2008 Auckland Disc Golf Championships
 

2008 Auckland Disc Golf Championships

6/7 September 2008
Monte Cecilia Park, Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand

Three days ahead of the weekend and for the first time in weeks, probably months the television weather map shows a big ‘H’ coming off the east coast of Australia and heading our way, fingers are crossed it will sit over us for the weekend. After weeks of wet winter weather the Disc Golf gods are on our side, fine weather!

32 players turned up for the 2008 Auckland Champs held once again in the beautiful Monte Cecilia Park.

For the two opening rounds on the Saturday the breeze was from the southwest, which means for Monte all but a couple of holes are protected from the wind on the nor-eastern side of the hill.  On the Sunday it was a totally different golf game with the stiff breeze coming from the northeast so pretty much every hole was wind affected.

After missing the previous two Auckland Champs, Simon Feasey just back from World’s in Kalamazoo was going to be the man to beat. For the women it was their chance to take on Ming Menzies who had also just got back from attaining the fantastic result of second place in the Am GM Woman’s division at the World Championships.

After the opening round Simon had a 1 shot lead over the GM with Mario Cerniar from Christchurch, local golfer Damian Peters and Ultimate convert Jo ‘Fish’ Seebeck another 3 shots back. In the Woman’s division Ming was showing her class, it was evident the race for Jenny, Alice and Robyn was going to be for silver.

After the first of the seeded rounds Simon had increased his lead over the GM to 3 shots with Damian 8 shots off the pace 1 ahead of Marty deHaas who was starting to hit his straps.

Sunday morning and the stiff breeze is from the N/E which was as good as playing on a whole new course, as the cards come in Simon has increased his lead to 5 shots with the GM and Marty now tied for second, they would be joined in the ‘Super 6’ final by Jo ‘Fish’ Seebeck, Mario Cerniar and Damian Peters.

After a hot pizza lunch the crowd follow the ‘Super 6’ contenders to the 18th tee, with the now strong north-easterly pumping up the course it was going to be hard to impress the gallery. Hole 1 and Simon makes an impressive birdie to nab another 2 shots on the super 6 as both Marty and the GM Bogey. Hole 2 and he’s at it again, another birdie and another shot up. Hole 3 was an extended version of hole 1 and this time most of the super 6 par but Simon bogeys [he’s human]. Super 6 hole 4 was number 2 on the course and some drama unfolded with Marty shooting a birdie, Simon a bogey and the GM catching his bogy putt as it bounced off the basket and straight back at him from just a metre away. Good to see his reflex reactions are still working but a bit embarrassing. The TD had to penalise himself 2 shots for interfering with his shot. Ops!  Hole 5 saw Marty’s confidence grow as he’d just gained a 5 shot buffer on third as he hit an amazing 12 metre down hill putt. Hole 6 of the Super 6 was the 221 metre signature hole 10 ‘The Full Monte’, but with the strong wind blowing straight up the fairway once again it was hard to impress the gallery.

Congratulations to Simon Feasey who took the Open Auckland title with a tournament total of 180, second equal was Jo Seebeck tied with Mario Cerniar on 192; Martin deHaas took out the Masters on 184 followed by the defending champ Barry Keene and Nigel Hailstone. The Grand Masters Trophy will have Bob GM Gentil’s name on it for the third year in a row, followed by Waiheke’s Paul Cohen, the Woman’s title went to Ming Menzies who played some beautiful golf with Robyn and Alley picking up silver and bronze. Jenny Joynt took out the Woman’s Grand Masters and the best Rookie finisher was Nathan Moore. In the unofficial locals only Saturday competition Conrad Hoskins pulled off a PB to take the rubber chicken, picking up the closest to the pin comp on hole 1 in the process, it was great to have you guys taking part.

Now as I sit and write on the Monday morning it’s dumping down again outside .. how lucky were we?

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Mike Corbett in front of the amazing Parr Homestead overlooking the beautiful Monte Cecilia Park.

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Fish putts out on hole #6 ‘Visiting Paddy’.

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Jack Turner sends one at the chains on hole #9, as playing partners Mike Corbett and Robyn Joynt look on.

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Buzz, Andrew and Ming Menzies. Ming is just back from attaining second place in the Am. Woman’s Grand Masters at Worlds.

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Tauranga’s Andrew Taylor doing a spot of search and rescue in one of the disc catching Norfolk Pines.

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Christchurch Disc Golfer Mario Cerniar plays out #6.

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Spring had well and truly sprung in the stunning Monte Cecilia Park.

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Local golfer Damien Peters putts out hole #2.

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The par 4 hole 7 caused some problems, especially on the Sunday when the wind came up.

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Eventual Open Winner Simon Feasey plays out hole 11 framed by the beautiful Pohutukawa tree.

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Masters winner Marty deHaas putts with confidence on hole #9.

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Mario Cerniar skips his shot off the top of the basket on the first of the ‘Super 6’ holes.

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New Zealand’s top Disc Golfer Simon Feasey putts at the on the edge hole 9.

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Three time Junior winner Toby Gentil (10) all concentration as he plays out hole 17.

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Mario Cerniar sending a solid putt into the centre of the chains only to be rejected by a gust of wind.

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Damien Peters takes a run at number 9.

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The GM plays out #18 under the gaze of Parr Homestead.

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Marty de Haas putting in the full effort on his way to picking up the Auckland Masters Trophy for the second time.

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Ming, Nathan, Justin and Chris take some time out to watch another group play the 221metre Full Monte.

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The GM putts out for par on the second of the ‘Super 6’ holes.

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2008 Auckland Disc Golf Championships Results

Name

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Total

Top 6

Grand Total

Simon Feasey
51
52
56
159
21
180
Martin deHaas
58
54
52
164
20
184
Bob Gentil
52
54
58
164
25
189
Jo 'Fish' Seebeck
55
59
57
171
21
192
Mario Cernial
55
59
58
172
20
192
Damian Peters
55
56
62
173
23
196
Siep Van Vliet
59
54
61
174
174
Barry Baz Keene
56
58
61
175
175
Jack Turner
61
55
59
175
175
Mike Corbett
58
62
55
175
175
Nigel Hailstone
58
56
62
176
176
Josh Smith
61
60
58
179
179
Jimmy Conway
59
60
61
180
180
 
60
61
59
180
180
Paul Cohen
60
56
65
181
181
Keith 'Woody' Inwood
59
61
63
183
183
Tim Germann
62
57
66
185
185
Andrew Taylor
70
56
61
187
187
Sherif Ibrahim
61
63
64
188
188
Martin Galley
65
64
66
195
195
Fiona 'Ming' Menzies
67
63
65
195
195
Chris Ambler
65
65
68
198
198
Nathan Moore
68
60
71
199
199
Justin Cash
60
68
71
199
199
Robyn Joynt
76
74
82
232
232
Jenny Joynt
78
79
80
237
237
Alice Joynt
77
86
76
239
239
Conrad Hoskins
62
57
130
249
249
George Huhu
62
67
130
259
259
Toby Gentil
130
69
80
279
279
Duncan Patterson
78
82
130
290
290
Brendon Love
61
130
130
321
321

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