Tolaga Bay's Murray Yates goes hole-hunting during round 2 of the Tairāwhiti men's interclub pennants on his home course on Saturday. Yates and clubmate Gary McLean (pictured right) won their matches. Photo / Chris Taewa
Tolaga Bay's Murray Yates goes hole-hunting during round 2 of the Tairāwhiti men's interclub pennants on his home course on Saturday. Yates and clubmate Gary McLean (pictured right) won their matches. Photo / Chris Taewa
Electrinet Park
Patutahi girlpower was to the fore, with some help from Mahia, in the Electrinet Gisborne Park Ladies Open foursomes last week.
Patutahi’s Kennedy Sarich combined with Mahia’s Renee Hiko to win the 18-hole net with a score of 75.5.
A countback was needed to decide the champions asPatutahi pair Kim Torrez and Charlie Holland posted the same score.
Karen Hay continued her winning ways, joining forces with fellow Park stalwart Jen Foot to win the 18-hole gross with 91.
Net: R. Hiko/K.Sarich 75.5 on c/b from K. Torrez/C. Holland 75.5, M. Colebourne/M. Shanks 79.5, E. Westwood/L. Steel 79.5, L. Tana/ Paku 80, K. White/T. Aramakutu 80.5, C. Pipi/T. Ford 81, T. Lewis/G. Young 81.5, M. Francois/M. Allan 82.5, S. Paku/S. Maisey 85.
Best third shot on 18: L. Holmberg/J. Kerr.
9-hole section, gross: S. McLaughlin/L. Lautmann 50.
Net: J. French/S. Gardner 18.5, N. Johnson/W. Linton 22.5.
Approach on 5: R. Dymock.
Poverty Bay
David Solomann has happy memories of his former club and added to those while back in his home town on Sunday, despite playing the course the wrong way.
Solomann, now living in Auckland where he is a member of Whitford Park, won the men’s gross in the Play The Course Backwards trundler shed fundraiser.
Members took on a challenging reverse version of Awapuni Links and to help them out, they were allowed to purchase a maximum of 10 mulligans.
Solomann, in Gisborne with son Glenn to represent Waikohu in the Tairāwhiti men’s interclub pennants at Patutahi on the Saturday, used seven mulligans in shooting 65.
Viv Bell’s 94 was good enough to clinch the women’s gross while Sarah Eriksen topped the net with 73.
A birdie of a different kind caused commotion at Poverty Bay last Wednesday.
A playing group of women went to the assistance of one of the roosters that patrol the area by the 15th tee as it was attacked by one of two roaming dogs.
Clubs were used in an effort to shoo off the dog which, with its mate, eventually headed off back up the 14th fairway.
As to the rooster, which the women feared was dead, it got up, a bit wobbly on its feet, and was last seen heading the same way as its attacker.
Andy Nimmo produced his best golf in more than four years, winning twice in three days.
Nimmo won division 1 of the meat pack 9-hole Stableford on Friday with a 1-over 36 for 24 points. He beat Waikohu’s Antony Ruru - who shot 35 also for 24 - on countback.
Handy Andy returned on Sunday to top the division 1 men’s Stableford, over 18 holes, with 78-12-66, for 40.
Selwyn Skudder’s 39 was best of the division 2 men and Denise Johnston displayed machine-like consistency in mixing eight pars and 10 bogeys to win the women’s competition with 81-11-70, for 37.
SUNDAY - Men’s Stableford, division 1: A. Nimmo 40, A. Hindmarsh 39, R. Pardoe 36, T. Hindmarsh 36, J. Neilson 36.
Division 2: Sel Skudder 39, K. Jones 39, C. Brown 36, S. Fookes 35
Women’s Stableford: D. Johnston 37.
Twos: D. Pohatu.
FRIDAY - Meat pack 9-hole Stableford, division 1: A. Nimmo 24, A. Ruru 24, S. Toa 20, G. Solomann 20, B. Williams 20, P. Stewart 20, Blue Toa 19.
Poverty Bay's Dave Pirimona is pictured through the Memorial Gates about to tee off the 11th hole at Tolaga Bay Golf Club in round 2 of the Tairāwhiti Endeavour men's interclub pennants. Photo / Chris Taewa
Men’s pennants
Murray Yates was “Mr Everything” in round 2 of the Endeavour men’s interclub pennants on Saturday
Not only did he play a major role in preparing his home Tolaga Bay course for the handicap matchplay event, he organised the show, sorted the cards, did the prizegiving...and won his match.
Tolaga Bay bounced back from a shaky round 1 at Waikohu to win four of their six round 2 matches for 16 points. Victories to Yates, Peewee Tuapawa, Rongo Pomana and Gary McLean lifted them to 20 points overall.
The mercury is rising in the bid for 2025 pennants glory, with three clubs locked at the top on 32 points - Waikohu, Te Puia Hot Springs and Patutahi.
Patutahi added 16 points to their total through wins to Pat Molloy, Tony Green, Watene Brown and Michael Broad.
The Springs compiled 14 points from victories to Ian Logan, Eruera West and Ken Lewis, and a half for Daryl Goldsmith.
Waikohu also racked up 14 with wins to Tipi Ruru, Frank Ngatoro and Sonny Ritchie, and a half to Tama Brown.
Mahia are only two points off the pace on 30 points courtesy of wins to Bruce Maher, David Waihaki and Roger Bremner and a half to Hira Campbell.
Poverty Bay (1) managed eight points and are fifth overall on 24 points after a win to Carl Carmody and halves from Bruce Talbot and Kit Goldsmith.
Tolaga Bay are sixth on 20, followed by Electrinet Gisborne Park, who lifted their total to 18 with wins to Heath Tupara and Mason Emery and a half from Mat Greeks.
Poverty Bay (2) are entrenched at the foot of the table on eight points. Andy Hayward’s win saved them from a whitewash.
The player of the day was Park’s Tupara, who posted 41 Stableford points. Only four others played to handicap or better.
