GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS ON SMGD COURSES:
At Close House – Colt Course. Sept 2017. A prestigious European Tour Championship hosted by Lee Westwood.
Broadcast worldwide from Royal Wellington Golf Club, NZ. October 2017. WOW!
The legacy continues.
Co-hosted at the award-winning Millbrook Resort near Queenstown, NZ. 2014 – 2023.
Millbrook Golf Resort
| Location | Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Year Started | 2008, 2018 |
| Status | First nine holes opened February 2010. Second nine opened in 2021. The new 18 hole course named as the Coronet Course. |
| Project Brief | Design brief was to design new course and renovation of existing 18 hole course. |
MILLBROOK RESORT WINS DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Presented by Golf Inc. in the USA, and announced in May 2023, the new Coronet Course at Millbrook has won this international award for Development of the Year in the Resort/Daily fee category.
SMGD is honoured to work with the Resort and delighted that, along with being the host course for the New Zealand Open, it has won this award for the design of the course and its environmental initiatives.
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AWARDS
Winner
Excellence in Compliance Award
Royal Wellington Golf Club
Scott awarded by GEO as a Sustainable Golf Champion
PUBLICATIONS
St Andrews
The Evolution of the Old Course
by Scott Macpherson
Golf's Royal Clubs
by Scott Macpherson
TESTIMONIALS
"RWGC set out to build the best club golf course in New Zealand and to be one that golfers from all around the world will travel to play. We are confident that ambition is being realized."
Peter Cutfield, Chairman, Royal Wellington Golf Club, NZ