CLUB CHAMPION: Anuresh Chandra is the 2018 Gisborne Park senior men’s club champion. Fijian Chandra, who recently shifted to Gisborne from Christchurch, beat Zane Boyle on the 35th hole of the matchplay final. Picture supplied
Gisborne ParkA NEW face looks set to be a familiar face on the golfing scene after Anuresh Chandra’s senior men’s club championship final victory on Sunday.
Chandra, who bar the club champs matchplay has played only two official 18-hole rounds at the Park since joining the club in July, beat a gallant Zane Boyle 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final.
Chandra held a decisive 4-up lead at the lunchtime break but Boyle fought back over the third nine and squared the match on the 25th.
He went up for the first time with a birdie on the 31st but former Fiji national golfing representative Chandra showed his mettle under pressure, including a fine birdie on the 33rd, and after Boyle missed a five-footer on the 34th, Chandra closed it out on the 35th.
Bo Huhu ended a hoodoo with his victory in the intermediate men’s final against Steve Phillips.
Huhu went into the match having lost three-out-of-three club championship finals — the endeavour, junior and last year’s senior final.
He put that to bed with an 8 and 7 win, forging a 3-up lead at the 18-hole stage, then winning five of the opening seven holes in the afternoon.
“It really felt good to get my first win,” said the popular Park member.
Peter Koorey and Ray Grace fought out a humdinger junior final — Koorey getting home on the first extra hole.
In what has probably been the best patch of his career, John Charles came from 3-down to beat Barry Cox 2 and 1 in the endeavour final.
Charles, who recently won the division 2 Handicap Cup and shot a stableford-winning 84-21-63, for 45 points on Saturday, found himself three holes light standing on the eighth tee.
He won the next two, then had a run of three wins, chucked a birdie at Cox on the 15th and finished it two holes later.
Cox’s efforts included twos on the seventh and 14th holes.
Electrinet Park results, SUNDAY — Men’s club championship final, senior division: A Chandra def Z Boyle 2 and 1.
Intermediate: B Huhu def S Phillips
Junior: P Koorey def R Grace on the 19th.
Endeavour: J Charles def B Cox 2 and 1.
Men’s stableford: J Glassford 37.
Twos: J Glassford.
Women’s net: K McDonald.
Drawn two: T McDonald.
SATURDAY — Men’s stableford: J Charles 84-21-63, 45; S Peneha 80-10-70, 38.
WaikohuKAHU Tamanui was on fire in winning the Lena and Graeme Baty Memorial Trophy on Sunday.
Tamanui rattled off 44 stableford points to go with niece Audrey Tamanui-Nunn’s 31 for a total of 75 in the drawn mixed pairs competition.
They were two points ahead of Audrey’s son Percy Milner (41) and Margaret Tuapawa.
Te Puia SpringsANOTHER Te Puia Hot Springs senior club championship.
Another win to Andrew Higham.
Another Te Puia/Poverty Bay senior double.
Jason Devery was the latest to fall to Higham, who dropped one shot in the first 18 holes of their matchplay final on Saturday, then played the next 10 holes 2-under to win 9 and 8.
The hole of the day had to be the par-5 seventh, where both players hit driver-driver and two-putted from about 15-feet for matching birdies.
Higham two weeks ago won the Poverty Bay senior title and adding the Te Puia crown made it six times he has achieved that double.
SUNDAY — Women’s stableford: R Ngatai 38, I Ngarimu 34.
Approach in two on the 14th: I Ngarimu.
Men’s stableford: P Ngarimu 38, H Rasmussen 38, N Dewes 33, R Smith 33.
Senior men’s club championship final: A Higham def J Devery.
COMING UP: SUNDAY, first round of Makarika Cup for men, Morrow Cup 27-hole competition for women, 9am tee-off.
PatutahiHAMISH Harris headed off Chris Beattie on countback in an impressive Sunday of men’s net scoring.
Harris won with 88-25-63, with Beattie’s 76-13-63 second on countback.
Hukanui Brown had six birdies in his even-par 70 but his 66 was only good enough for fourth.
TUESDAY — LGU: M Winiata 101-27-74, R Burgess 118-38-80.
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: H Harris 63, C Beattie 63, A Hindmarsh 65, H Brown 66.
FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: T Brodie 20, B Wallace 19, O Willimott 19.
Junior division: D Maloy 23, C Summersby 19, R Shannon 18, A Hindmarsh 18.
Tolaga BayMARK Watts’ 42-point haul won him the stableford on Sunday.
He was two points ahead of Joe Lincoln, with distance back to Pete Stevenson.
SUNDAY — Stableford: M Watts 42, Joe Lincoln 40, P Stevenson 33.?
COMING UP: SUNDAY, all-irons day.
Poverty BayGISBORNE East Coast Cancer Society benefited to the tune of around $5000 from this year’s fundraising tournament.
Another excellent prize table was presented by Peter Florence and his small team of organisers and once again every player went home with something . . . in many cases, somethings.
The scoring was modest off tees that were well forward for the men. Darren Patumaka’s 81-13-68, for 40 points, was the best; a point ahead of Glen Burnside.
The performance of the day, however, came from Jo Tietjen, who shot 103-34-69, for 41 points, to win the women’s section.
Anaru Reedy won the gross with 2-over 74.
Stefan Andreaasen won the Callaghan family-sponsored drawn prize in memory of the late Wayne Callaghan, one of the instigators of the tournament.
Bruce Talbot struck timely form in winning the division 2 men’s stableford on Saturday with 84-18-66, for 42 points. He is among the 80 players who teed off today in the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay men’s open.
SUNDAY — Gisborne East Coast Cancer Society fundraiser, men’s gross: A Reedy 74.
Women’s stableford (top 10): J Tietjen 41, M Shanks 38, P Gayford 35, O Thompson 33, V Fraser 33, R Taewa 33, J MacKinnon 31, M Colebourne 30, B Walker 30, D Kirkpatrick 29.
Men’s stableford (top 10): D Patumaka 40, G Burnside 39, P Rickard 38, T Reynolds 38, Z Rolls 38, D Wright 38, R Gibson 39, C Taewa 37, G Marchbank 37, D Griffin 37.
SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: G Brown 40, S Andreassen 40, T Donovan 38, P Butler 38.
Division 2: B Talbot 42, M Armstrong 38, R Young 38, C Poole 37.
Twos: T Donovan, D Griffin.
Approach: T Donovan.
THURSDAY (Sept 20) — Men’s stableford, division 1: A Abrahams 39, I Murphy 37, A White 36, V Richardson 35, P Graham 35, C Poole 35.
Division 2: J Williams 40, M Gemmell 39, J Aitchison 39, B Clarke 39.
Twos: G Burnside, I Murphy.
Approach: P Clayton.