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PatutahiTHE Brown Bombers launched a Sunday assault on Patutahi’s open opening day tournament.

Eddie Brown Junior, younger brother Hukanui, father Eddie (Whata) Senior and the boys’ cousin Jace Brown filled the top four places in the men’s stableford.

Eddie Jr won with 3-under par 67-6-61, for 45 points. His round, one below his lowest score at ’Tahi, featured seven birdies and a shank on the 14th hole which led to a double bogey.

Hukanui went even lower — a personal best-equalling 65-2-63, for 43 points, that included six birdies and a lone bogey.

Eddie Sr had 13 pars in his 76-12-64, for 42, while Jace Brown was fourth with 71-6-65, for 41.

The Brown brothers are in the gorilla category when it comes to driving but Jace Brown made them look like bunnies with his long drive-winning effort — a 320-metre blow from tee to green on the par-4 seventh. His cuzzies were 20m in arrears.

The Canadian mixed pairs stableford was also a family affair, Tom Hindmarsh and daughter Anahera Stills-Hindmarsh winning with 44 points.

Tolaga Bay couple Mark and Ginger Watts were second on 43 and Patutahi’s Wayne Baty and Sheree Gray were third on 42.

TUESDAY — Women’s net: J Ewart 88-24-64, L Haisman 102-29-73.

SUNDAY — Patutahi open opening day tournament, Canadian mixed pairs stableford: T Hindmarsh/A Stills-Hindmarsh 44, M and G Watts 43, W Baty/S Gray 42, U Chambers/C Te Rito 40, J Blair/H Humble 40, M Tuapawa/T Ruru 40, P and D Johnston 39.

Men’s stableford, 0-16: E Brown Jr 45, H Brown 43, E Brown Sr 42, J Brown 41, A Hindmarsh 40, S Skudder 40, M Stock 40.

17+: R Moleta 42, R Pardoe 42, G Watson 42, D Skudder 41, M Wiersma 41, D Quinn 40, A Nimmo 39.

Long drives, men: J Brown, P Molloy, J Maynard.

Long drives, women: MJ Bloem, C Te Rito.

Approaches men: E Brown Jr, E Brown Sr, H Harris.

Approaches, women: S Robertson.

Twos: E Brown Jr, H Brown, Joe Lincoln, A Chandra.

FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: A Blakeman 25, J Brodie 23, C Beattie 23, J Brown 22, M Pohatu 21.

Junior division: M Owen 25, J Winiata 22, S Fookes 22, J Blair 20, S Robertson 19.

Gisborne ParkMIHI Marino has been waiting for over a year to sign for a score in the 80s. She achieved that on Saturday in fine style, carding 86-22-64 to win her division of the LGU on Saturday.

It was her first sub-90 score since January 2018 and her lowest number in nearly two years.

Di Webb overcame a 10 on the first hole to top her division with 106-39-67.

The women were also in good touch on Sunday. Rebecca Walford won the net with 92-25-67, with Wiki Morrissey second withn 84-17-67.

Anthony Pahina birdied a third of the course in winning the men’s par on Saturday. He had six birdies, including three in a row from the 12th to 14th holes in his 75-12-63, +6 on the card.

Electrinet Park results, SUNDAY — Men’s net: L Green 69, P Wellard 69, D Harrison 69.

Women’s net: R Walford 67, W Morrissey 67.

Men’s best second shot: A Pahina.

Women’s best third shot: J Akuhata.

Approach: Rebecca Walford.

Twos: J Charles.

SATURDAY — Men’s par: A Pahina +6, E Parkin +2.

Twos: R Moore, A Pahina

LGU, silver division: J Foot 71.

Bronze, division 1: M Marino 64.

Bronze, division 2: D Webb 67.

WEDNESDAY (Feb 13) — Women’s net: P Shaw 103-38-65.

Drawn two: M Marino.

COMING UP: SATURDAY/SUNDAY, April 20-21, Summit Forestry NZ Ltd 36-hole Easter tournament, start sheet at office.

Poverty BayHIS first sub-par round. Now for one in the 60s. That’s the next mission possible for Glenn Morley after a career-best performance on Sunday.

