Father and daughter Graeme Holland and Kim Torrez won the Guy Farmer Memorial Trophy South African pairs Stableford title at the Pātūtahi Golf Club last weekend.
Di Sherratt shone on a dry course and a warm summer’s day as a huge field enjoyed another successful edition of the First Light Frozen/Taste One Xmas Hams Tournament on Sunday.
Sherratt’s 102-35-67, for 43 points, was the top women’s Stableford and her best round at Awapuni Links since she and husband Tim shifted from Tahunga over 10 years ago.
Another Tahunga-linked player, Sarah Eriksen, was a point behind with her best round in three years – 100-32-68.
Ōpōtiki member Kala Reeve had 38, as did home-course player Debbie Kirkpatrick, followed by Mahia’s Maraea Wesche (37) and Poverty Bay’s Lynne Holmberg (37).
Sunday regular Lee Pollitt returned the top men’s Stableford of 41 points, a point clear of Division 1 men’s winner Stefan Andreassen and runner-up Allan White.
Brian Morrissey Christmas-pimped his golf buggy ride and matched it with 39 points to top Division 2 on countback from Paul “The Pro” Rickard.
Electrinet Park member Sefo Fonoti’s 40 points won Division 3 by one point from Pātūtahi’s Dave Dodgshun and Poverty Bay’s Mark Karalus.
Waka Donnelly shot 1-under 71 – nines of 33 and 39 – to win the men’s gross by one shot from William Brown, who is back home from Rotorua where he recently took over as chief superintendent at the Arikikapakapa course, and Robert Maruszewski, back from a lengthy injury break.
Rochelle Taewa shot 85 to win the women’s gross, three ahead of Lynne Holmberg.
Mark Jefferson is the man to beat after two rounds of the Summer Cup men’s net series.
Jefferson is leading on 142, thanks to his Round 2 73-6-67 to go with a Round 1 net 75.
He is two strokes ahead of Colin Simpson (70, 74), with Jarome Finch (79, 73) and Dirk Bullivant (74, 78) third-equal on 152.
Plenty of water is still to flow under the Summer Cup bridge. Players count their best three of five net scores. Round 3 is on December 20.
SATURDAY - Men’s Stableford, Division 1: J. Kerekere 36, M. Thomas 36.
Division 2: K. Gunness 40, M. Smith 35.
Twos: J. Kerekere, T. Goldsmith, D. Bush, W. Donnelly, K. Gunness.
Nearest to pin: K. Goldsmith.
THURSDAY (Dec 11) - Men’s Stableford, Division 1: I. Murphy 37, K. Goldsmith 37, B. Anderson 36, A. Kirkpatrick 34, A. White 34.
Division 2: J. Aitchison 40, B. Read 39, H. Williams 38, C. Morton 37.
Twos: H. Williams, T. Goldsmith, S. Harbottle, M. Jefferson, S. Andreassen, J. Aitchison.
Nearest to pin: S. Harbottle.
A father-and-daughter combo paid tribute to the memory of a top club man with a top performance on Sunday.
Kim Torrez and her dad Graeme Holland won the Guy Farmer Memorial Trophy South African pairs Stableford.
Torrez was the star of the show. Fresh from picking up a ham at the Ōpōtiki Christmas tournament, she fired a personal-best 91-28-63, which also won her the women’s net.
Holland did his bit in his net 70 round and together they amassed 89 points for the format, in which pairs multiply their Stableford scores on each hole and add these together for an 18-hole total.
Husband and wife Peter and Denise Johnston, both of whom had net 67s on the day, were second on 85 points.
Selwyn Skudder (82-14-68) won the Division 1 men’s net and Chris Kaa (85-18-67) the Division 2 net.
Tairāwhiti representative Jason Devery birdied 16, 17 and 18 on his way to winning Division 1 of the Friday meat pack Stableford with 33-1-32, for 22 points.
Chris Harris carried his winning form from the Wednesday haggle into Friday to top Division 2 with 23 points.
The Pātūtahi Christmas Hams tournament is chock-a-block and play is expected to be slow in the afternoon. The draw is on the Pātūtahi Golf Club Facebook page.
The club will be running $5 meat pack haggles from 12 noon to 3pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
SUNDAY – Guy Farmer Memorial Trophy, South African mixed pairs Stableford: G. Holland/K. Torrez 89 from P. Johnston/D. Johnston 85.
Women’s net: K. Torrez 63, D. Johnston 67, H. Pomana 69.
Division 1 men: S. Skudder 68, D. Wilson 69, B. McKenzie 69, P. Hokianga 71, L. Anania 71 on c/b.
Division 2 men: C. Kaa 67, M. de Luze 67, P. Johnston 67, L. Jamieson 68, J. Blair 70 on c/b.
Twos: R. Hindmarsh.
Eagle 3 on 10: J. Devery.
FRIDAY – Meat pack 9-hole Stableford, Division 1: J. Devery 22, D. Dodgshun 22, A. Hindmarsh 20, B. Cameron 20, Sel Pohatu 20.
Division 2: C. Harris 23, H. Pomana 22, C. Blumfield 22, G. Maude 21, D. Somerton 20 on c/b.
Richard and Andrea Reeves were like jack-in-the-boxes at the club’s end-of-season prizegiving on Saturday.
The couple enjoyed a hugely successful year, highlighted by their respective senior men’s and women’s club championship title wins.
The prizegiving and dinner were preceded by the traditional Guys versus Dolls competition, and the 2025 honours went the way of the dolls.
SATURDAY – Guys v Dolls annual competition: Dolls.
2025 major title winners – Summer Cup: Sonny Ritchie, Andrea Reeves.
Handicap singles: Richard Reeves, Ella Wynyard.
Senior club champions: Richard Reeves, Andrea Reeves.
Intermediate club champions: Larry Green, Audrey Tamanui-Nunn.
Junior club champions: Sonny Ritchie, Marg Tuapawa.
Men’s pairs champions: Terry Reeves and Mike Christophers.
Women’s pairs champions: Toni Rutene and Andrea Reeves.
Rutene Cup: Cheryl Te Rito.
Coates Trophy: Kahu Tamanui.
McLean Trophy: Ella Wynyard.
Baty Cup: Ike Ruru and Penny Rutene.
Shootout winners: Sonny Ritchie, Ella Wynyard
Course backwards, individual: Blair Culshaw, Andrea Reeves.
Course backwards, drawn pairs: Richard Reeves and Marg Tuapawa.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, pre-Christmas haggle.
The drought has broken.
Sixty-one consecutive rounds over 100 ended for Zak Horomia on December 5.
Having won the twilight Stableford with 22 points two days before, Horomia shot 98-38-60, for 44 points, to win the Sunday (December 7) Stableford.
It was his first round under a ton since a 97 on December 18, 2022.
SUNDAY – Cross-country net: W. Reedy 63, M. Watts 66, J. Sheridan 68.
Approach: D. Maitai.
SUNDAY (Dec 7) – Stableford: Z. Horomia 44, J. Hale 41, M. Watts 31, D. Maitai 31.
FRIDAY (Dec 5) – Twilight Stableford: Z. Horomia 22.
Hiria McClutchie’s purple patch continues.
McClutchie carded her fourth consecutive sub-90 round in winning the women’s Stableford on Sunday with 85-21-64, for 40 points.
James Forrester won the men’s section with 37 points.
SUNDAY – Women’s Stableford: H. McClutchie 40, I. Ngarimu 35.
Men’s Stableford: J. Forrester 37, B Clark 36.
The Electrinet Park AGM is being held at 9am on Sunday, January 11, at the clubhouse.