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Awapuni Links head greenkeeper top qualifies at Poverty Bay golf open in Gisborne

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William Brown tees off the par-3 10th in the opening qualifying round of the Emerre & Hathaway Poverty Bay Open on the Awapuni Links course. Head greenkeeper and three-time PB Open champion Brown shot 68, 74 to earn the No 1 seeding for the championship 16 matchplay. Photos / Chris Taewa

No one knows the Awapuni Links course better than head greenkeeper William Brown.

And it was his local knowledge that no doubt played a part as he shot a sort-of course record in top qualifying on day 1 of the Emerre & Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open yesterday.

Brown (a member of Poverty Bay, Waikohu and Te Puia Hot Springs), chasing a fourth Open crown to go with his 2012, 2020 and 2022 t...

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