A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Electrinet Park
Kino White delivered a comeback queen performance to win the Agnes Attwood women’s matchplay final on Saturday.
Trailing opponent Carney Pipi 5-down after nine holes, White fought back to square the match and went on to win the silverware on the second extra hole of a sudden-death playoff.
Big-hitting Josh Adams was in career-best form in winning the men’s stableford on Sunday with 82-16-66, for 42 points.
Chris Fox proved woods are over-rated in winning the “Ironfist” men’s international stableford played off the yellow tees on Tuesday. He was well clear of the field.
The Tuesday veterans’ competition was a five-club stableford — Wayne Carpendale leading the way with 43 points off the yellow tees and Kino White second with 41 off the reds.
Dan Collier continued his sublime sub-par form last week and into the weekend. He won the Gordon’s Pharmacy 9-hole stableford on Thursday with a sensational 5-under 31, for 21 points, which featured four birdies and an eagle-3 on the ninth.
He posted a 4-under 68 on Saturday — his fourth round in red figures this year.
Ray Grace is leading the pack heading into the third and final round of the Summer Cup men’s aggregate net series this Sunday.
Grace is sitting on 83 points, followed by Steve Phillips on 76, Brad Reynolds 75 and Glen McKinnon 70.
TUESDAY — Ironfist men’s stableford (irons only off yellow tees): C Fox 21, D Gregory 10, J Adams 9.
Approach: J Devery.
Long drive: C Christophers.
Twos: J Devery 2, J Adams, C Fox, M Henwood, J Witika.
Birdie board: J Adams.
Veterans’ 5-club stableford (men off yellow tees, women off reds): W Carpendale 43, K White 41, D Harrison 40
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: J Adams 42, C Fox 41, R Moore 39, P Nepia 38.
Twos: R Moore, G McKinnon, J Akurangi.
THURSDAY (Feb 1) — Gordon’s Pharmacy 9-hole stableford: D Collier 21, D Price 21.
Men’s long drive: J Devery.
Women’s long drive: K White .
Approach: D Price.
Birdie board: D Collier.
Monkey on the back: P Dagg.
Simulator challenge: J Adams.
Non-golfers’ section: G Toa.
Poverty Bay
“It’ll come.”
The words of Brian Morrissey as he looks to add to his age-breaking performances.
Eighty-year-old BJ has done it plenty of times at his old club — Te Puia Hot Springs — and a few times at Poverty Bay where he has been a member for several years, including December 11, 2022, when he shot 79 at the age of 78.
And as the course dries out, middle-finding Morrissey has been threatening to do it again with three rounds of 81 this year so far.
The latest was on Tuesday in the weekly veterans’ competition he runs, although his 81-12-69, for 39 stableford points, was only good enough for second behind Māhia member Kelvin Ellison’s 90-22-68, for 40.
Don Wright’s Saturday Primo Cup net-winning 83-17-66 was the round of the week.
Andy Hayward (39pts) and Nigel Jones (40) were the Sunday Division 1 and 2 men’s stableford winners respectively.
Neil Mackie won Division 1 men’s stableford last Thursday with 40 points while Richard Owen topped Division 2 with 38.
TUESDAY — Veterans’ stableford: K Ellison 40, B Morrissey 39, C Christie 37, S Franks 37, L Foster 36, R Brott 36.
Twos: C Christie.
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Patutahi
Gary “Bubba” Watson ventured into the 80s for the first time in two years in the net competition on Sunday.
Watson won the junior men’s division with 87-23-64 while Ben Cameron’s 79-10-69 was best of the senior division and Shelley Robertson shot 85-18-67 to top the women.
SUNDAY — Women’s net: S Robertson 67.
Senior men’s net: B Cameron 69, P Hokianga 70, T Brodie 71, B McKenzie 71, D Russell 72 on c/b.
Junior men’s net: G Watson 64, B Pohatu 65, B Tietjen 68, K Harrison 69, W Stevens 69 on c/b.
Twos: T Brodie, D Skudder.
FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, senior division: Sel Pohatu 22, S Toa 22, Blue Toa 21, P Malloy 19, J Blair 19.
Junior division: P Tinnelly 22, C Kaa 20, W Stevens 20, S Fookes 19, G Holland 19.
Te Puia Hot Springs
Iritana Ngarimu ended a run of three-figure scores in emphatic style on Sunday.
Ngarimu had a birdie-2 on the sixth hole as she fired 93-27-66 to win the women’s net by four shots from Hazel Miratana.
Pete Harrison was Mr Consistency in his men’s net-winning round. He put together two nines of 46 in a 92-28-64 .
SUNDAY — Women’s net: I Ngarimu 93-27-66, H Miratana 91-21-70, R Ngatai 99-25-74.
Men’s net: P Harrison 92-28-64, T Forrester 77-12-65, E West 90-25-65.
Twos: I Ngarimu.
Tolaga Bay
Birdies on the same hole — the par-5 first and 10th — highlighted Dan Maitai’s best round in nearly two years on Sunday.
Maitai won the stableford with 78-16-62, for 42 points. His last taste of sub-80s scoring was a 79 six months ago, which ended a drought dating back to February 2022.
SUNDAY — Stableford: D Maitai 42, C Wenstock 38, G McLean 38, Joe Lincoln 38.
Māhia
Māhia is holding a mixed foursomes and men’s stableford competition on Saturday, February 24.
Entry fee includes a meal.
Tee-off is 11am after a cup of tea from 10am.
Inquiries to Maraea 027-229-2342.
waikohu
Waikohu’s open opening day is on Saturday.
A cup of tea at 10.30am will be followed y tee-off at 11.30am.
There are Canadian foursomes and men’s sections.
Inquiries to Tama Brown 027-449-3473 or Audrey Tamanui-Nunn 022-177-2474.
Tahunga
Tahunga’s 50th anniversary is on April 27.
A light lunch at 11am will be followed by a nine-hole pairs competition at midday.
The anniversary will also feature a closest to the pin competition from 3.30pm on Tahunga’s famous bridge hole.
A barbecue and prizegiving will follow at 6pm.
Those interested in attending can RSVP on Tahunga’s Facebook page or email tahungagolfclub@gmail.com
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