mrbojumbles

Those who’ve never played Poverty Bay Golf Course are missing out. Yes I’m slightly bias about my home track, but who’s not? Perched next to Gisborne’s Midway beach, Poverty Bay is a stunning small town golf course that I constantly get bantered about for bringing up. Most of the cheap shot arise purely from the word ‘Poverty’ – I’m sure of it. But when Captain Jimbo Cook rocked up to Gisy in in 1769 and named it ‘Poverty Bay’, he could have easily sailed further down the country and found Wellington first, and they too would have been labeled poor. I think it’s fair to say that any place in the Aotearoa at that point in time had little more than land and women to trade with the honkies, but I digress.

Last November at the Aussie Masters in Melbourne I was fortunate to meet a childhood hero of mine – Stuart Appleby. Apples not only confirmed his coolness by asking the gallery to “shuffle back a whisker” when he needed some space to play a shot, but when i got to have a chat to him he recalled playing at Poverty Bay way back in 1991 and called it ‘Beautiful’ – music to my Poverty Bay / Stuart Appleby loving ears. Here Stuart’s comments with the audio player below…

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Apples remembered how he loved the course so much that he shat him self over the beauty. Perhaps he’s not the first to keep his regularity in check about the stunning Awapuni Links, but he’s sure the first and only to do it during a New Zealand Amateur while carding a course record 66 – Unbelievable stuff!!! (Scorecard below)

Stuart Appleby – A mrbojumbles legend.

The quickest way off the course is to play the least shots possible