Manaia’s Ethan Jones takes top spot in Mitre 10 golf tournament

A field of 172 men and women competed in the annual Mitre 10 Mega

3 day tournament at the end of last month.

In the Senior Men’s division Manaia’s Ethan Jones won the gross with a 3 round total of 215.

Jones started on day one with a

1 over par 73 at Westown and a 5 over par 76 at New Plymouth on day 2 before saving his best round until last shooting a 2 under par 66 at Inglewood which included birdieing 4 of the last 5 holes to finish 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Damien Powell (New Plymouth)

75-71-71-217.

The senior net was taken out by Westown golfer, Craig Ramage

73-68-64-205 with John Parkes (New Plymouth) 69-70-67-206 2nd.

The best gross in the Intermediate division came from Westown’s Tony Burn 85-83-87-245 with Trevor Schrider (Inglewood) 84-87-75-246 one stroke behind in 2nd.

Max Maaka (Westown) 71-68-67-206 finished in 1st place in the net with Ian Colson (Inglewood) 72-70-69-211 finishing in 2nd place.

The Junior Gross was won by Inglewood’s John Moore

90-88-79-257 ahead of Ian Cooper (New Plymouth) 86-87-85-258, with fellow Inglewood golfer Gary Crawford 73-62-64-199 winning the net prize with Fitzroy’s Joel Earley

67-66-68-201 in 2nd spot.

In the Women’s division Te Ngutu’s Anne Braithwaite

91-78-68-237 bounced back from a horror start at Westown to comfortably win the gross by 16 strokes from Palmerston North golfer Kay White 88-84-81-253. 1st net went to Westown’s Shone Lee 70-74-59-203 with Urenui’s Michele Grant 72-69-65-205 in 2nd spot.

Three Taranaki Golfers have made the journey north to Hamilton to play in the North Island Age Group Championships.

Josh Morris, Monte Burmester and Max Shearer are amongst a field of 113 boys playing at St Andrews golf club over 3 rounds.