A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
MĀhia
Fairways past and present will be walked this weekend when Māhia Golf Club celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Stories will start flowing tomorrow at a 9-hole competition from 3pm followed by a meet and greet at 6pm.
Saturday features 18 holes of golf from 11am and nine holes from 1pm.
From 6pm there will be a dinner, cake-cutting and speeches.
Sunday is the usual club golf from 12 noon.
Home-course player Renee Hiko was the stand-out at the Māhia Women’s Open on Saturday.
Hiko won the overall net title with an excellent 93-25-68 on a day when the course got the better of most.
Waikohu’s Marg Tuapawa was a stroke back.
Home-course players Trenia Smith (senior) and Elaine Westwood (junior) won the 18-hole gross titles; Waikohu’s Ella Wynyard (senior) and Tuapawa (junior) the nets; and Electrinet Park’s Kino White (senior) and Wairoa’s Dardie Brown (junior) the stablefords.
Last Sunday’s club competition was washed out.
Waikohu
Tipi Ruru converted his form from Round 1 of the Endeavour men’s interclub pennants at Māhia to his home track last weekend.
Ruru, who helped Waikohu set the pace at the top of the table, won the men’s stableford with 37 points while Marg Tuapawa’s 36 was best of the women.
Tuapawa’s effort followed her junior net-winning performance at the Māhia women’s open the day before.
The “big boys” of Tairāwhiti golf are at Waikohu tomorrow for rounds 3 and 4 of the Oligoi Jug interclub pennants.
Round 2 of the Endeavour handicap pennants is at Patutahi tomorrow.
Sunday — Men’s stableford: T Ruru 37, E Reeves 35, T Reeves 35, P Milner 33, L Green 33.
Women’s stableford: M Tuapawa 36, E Wynyard 31, V Grace 30.
Twos: Percy Milner.
COMING UP: SATURDAY, Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants; SUNDAY, club competition.
Te Puia Hot Springs
Iritana Ngarimu was Te Puia Hot Springs’ star away from home on Saturday and a winner at home on Sunday.
Ngarimu won the President’s Cup and LGU with 90-25-65.
It followed her 37-point stableford haul the day before at the Māhia Women’s Open which was also Round 4 of the Tairāwhiti women’s interclub pennants. Ngarimu was the best of the
four-woman Te Puia team.
Matching nines of 36 earned Mark Higham the men’s stableford honours — he posted 72-7-65, for 37 points.
SUNDAY — President’s Cup/LGU/putting: I Ngarimu 90-25-65, 26 putts; R Ngatai 96-26-70, 26 putts.
Men’s stableford: M Higham 72-7-65, 37; E West 85-19-66, 36.
Twos: H Rasmussen, B Clark.
Poverty Bay
It has been a long time between sub-80 drinks for Pat Butler, but he ended it in style last Thursday.
Butler carded 76-10-66, for 42 points, to win the Division 1 men’s stableford.
It was his first sub-80 score since a 76 in February of 2023. Forty-four rounds in the 80s or 90s followed.
Butler made it two victories in three days on Saturday when he won the Division 1 stableford with 80-9-71, for 37.
Gray Clapham had what he described as an “uncanny” day as he chalked up the round of the week last Thursday.
“Grayzy” shot 81-16-65, for 44 points, won the Division 2 stableford and cleaned up the “Thursday School”.
His round was highlighted by a chip-in for par from thick rough on the 13th after putting his third through the back of the green.
It was Clapham’s best round at Awapuni Links since his career-best 75 in October of 2020.
Other men’s competition winners over the week were Murray Smith (40 points), Kurt Summersby (40) and Phil Grogan (35).
SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, Division 1: K Summersby 40, J Kerekere 38, D Robertson 37, J Situ 36, P Rickard 36.
Division 2: P Grogan 35, A Putnam 34, R Young 33, C Morton 32.
