National Championships Tournament 2025 Results

38th Left-handed National Golf Championships 2025 Prize-winners

Above: Winning Team Australia holding the Fenemor Cup. Overall Team New Zealand were a action of a point behind to come runners-up allowing them to have “Bragging Rights” Peter Nolan on the Mic.

First time Lefthanded National Championship participant Melodie Otley (right) of Napier, won the Askew Trophy for Women’s Best Stableford, 135 pts.

Left: Richard Hodge of Eketahuna
won the John Barber Trophy for
Best One Round Nett of 65.

Left -right:
Husband and wife team from Australia were amongst the winners at the Lefthanded
National Golf Championships hosted by the Napier Golf Club, Hawkes Bay, NZ.
Diane Wolfe who won the Keith Plier Trophy for the Women’s Best Gross, 362.
Danny Wolfe won the Men’s Seniors – Overall Barry Turner Trophy for the Best Nett of 286,
and the Tom Armstrong Trophy for the Men’s Senior Best Nett over Last 2 rounds, 140.
Tournament Convenor, Annette Purves presented the trophies to them.

Above: Greg Limond of Whitford Park won
the Seniors – Overall Men’s Gross of 339. He
is pictured (left) holding the Rei Thompson
Trophy with Tournament Convenor.

Above: Thais Theis (right) from Waitikiri
won the Bob Harrington Trophy for
Women’s Best Nett, 303.

Left: Wayne Hughes of Napier won the Lionel Kelly Trophy in the Open - Overall Men’s Best Nett over Last 2 Rounds, 137. Wayne ALSO won the Bob Charles Trophy for the Open -
Overall Men’s Best Nett of 284.

Above: District Team consisting of Ken Shea, Dave Seager, Tony Stowers and Jamie Lock from the District of Waikato, won the Kakapo Trophy with 897 Nett.

Annette Purves with the table display of trophies

Left: Scott Steward of Napier won the Nigel Osborne Trophy for
the Best One Round Gross of 73.

Above: Gary Pellet of Awapuni Links was the winner of the Life Members Trophy for the Super Seniors Men’s Best Nett.

Andrew Fenemor receiving the Life Membership Award for services to the Left-Handers Association

Ken Shea the overall winner of the senior Gross with a 4 round score of 310

Congratulations to the thirty-six winners, some of whom won multiple times.

The 38th National Left-Handed Golf Championships hosted by Napier Golf Club, Waiohiki.
Leading up to the Golf Championship, the greenkeepers worked tirelessly to get the golf course in pristine tournament condition. It revealed itself throughout the four days of golf. Narrow fairway entries into the greens, thick lush green rough, medium to fast-paced putting greens with testing sloping hole placements and almost every hole had a dogleg to contend with. The daily results showed who was struggling and who managed the testing condition of the course.
This event, after all, is a National Golf Championship to evaluate all abilities, and the Napier Golf Club provided the challenge from Monday the 7th to Thursday the 10th of April 2025.
REGISTRATIONS
Registrations opened between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm on Sunday, April 6. Players reported upstairs in the main clubhouse, welcomed by the tournament committee. There were some latecomers, a family bereavement, and a couple of withdrawals due to Achilles injuries, giving us a total of 88 registered players.
They received a programme, tournament shirt (if ordered prior), event lanyard (shown below left) for the player and badge for their partner, a goodie bag full of Hawkes Bay fruit and a bottle of water to wash it all down. Their pre-paid Monster Raffle numbers (prizes shown above were chosen from the 300 numbers available.

