The Best Golf Course in New Zealand! Millbrook Resort

The Best Golf Course in New Zealand! Millbrook Resort

Choppers, this is Milbrook Resort, home of the 20125 New Zealand [Music] Open. This quite possibly could be the best golf course I’ve ever seen. [Music] And today, Ron has found his golf game. Oh, yeah. It’s a chilly one. 3° here at Milbrook. Yeah. But the sun’s peeking through the mountains over there. I can see that. Uh heading to the coronet side. This is where they had the New Zealand open. Not this side, but this is a peaky one. still hasn’t rang me to thank me. Incredible. I’m going to steal a segment from Ricky Shields, my mate. Prediction. Um, I reckon you’ll shoot even. I wanted even. Um, oh, thanks, guys. Screw it. 70. Oh, Chris, what am I having? What are you shooting today? Yeah. On the range? 68. 68 on the range. Four under, man. No. Come on. Right. My prediction. Two over. Right. First hole. 383 m par 4. Black T’s. Blue T’s. Black T’s. Got to go black, don’t we? Reds look good. I think I go out to the right there. But you can go left. Little split fairway. Don’t mind that. I encourage that. There’s a car coming. Did you hear that? We’re fine. Safe. I just heard that car coming. I rushed it. All good. Oh, so that hill there, that’s the snow mountain. So during winter Oh, yeah. That’s the ski lift up to the top. You wouldn’t think it though. It’s like It’s a massive mountain. I’m just Oh, no. Please keep cart out of the way. Reverse out. All right. Oh, your coffee scr a little bit as well. Sorry. Oh, mate. Honestly, 135 n cold weather, no wind, slow swing. I was hitting it beautifully on the range cuz I could only do this. Got to remember to do that now. Oh, short. Damn, that was all over it, too. Shot, mate. Well done. Oh, good. That length. Just I should just put it there for par every hole. Oh, I thought I got it. Bogey and we start. Can’t bogey mole if you don’t bogey the first. Pretty standard start there. Shot mate. Little bit left. Little bit short. Not right there. A little bit miss. Perfect. Confidence sky high. So 12th hole is something that we need to look out for. 12th hole the highest point of any golf course in New Zealand. In New Zealand 127 m par three. Very nice. Slightly down the hill. Looks like long. You can’t go. Positive pin high. This holy one, mate. Holy one. All right. Why didn’t you tell me that earlier? 124 pitchy. Come on. Come on. Up. I am over this. I got the green. All right. Birdie putt. Nice pokey. Oh, mate. Hey. No, no, no. Come on. There you go. That is so much nicer doing that. Great par, mate. Thank you. 120 m parath. Well done. Thanks, man. Subscribe. 445 m par five driver in play, please. All right. Hope over that hill is really good. Yes. Good. All right. It’s going to get that bogey out of your system. Never never birdie the first or parrot. It’s so cool hitting shots where like you see the ball rise into the mount. Do you think you’d ever get over it? No. Just you know the shot trace is almost redundant at this point. Yeah. That was a good shot. That’s probably one of your better drives. Yeah. Just I got to just What are you thinking right now? So you’re two holes in. You’ve played okay like but at this point where’s your head at mentally for the remaining 16 holes? I don’t know like you still I reckon the first five six holes you’re like how am I hitting it? Is it a good day bad day? You need like a good one here and you’re like okay this is and you start to like build on it. So you Yeah. Okay. So you break it down in sections I guess. Yeah. If you were actually decent at golf, you’d probably just do three hole stretches where you’re like, “Okay, these three holes play under bar and you start again.” Yeah. If you could make your mental do that. I can’t. I remember what happened yesterday off. We don’t swear on your channel, mate. Is that a sweat? Oh, he done it again. 