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Queenstown Trip Results 2025

Queenstown Trip March 2025

Thirty lucky Nomads descended on Queenstown on the 27th and 28th of March. We had four from Australia and one from Zimbabwe to make it an International competition. The New Zealander’s were broken into 2 groups, Kiwis and Internationals. You easily became an international player if you regularly travelled overseas.

Day One – Queenstown Golf Club

We arrived at Queenstown Golf Club (formerly Kelvin Heights) with perfect weather, no breeze and superbly fast greens. Nomads have not played her for around 10 years so this was the first time not playing Arrowtown. Everyone enjoyed the course and agreed it was well worth including in the trip.

Results for Queenstown Golf Club

Winner – Ian Braddock 37 points

Runner Up – Wayne Scholtz 35 points

Kiwis – 4; Internationals – 4

Average Score 31.3 points

After golf we had our opening dinner at The Queenstown Golf Club. The team at the QGC did a great job with the menu and the service. Our two Captains Jeff Meltzer for the Kiwis and David Hodge for the Internationals spent some time entertaining us.

Day Two – Millbrook Remarkables Course

Another perfect day 23 degrees, no wind and a well-prepared course following on from the NZ Open. We had a later tee off time at 12 noon so there was plenty of time to explore Queenstown in the morning before golf or arrive early and warm up.

Results for Remarkables

Winner – Mark Rodger 36 points (on a countback)

Runner Up – Peter Griffiths 36 points

Overall after 2 days: Kiwis – 6; Internationals – 8

Average Score 30.8 after average 1.1 points adjustment = Ave 29.7

Day Three – Millbrook Coronet Course

Another stunning Queenstown day, almost no wind and back to Millbrook again for the new Coronet course

Results for Coronet

Winner – Fortune Gonah 38 points (on a countback)

Runner Up – Paul Hurtley 38 points

Overall after 3 days: Kiwis – 12; Internationals – 15

Average Score 27.6 after average 2.4 points adjustment = Ave 25.1

While the weather was great the course was still difficult with plenty of Irish drops being played.

Final Night Dinner

After Coronet we met at Tanoshi a Japanese restaurant in the centre of Queenstown for the final night and ceremony of the Kiwis handing over the trophy to the Internationals.

This was a very casual restaurant in the middle of Queenstown. We had booked the restaurant for exclusive use, and we filled every seat in it including chairs at the bar. It was a fitting place for our prizegiving dinner that went on late into the night especially once the Sake arrived.

Jeff Melzer Kiwi Captain handing over the trophy to David Hodge International Captain. Well played by the Internationals.

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Day Four – Jacks Point

An early tee off at 8am saw us arriving in the dark at 7.30am for another magnificent Queenstown day. We had a multi tee start and fortunately it was not as cold as it has been and no wind. The course was in great conditions and the greens were running fast. A green field with mountains in the background AI-generated content may be incorrect.

Results for Jacks Point

Winner – Phil Stickland 37 points

Runner Up – Ken Buck 36 points

Average Score 27.6 using normal DotGolf handicaps

Over lunch at Jack’s Point the overall results were announced. Lucky Adamou and John Philpott were both equal on 136 points. According to the Nomad’s bye-laws all competition draws will be decided by lot so we asked the proshop to draw one of the two cards as winner. Lucky Adamou who was the winner last year was crowned this year’s winner.

Queenstown 2025 Scoring Sheet QGC Remarkables Coronet Jacks Total
1 Lucky Adamou Int 33 33 36 34 136
2 John Philpott Kiwi 34 32 35 35 136
3 Ken Buck Int 31 34 34 36 135
4 Phil Stickland Int 29 32 35 37 133
5 Van Zyl Meyer Int 34 35 32 31 132
6 Peter Buck Kiwi 33 34 35 28 130
7 Johan Hugo Int 29 28 37 33 127
8 Wayne Scholtz Int 35 32 30 30 127
9 Paul Hurtley Kiwi 31 29 38 29 127
10 Peter Griffiths Kiwi 29 36 33 29 127
11 Bruce Aitken Int 35 35 28 29 127
12 Peter Cotton Kiwi 31 30 33 32 126
13 Ian Braddock Kiwi 37 28 32 29 126
14 Roger Sumich Kiwi 30 34 29 30 123
15 Mike Carajannis Kiwi 35 31 27 29 122
16 Mark Rodger Int 30 36 30 26 122
17 Richard Garland Kiwi 30 30 28 32 120
18 Rob Rich Int 30 31 27 32 120
19 Johannes Greyling Int 35 27 33 25 120
20 David Hodge Int 31 32 34 22 119
21 Mark Van Den Anker Kiwi 35 28 31 24 118
22 Glenn Wilson Kiwi 34 34 29 20 117
23 Jeff Meltzer Kiwi 26 32 31 27 116
24 Bruce Jacobi Kiwi 31 32 32 19 114
25 Fortune Gonah Int 24 30 38 21 113
26 Noel Vaughan Kiwi 32 34 30 15 111
27 Michael Georgiades Int 35 27 26 20 108
28 Ray Parson Int 27 24 32 24 107
29 Philip de wet Int 30 24 22 28 104
30 David Bell Kiwi 23 21 27 22 93

The Hills

Most people departed home after lunch at Jack’s but thanks to a very kind invitation from Ken Buck a few stayed over for a game at The Hills the following day.

We met there for breakfast and had a very enjoyable round of golf followed by lunch and then to the airport. The Hills was as immaculate as ever with a few new pieces of art. As the NZ Open was not played there this year the rough was much shorter than we have experienced in the past and it was relatively easy to find your ball and play from the rough.

Peter Griffiths at 1.93M (6ft 3in) beside the newest art in front of the clubhouse.

See you all next year in Queenstown.

 

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