Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

BE THE BALL: Poverty Bay-East Coast team member Ellen Ball watches the progress of a shot during the Booth Shield junior interprovincial tournament on her home Poverty Bay course last weekend. Ball won the girls’ 54-hole net title as PBEC’s No.1 team finished fourth overall in the teams’ net tournament. Waikato went home with the shield, which was established by Gisborne couple Nan and the late Jim Booth in 1961. Bay of Plenty were second, 13 shots behind. The talent on show was impressive, including BoP’s James Golding, who finished the three rounds 4-under the card, including a 4-under 68 in his second round. More on the shield in tomorrow’s Herald. Picture by Paul Rickard

Poverty Bay

GLENN Morley served notice to his Sunday School annual trip cohorts with a career-best-equalling round on Sunday.

Morley carded 1-over 73-8-65, for 43 points, for a comfortable division 1 men’s stableford victory, after making eight straight pars on the front nine, and birdies on the 14th and 17th holes.

Despite the excellent score and lining his wallet with the Sunday School booty, he wasn’t altogether happy.

He bogeyed the 18th, which cost him a PB (personal best) at his home track and the usually lucrative Sunday School jackpot for two stableford points or more on every hole.

It is understood ear plugs were handed out to Morley and Co for yesterday’s bus trip to Hawke’s Bay (then on to Palmerston North) to muffle the sound of Ronnie Young yapping about his second hole-in-one.

Young sank a 9-iron on the Bay’s 112-metre six hole during the Gisborne East Coast Veteran Golfers’ Society competition on Tuesday — a testimonial to his new Cobra clubs after saying to club pro Dave Keown he wasn’t sure about them.

The Sunday School boys might want to rub Young’s head for good luck. He was with Neville West when he aced the 154m second hole at the Bay last month for his first taste of golf’s ultimate shot.

Young’s second hole-in-one — his first was on the same hole in January of 2007 — puts him alongside his late father Alan as double-acers.

Vicki Fraser rediscovered form of yesteryears in the women’s Tuesday net. Fraser returned 95-31-64 — her best score off the Bay’s yellow tees in well over three years.

TUESDAY — Women’s net: V Fraser 95-31-64.

Twos: V. Fraser

SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, division 1: G Morley 43, B Morrissey 40, J Situ 37, M Jefferson 36.

Division 2: K Travers 40, C Christie 38, L Hewson 36, P Rickard 36.

Twos: J van Helden, T Akroyd, S Jeune, W Brown, K Travers.

Approach: W Brown.

THURSDAY (Oct 18) — Men’s stableford, division 1: B Allen 37, R Third 37, V Richardson 37, T Sweeney 36.

Division 2: B. Clarke 41, P Goodwin 39, S Willock 36, R Kelly 34.

Approach: G. Burnside.

Gisborne ParkANTHONY Pahina was the star of the Peter Dow Trophy show on Sunday.

Pahina’s 76-14-62, for 46 points, led his team of Wiki Morrissey, Pat Johansen and Rob Taylor to a nine-point win in the team stableford event.

Pahina was particularly impressive on the back nine, shooting 1-under 35.

Phil Simpson posted his best score since January of 2016 in winning the Tuesday veteran men’s stableford last week.

Simpson ended a run of nine three-figure scores with 95-33-62, for 45 points, which he capped with a two on the seventh hole.

Electrinet Park results, SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: R Walford.

Peter Dow Trophy teams’ combined stableford: A Pahina/W Morrissey/P Johansen/R Taylor 155; M Hutton/R Walford/A Watene/B Watene 146.

Village Butchery voucher draw: J Collier.

SATURDAY — Club fun day stableford, men’s division: H Schreiber 41, M Hutton 38 on c/b.

Women’s division: J Akuhata 38, A Watene 38.

Twos: M Hutton.

WEDNESDAY (Oct 17) — Women’s drawn pairs stableford: K McDonald/S Mestrom 75.

TUESDAY (Oct 16) — Veteran men’s stableford: P Simpson 45, M Hutton 42, C Brown 38, L Lexmond 37, P Mitchell 37, E Parkin 37.

Twos: P Simpson, C Palmer.

Tolaga BayTHEIR loads were light and so was the points return in the three-club stableford on Sunday.

Joe Lincoln was the best of the bunch, compiling 30 points to win.

SUNDAY — Three-club stableford: Joe Lincoln 30, J Hale 28, P Stevenson 25.

COMING UP: SUNDAY, November 4, committee meeting, 9am.

PatutahiAN eagle-3 on the 274-metre third hole highlighted Brian Wallace’s winning score in the men’s net on Sunday.

Wallace shot 77-14-63, including a front-nine holes of even-par 35.

Tony Cave cleaned up in the men’s net on Monday, his 80-18-62 featuring a two and the jackpot, and beating Sel Pohatu (75-13-62) on countback.

Helen Pomana enjoyed a double helping of success, winning the women’s net on Sunday with 87-22-65 and Monday with 66.

Andy Nimmo showed his points blitz of twilight golf at Poverty Bay last Wednesday was no fluke. After rattling off 27 points to win at the Bay, two days later he had 26 to win the junior division of the meat pack nine-hole stableford at the ’Tahi.

The combined nines gave him an 18-hole score of 79, exclusive membership to the “Patutahi Thieves” club and a projected handicap index drop from 23.7 to 21.9.

Last week’s Golf Roundup erroneously referred to William Brown running the junior coaching programme at Patutahi. It is, in fact, Hukanui Brown. Sorry, Huks.

MONDAY — Men’s net: T Cave 62, S Pohatu 62, J Blair 63, P Johnston 65, B McKenzie 65.

Women’s net: H Pomana 66.

Twos: T Cave.

Jackpot: T Cave.

SUNDAY — Men’s net: B Wallace 77-14-63, J Blair 86-23-63, S Pittar 96-31-65, P Johnston 85-19-66.

Women’s net: H Pomana 87-22-65.

Twos: B Wallace (eagle on 3).

Jackpot: B Wallace.

FRIDAY — Meat pack nine-hole stableford, senior division: S Pohatu 22, B Williams 22 on c/b.

Junior division: A Nimmo 26, D Somerton 25, K Donovan 23, J Blair 22 on c/b.

Coming up: SUNDAY, Patutahi open closing day tournament, 11am tee-off, Canadian mixed foursomes and men’s sections, contact George Brown 027-370-9869 or horiboy1@xtra.co.nz

Te Puia SpringsIAN Sykes and Nehe Dewes advanced in the Makarika Cup men’s matchplay competition.

Sykes beat James Forrester while Dewes eliminated the in-form Peter Ngarimu.

SUNDAY (Oct 14) — Makarika Cup men’s matchplay: I Sykes def J Forrester, N Dewes def P Ngarimu.

Stableford: J Devery 39, N Dewes 38, D Cook 37, G Roberts 36, J Puha 36, J Forrester 34, P Ngarimu 33, R Ngatai 33, H McClutchie 33.