165 7 cut. It’s gone left a bit. Oh, there’s a club just pulled it. But we’re dancing. Oh, that was That’s pretty cool into the mountain, isn’t it? Very nice, mate. How are we going to play golf courses when we get back home? We will. Okay. Bit more of that. Thanks. Oh, I’m not on the Okay, this scaring the flag stick again. Just like the last hole. Good pace control. That’s what we’re thinking about today. Pace control. Pace control. Oh. Kick out. Keep going. Kick on. Keep going. Keep going. Uhoh. It’s actually bad. It’s really bad. I That’s turning into a problem. Sorry. Three parts. Oh, I just want to I just want to cry. Like, it’s not hard. No more pencil. giving it up. Well, what what’s what’s the worst that’s going to happen? It worked for like two rounds. Yeah. In a different country. Can’t do pencil in New Zealand. Yeah. Maybe go New Zealand. Um uh uh finger lock. The Kiwi finger lock. Yeah. Okay. 308 par 4. Going to hit Carol down the guts. I’m pretty angry. Look where we are, mate. Oh, I know. It’s killing it, though. New grip, new me. Y, it’s down the gut. A bit towy, but we’ll take that. Big bounces. Big bounces. That’ll do. Pretty excited for the uh New Zealand finger lock grip. Kiwi finger. Key. Sorry, Kiwi. Kiwi finger lock. So, put a grip change. I’ve got to. Yeah. Have you thought about going left-handed? It’s not that bad. Oh, just trying to have a joke with you. Ron’s funny. Not today. Perfect day, though. No excuses. Ability. That’s a couple of threeps on the trip, isn’t it? Yeah. First one wasn’t on the ground. Two. Yeah. Oh. You want to go with that? I’m going with that. 74 to the flag. Come on. Oh, I’m a bit pushy. Oh dear. Did I zap the right thing? Oh, we’ll go and find out. May have zapped the wrong thing in way short of I didn’t hit bad. Well done. One job. All right. Short game. Cool. Would you like to play? I’ll take over if you want. Far out. Wrong club. That was not the club for that shot either. I’m a bit of shambles here. Hug. That’s That’s a couple of errors there. Wrong club, wrong zapage. Two over. Plenty of time. Plenty of time to to get it back. Get it back. That was a brain fade that hole there. There was a um a steak. I reckon you got I got the steak. You got the steak. What 20 m short of it? 75 m and I hit a 54 and I was 30 short. No good. Okay. And then the chip. That’s a chip and rum with something, not a sandwiched. Switch on, Ronald. A there’s paragliders coming down the mountain and everything. Oh, that’s cool. They’ve done their job. Hole five, 459 m par 4. Shilong, right? Positive. New grip. We was at the flag. We’ll take the right clubs. Stuff you learn when you’re a junior. All right. I’ve hit it. Okay. Oh, okay. Bounced over that. I think we’re all right. Positive. Positive. Positive. Happy. Could be doing worse things. Yeah. Could be ruining someone else’s swing. Wow. 190 to go. This is a tough hole. 190 thick rough. I reckon I can go over that hill and it might roll all the way down. Short maybe front edge. Okay. Something just nice and close. Pretty good. All these holes are like So you’re hitting uphill and then it looks like it goes like that after. Here we go, boys. Wrong grip. Well done, mate. Thank you. All I need. But that was probably the closer of them. Yeah, I know. But I’m just saying like just do that again. Yeah, straight up go. No more worrying about it. Just up. But you actually just walked up and hit that so quickly. We were still talking. Like we didn’t even realize you got ready for me to go through my emotional breakdown before I hit it. Yeah. So, you just hurry up and hit. Y easy. Come on. Let’s get positive. Let’s get some birdies. That’s what people come to see. They turn into Ron cuz they want to see just 65s and 65s. What about the background? Someone might be new to the channel. Oh yeah. If you’re new to the channel, sorry. Actually, in fact, if you’re new to the channel, hit subscribe. Would you? Yeah. You want to see more of this? Yeah. Every time no one subscribes, we threep. So, you’ve been a couple. Got to hit subscribe. Oh, wow. Wow. Heck is that, Joel? What a path three. What is it? One 169. Wow. Very cool. 175 pin looks back going through like a chute. Very cool. Very cool. Thinn it into the rock wall. Kick off the rock wall. Green. Oh, good. Oh, I didn’t hit a 12 ft. I hit that here. I just had a lash. Got to get me slow swing I had on the range. How’s your coffee? It’s good. Yeah. How’s your mental health? Better. It’s that par four broke me at that par five and then I did a silly mistake next hole that just doubled down on you. But lot of time to get it right. Hey, one question for you. Yep. Does it slightly irk you when you tee off on the back nine first? No. Doesn’t Doesn’t affect you whatsoever? No. Really? No. You don’t like it? Gets me, man. I I feel like nothing can go right cuz you back just everything. It’s like you’ve started in the middle. Yeah. Not a That’s just my opinion. Did he hit the wall? He got the wall. I got the wall. Yeah. I was never going to chip it that close, was I? Don’t let anyone from Melbourne tell you can’t part from off of grain. There’s an