomes (net), round 1: S Paku/M Alley 68.5.

Twos: S Paku/M Alley, J Foot/J Muir.

Saturday (Feb 29) — Women's net: W Morrissey 65.

Twos: J Foot.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, Lunken Cup mixed competition, report by 8.45am for 9am shotgun start; SUNDAY, March 22, Gisborne Thistle AFC tournament; Summit Forestry 2-Day Easter Open tournament (men and women).

A run of three birdies propelled Kahu Waitoa to an emphatic win in the first round of the Jo Hale Memorial Trophy on Sunday.

Waitoa had birdies on 5, 6 and 7 in his 74-17-57 to set the pace in the four-round series. He was five shots clear of an in-form Bill Clark, who carded 76-14-62.

SUNDAY — Jo Hale Memorial Trophy (net), round 1: K Waitoa 74-17-57, B Clark 76-14-62, P Ngarimu 82-18-64, J Babbington-Welsh 90-26-64, H Rasmussen 65, J Puha 66, N Truman 67, J Devery 69.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, Te Puia Springs open opening day tournament, 11am start, Canadian mixed foursomes and men's stableford sections.

It's probably no surprise to most who know Shayde Skudder to see his name next to yet another sub-par score at Patutahi this year.

The naturally talented Skudder played just three official 18-hole rounds last year — a number he has more than doubled so far in 2020.

A hot round was inevitable.

Skudder won the senior men's net on Sunday with 3-under 67-5-62, including four birdies and an eagle on the par-5 first hole.

Andrew Higham matched that gross, also with an eagle (on 10), in his 67-2-65.

The round of the day, however, came in the junior division where Brian Wallace produced his best round since June of 2018 to win with 75-14-61.

Anahera Stills-Hindmarsh won the women's net with 89-24-65, which included a two and a share of the jackpot with Rocky Pardoe.

TUESDAY — Women's net: S Robertson 82-13-69, M Philip 100-26-74.

Best score on par-3s: M Philip.

Twos: M Philip, S Robertson.

SUNDAY — Men's net, senior division: S Skudder 62, S Pohatu 63, G Brown 64, L Anania 64, A Higham 65.

Junior division: B Wallace 61, R Pardoe 64, S Pittar 64, B Pohatu 64, A Hindmarsh 64.

Women's net: A Stills-Hindmarsh 65, C Wesche 65.

Eagles: S Skudder (on 1), A Higham (on 10).

Twos: T Akroyd, H Harris, A Stills-Hindmarsh, R Pardoe.

Jackpot: R Pardoe, A Stills-Hindmarsh.

FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: D Russell 20, M de Luze 19, G Brown 19, A Nimmo 18, J Blair 17.

Junior division: P Jex-Blake 22, D Skudder 20, D Dodgshun 19, N Bunting 19, M Broad 18.

Dan Maitai headed off Mark Watts on countback to win the stableford on Sunday.

Both had 39 points.

SUNDAY — Stableford: D Maitai 39, M Watts 39, J Hale 37, G Watts 36.

Ohope member Dennis Allan and Opotiki's Andrew Morrison led Bay of Plenty to victory in their annual Shark Trophy veterans clash against Gisborne-East Coast on Monday and Tuesday.

Allan, the brother of Poverty Bay member Marg Colebourne, had 40 stableford points at Electrinet Park on day 1 and 41 at Poverty Bay on Tuesday.

Morrison returned 44 at the Park and 38 at the Bay as the visitors averaged 32.59 to GEC's 32.34 to win the trophy.

Best of the home team on day 1 were Bernie Rothschild, Tene Goldsmith and Neal Jones, who each had 39 points.

Doug Coulter and Ray Farmer emulated that score on day 2 at Poverty Bay.

A 40-strong contingent from Bay of Plenty came through for the clash.