HOLE IN ONE
Congratulations to Andrew Rigby of Napier (pictured left), who hit the perfect tee shot on the difficult 15th hole to score an ace. It is Andrew’s first Hole-in-One.
PRACTICE ROUND
Sunday was the official practice day, with all facilities open and available to use. Prior bookings were needed to make a booking. Unfortunately, there were insufficient golf carts available for all our players who had booked and paid for a golf cart. The committee was caught off guard with the number of golf carts requested, as the Club only had a limited number of carts available, also, there was insufficient room to store any extra golf carts which would need their batteries charged. This led to 98% of booked carts being shared. We did our best to accommodate most players, as the pairings with golf carts were determined by the daily draws. We wanted everyone to play with someone different every day.
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND AGM
The official tournament welcome took place at 5.30 pm on Sunday, April 6th, introduced by the Men’s Club Captain, who stood in for the Club President. He spoke about the two years of recovery from cyclone Gabrielle, which was undertaken by over 200 volunteers, sometimes daily.
There were photos displayed for those who were interested to compare how far the club had come. The Napier Golf Club received an Award from Golf NZ as “Club of the Year” for 2023/24 and a “Top 100 Favourite Golf Course in the World for 2025” from Golf Digest. A tribute to their tenacity in their cyclone recovery. After the welcome, food and drinks were served, followed by the NALG AGM and Special General Meeting.
GOLF GENIUS SCORECARDS
All Rounds began at 8.20 am from the 1st and 10th tees. Players reported to the (little black box) Tournament Starters Office before their tee time. Scorecards were presented on the tee. This tournament was run by Golf Genius and the printed scorecards were different. This caught players off guard, and it proved to be problematic as the completed cards showed when handed in. Some were shocking: numbers got mixed up with player and marker, we couldn’t read some numbers, there were scribbled out numbers, the marker didn’t write in their name, plus many other peculiarities. This scorecard was something new for many of our players.

TOURNAMENT RESULTS OPEN -OVERALL TROPHY WINNER& SCORE

Men’s GROSS: - Bruce Poole Trophy: - Ken Shea 310
Men’s GROSS R/Up : - Mark Anderson 311
Men’s NETT Bob Charles Trophy: - Wayne Hughes 284
Men’s NETT R/up: - Andrew Davis 291
Men’s Best Nett Last 2 Rounds Lionel Kelly Trophy: - Wayne Hughes 137

SENIORS-OVERALL
Men’s GROSS Rei Thompson Trophy: - Greg Limond 339
Men’s GROSS R/Up: - Bill Steel 342
Men’s NETT: - Barry Turner Trophy: - Danny Wolfe 286
Men’s NETT R/up:- Malcolm Fraser 291
Men’s Best Nett Last 2 Rounds Tom Armstrong Trophy: - Danny Wolfe 140

SUPER SENIORS-MALE OR FEMALE
Best NETT Life Members Trophy: - Gary Pellett
NETT R/up: - Brian Peters

WOMEN -WILLOWS FLIGHT
Best GROSS: - Keith Plier Trophy Diane Wolfe 362
Best NETT: - Bob Harrington Trophy Thais Theis 303
Best STABLEFORD: - Askew Trophy Melodie Otley 135

MIXED -MALE OR FEMALE
Best One Round GROSS: - Nigel Osborne Trophy Scott Steward 73

Best One Round NETT: - John Barber Trophy Richard Hodge 65

NETT PRIZES-REST OF FIELD
OPEN 1-KURUPO FLIGHT
  Nett: - 1st Patrick Pilz 295: 2nd David Seager 297: 3rd Richard Hodge 298: 4thIan Bartlett 303

OPEN 2-TAREHA FLIGHT
Nett: - 1st Andrew Fenemor 297: 2nd Jamie Lock 301: 3rd Barry Mathews 311: 4th John Dalton 314

OPEN 3-WAIOHIKI FLIGHT
  Nett: - 1st Dave Morrison 302: 2nd Wallace Miller 303: 3rd Steve Blunsden 326; 4th Grant Dalton 327

SENIORS 1-OASIS FLIGHT
Nett: - 1st Vijay Goundan 310: 2nd Peter Christensen 310:  3rd Cec Bailey 312: 4th John Thurgood 319

SENIORS 2-TERRACE FLIGHT
Nett: - 1st Owen Young 304: 2nd Nigel Messenger 309: 3rd John Alexander 310: 4th Alex Walters 313

SENIORS 3-RIDGE FLIGHT
Nett: - 1st David O'Neill 313: 2ndGraeme Aitken 315: 3rd Peter Nolan 315:  4th Rodney Mischewski 323

TEAMS CHALLENGES
District Team of4 Players-Nett Kakapo Trophy: -Waikato (897) Ken Shea, Dave Seager, Tony Stowers, Jamie Lock

Club Team of4 Players-Best3 of 4 Nett Schweppes Trophy: - Napier 2 (877) Wayne Hughes, Annette Purves, Melody Otley, James Guilford
Australia v New Zealand Fenemor Trophy Winners; - Australia

Annette Purves
38th Lefthanded
National Golf Championship Tournament Convenor

Wayne Hughes
Tournament Committee NALG Hawkes Bay Councillor
12 April 2025