The former Poverty Bay representative cricketer, now hooked on golf, stormed home over the Bay’s famous final six holes to shoot 1-under 71-7-64.

A round in red figures at the Bay had been top of his “to do” list but after going out of bounds on the par-5 12th and making double bogey, it was looking like the wait would continue.

Morley responded with birdies on the 14th, 16th and 17th holes as he played the last six — all par-4s — 3-under. That included a pressure-filled sand save on the last for par.

Morley’s 44 points won him the division 1 men’s stableford and he capped the day with a two and the approach on the sixth.

Don Griffin impressed in testing Saturday conditions. He won the division one men’s stableford with 78-11-67, for 41 points.

Stefan Andreassen carded even-par 72 last Thursday to win the division 1 stableford with 41 points.

Peter Humphreys was a man possessed in a front nine of 2-over 38 on Thursday. The back nine kept it real, 49, although he still put together 87-21-66, for 42 points, to win division 2.

If every dog has its day, then Chris Duncan’s was Sunday. Duncan defied his 18-handicap with 76 off the stick, easily his best round on the NZ Golf handicap website and 21 strokes lower than the Sunday before.

Odette Thompson won the women’s stableford on Monday with 96-27-69, for 41 points.

WEDNESDAY — LGU, silver: R Taewa 84-13-71.

Bronze 1: O Thompson 98-27-71.

Bronze 2: T Lewis 99-28-71.

9-holers: J Roe-Mason 55-21-34.

MONDAY — Women’s stableford: O Thompson 96-27-69, 41.

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: G Morley 44, R Gibson 42.

Division 2: M Thomas 38, P Grogan 37.

Twos: G Morley, J Situ.

Approach: G. Morley.

SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: D Griffin 41, C Poole 40, P Hakiwai 36, N Mackie 36.

Division 2: N Jones 36, B Payne 35, R Skuse 34, W Thompson 34.

Twos: D Griffin, D Bush, T Goldsmith, M Stewart.

Approach: T Goldsmith.

THURSDAY (Feb 14) — Men’s stableford, division 1: S Andreassen 41, T Sweeney 40, M Higham 39, J van Helden 36, T Donovan 36.

Division 2: P Humphreys 42, R Skuse 39, P Goodwin 38, R Veall 37, B Hall 37.

Twos: D Griffin, I Murphy, P Kerekere.

Approach: P Kerekere.

The draw for the Hutchinson Cup women’s matchplay (to be played before Feb 27) is — O Thompson v S Bramwell, V Fletcher v M Colebourne, J. MacKinnon v V Bell, M Shanks v M Powdrell, R Taewa v V Fraser, L Fletcher v M Williams, J Utting v G Young, M Allan v MJ Bloem.

COMING UP: TODAY, TOMORROW, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY, the Bull Cup men’s teams’ stableford aggregate, teams must play together on either of these days; TUESDAY, Feb 26, junior golf weekly sessions resume, 3.30pm.

Te Puia SpringsAN eagle-2 on the 14th hole highlighted Bill Clark’s victory in the club stableford on Sunday.

Clark followed it up with a birdie-2 on the 14th in his 76-18-58, for 44 points.

It was just enough to win on a day of excellent scoring. Nelson Truman also had 44 points, but missed out on countback, while Hiria McClutchie and Roly Smith were a point back.

SUNDAY — Stableford: B Clark 44, N Truman 44, H McClutchie 43, R Smith 43, A Cook 41, I Sykes 41, R Ngatai 40, J Forrester 40, P Ngarimu 39, P Savage 37, J Babbington-Welsh 37, P Harrison 35, G Roberts 35, N Dewes 34, H Rasmussen 34.

Twos: B Clark 2 ( including eagle on 13).

COMING UP: SUNDAY, March 3, Peter Rouse Open Memorial Tournament, men’s and women’s divisions, rolling tee start from 10am to 12 noon.

Tolaga BayThe Tolaga Bay open opening day tournament scheduled for Sunday has been postponed.

It will now be held the following Sunday, March 3.