Twos: C Simpson 2, K Marshall, D Pirimona, J Kerekere, B Morgan, B Talbot, S Andreassen, J Leaf .
Approach: T Akroyd.
Jackpot: C Simpson.
SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, Division 1: P Butler 37, S Harbottle 35, S Francks 35.
Division 2: M Smith 40, K Goldsmith 37, B Simpson 36.
Twos: T Goldsmith.
Approach: P Butler.
Thursday (April 18) — Men’s stableford, Division 1: P Butler 42, C Dean 39, A Kirkpatrick 38, J Van Helden 38.
Division 2: G Clapham 44, D Bush 38, Reid Fletcher 36, M Reynolds 34, M Smith 34.
Twos: S Jeune 2, N Hansen 2, W Brown.
Approach: C Poole.
Jackpot: S Jeune.
COMING UP: SATURDAY, May 25, Enterprise Motor Group Open Foursomes, men’s, women’s and mixed sections, shotgun start at 12 noon, gross, net and stableford sections, followed by prizegiving and barbecue.
Electrinet Park
The cream eventually rose to the top but it took 18 holes or more to decide most Men’s Handicap Cup champions on Saturday.
Zane Boyle won the senior final in what was expected to be a blow-for-blow battle with Matt Henwood.
The 17th hole proved crucial. Boyle, who was 1-down, sank a 10-foot for a scrambling par then watched as his opponent three-putted from what Boyle estimated to be about 6-feet for bogey and the loss.
Boyle then parred the 18th to snatch victory.
The intermediate final also went 18 holes, with John Collier Jr defeating Chris Fox.
Matt Downie outgunned Steve Rolls 3 and 1 in the only final that did not reach the clubhouse/Rugby Park green.
The endeavour final required extra holes, Steve Johnson beating Lindsay Hunt on the 19th.
Teenager Marcus Gray has a career of achievements ahead of him.
Last Friday he added to what could become a lengthy list with consecutive eagles in a personal-best round at the Park.
The left-hander eagled the 455-metre par-5 eighth then followed up with another eagle-3 on the 436m ninth. He hit both greens for two and nearly made double-eagle or albatross on the ninth — putting his second to tap-in distance.
His round of 1-over 73 featured the two eagles, two birdies, seven pars and seven bogeys.
SUNDAY — Hidden holes net: L Hunt 35, M Bond 35, W Muir 36, C Fox 36.
Twos: H Tupara, D Collier, W Muir, J Hayes, P Nepia, R Walford.
Tolaga Bay
A quadruple bogey-8 on the fifth hole did not stop Dan Maitai from winning the the Sunday net with 83-15-68.
SUNDAY — Net: D Maitai 68, Taine Lincoln 70.
Putting: B Yates 28.
Twos: G McLean.
Approach: Taine Lincoln.
Women’s pennants
Māhia are in the box seat after four rounds of the Tairāwhiti women’s interclub pennants.
The latest round was held in conjunction with the Māhia Women’s Open on Saturday and the home club made the most of their advantage, led by Renee Hiko.
Hiko contributed 42 points to the Māhia team stableford aggregate of 136 points — eight clear of second-placed Patutahi, whose best was Kim Torrez with 36.
Māhia’s other team members were Susy Adam (34pts), Viv Kyle (33) and Maria Wesche (27).
Iritana Ngarimu’s 37 points helped Te Puia Hot Springs to third with 127.
Dardie Brown and Tina Duncan had 33 points apiece as Wairoa finished fourth on 126.
Kino White’s 34 points was the best of Electrinet Park’s 124 total, which placed them fifth.
Poverty Bay were sixth on 120, Peri Gayford (35pts) their best individual performer.
Māhia are the overall leaders on 20 points, followed by Patutahi and Te Puia Hot Springs (both on 18), Wairoa (15), Poverty Bay (8) and Park (6).
Vet Kumar in the runs for HSOB; six-wicket bag to Horouta's Sandhu.