echo. I reckon if you saw it, you would have gone, “Oh, that’s a chip.” That bang. Just no more thinking. All right, that’s right for you. That’s pretty much just been this channel from birth. Started thinking no good. All right, two pars. Here we go. I’ve just realized this whole time. CL Ken’s been playing. Oh, wow. Feels like you’re in um Yeah, like uh a desert course with the rocks like that. Par 4 370. Ricky positive. No thinking. Oh, that’s the best of the trip. Whoa. Yes. Good. I’m trending. Jacket’s going to have to come off. I’m warming up. Yeah, you’re playing well. I’m getting there. Couple of pars. Just like you know at the start of the game like you you’re standing play well. You can’t force it. You just like get into it and then but all like just back yourself in. Bit of ticker there. Yeah. Putting’s just starting just back to normal. No silly stuff, you know. Seven iron off the quarry wall is always the play. Yeah. Big fan. This is up there. E. Yeah. Like Arrowtown amazing. Queenstown amazing jacks like different version of the same hill. Yeah, but pretty good. Yeah, this is the the the most open, widest, less less um trees and it’s just a completely different look to everywhere we’ve been. Early morning game if you’re playing cuz it is Y. Come on. This is where you bounce back right here. That’s a low one. We that went pretty high on upside. Oh man, I saw that going in too. This New Zealand cross-anded pencil grip. What do you call it? The Kiwi finger lock. Kiwi finger lock. I can feel like I can get it like get the right pace which is what I have not done for three days. No. All right. Two over. Is this up there for you? Golf courses very much so. Yep. Top three. Yep. Yep. I was just saying I reckon my list now goes Milbrook Bonville Jacks. That would be me top three. You gravy is up there. He’s up there. I really like Jack. I like Link. Oh, you like Link? If we play jacks without that wind, it probably would have gone if I didn’t shoot 180. Uh, there’s a thing I do when I’m filming where I put you on one/3 and I put the hole on another third. Mhm. When I do it, you always drain the pot. When I was lining that up, I didn’t get in the right spot and you were just off by like the tiniest bit. So, when it’s possible again, I’ll do it again. Okay. And you’ll drain it. Can you do it every hole? [ __ ] Uh, 364 me par4 bunker right in the middle of the fairway. Got me name all over it. Aim at it. Yeah, I’ll miss it. Oh, a bit hilly, but I think that’s okay. That’s I don’t mind the fades. Yep. Lou and Healey. Good to go. 129. So I’m zapping things like four times. Okay. 129. Tend to pull me. Pitching wedge. Pitching wedge. Aim right. Pull it. Allow for the band-aid. Play for the crap. I didn’t pull it. You’re joking. I didn’t pull it. I nearly hit Chris. No, it’s come down the hill. Sorry, mate. I nearly killed Whoa. I didn’t think I’d get there. Average people apart for not calling Paul. Yeah, but it’s Chris. Oh man, I can’t believe how close that was. Yeah, pretty slippery. I reckon rain’s going to get quicker with this sun coming out. Please put it on the Did you do the w every Just can’t give up shoppers. You got to keep going. Yes. One over. Good. Uh 358 m par 4 with water. This on a drone would look magic reckon. Yeah. Like with the lake on the left there. All right. Bunker on the right. Just inside that on the green making putts. I hit it good. Just straight at the bunker. I don’t know what’s over that or in it. Sounded cool. Bit right. Okay. Not in the water though. I just birdied a hole. I nearly killed a B. I just birdied off. You birdied a hole. What else do you want? Because I put it on the the third marks. I’ll keep doing that. You reckon? It’s been a winner and I don’t want to jinx it. Yeah. Maybe when I I can feel it coming. Yeah. Yeah. But so we put the drone up and that’s given you a good 10 minutes to cool down. Yeah. I’ve lost me mojo. Can’t find me ball. Oh no. Uhoh. Uh-oh. This is steep. 130. Very ball is really down below your feet. Fade. Surely it fades. Oh, I nearly killed Chris again. Oh, that I didn’t know how that was going to come out. Oh dear. Too big of a break. Right. Come on. Little up and down to finish the nine. Come on. All right. Pretty good. Pick it up. Yeah, I’ll give you that. All right, one over for nine. And what a front nine that was. If the back nine is better than that, I don’t believe you cuz that front nine was unreal. [Music] Okay, big nine. We’re here on a 357 m par 4. Come on, big nine. Mint. