\u201cHe brought a wealth of skills and talent, an infectious enthusiasm and an extraordinary work ethic. Above all, he brought a genuine passion for making our club better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a smile on his face, there always seemed to be another idea, another project or opportunity that Hayden was excited about. <\/p>\n
\u201cHayden could often be found working on a project, practising or playing, or walking his dog around the course \u2013 stopping to fill divots with sand. He was always thinking about how things could be improved and, more importantly, how we could turn those ideas into reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cHayden had a bold vision for the Poverty Bay Golf Club: to make it the best provincial golf club in New Zealand – a place you never want to leave. He believed in that vision wholeheartedly, and he inspired others to believe in it, too. His sudden passing is an immense loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keastie, a talented Poverty representative cricketer and footballer in his time, was also a force with club in hand … \u201cKeast Mode\u201d as he was described when in full flight.<\/p>\n
Last year he made his national interprovincial debut for Tair\u0101whiti and wrote his name into local sporting history with his half against Waikato \u2013 that gritty effort saving the province from six 5-0 whitewashes over a brutal week.<\/p>\n
Keastie loved it. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe came together as a team, enjoyed each other\u2019s company – that\u2019s the cool thing about it,\u201d he said, adding that he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d do it again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to keep going, keep improving …\u201d<\/p>\n
He also played a pivotal role alongside close friend Reece Witters in Poverty Bay\u2019s interclub pennants campaigns \u2013 a brotherhood of likeminded players, which gave rise to the \u201cLinksmen\u201d.<\/p>\n
A Facebook message on August 28 underlined the passion he had for the Poverty Bay Open and his club. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve probably seen this already,\u201d he wrote. \u201cReally cool feature of the POB [Poverty Bay Open] entrants this year being dads and teenage sons. Bloody proud of this and speaks to the culture around the event\/club …\u201d<\/p>\n
The life of Keastie will be celebrated at the House of Breakthrough from 1.30pm on Thursday. He will be laid to rest at Taruheru Cemetery. <\/p>\n
A Linksman to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe brought a wealth of skills and talent, an infectious enthusiasm and an extraordinary work ethic. Above all,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5195,15980,37235,12506,63787,303583,303582,111,139,69,213,28050,61],"class_list":["post-616198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-be","tag-fallen","tag-farewelled","tag-gisborne","tag-hayden","tag-keast","tag-linksman","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-thursday","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}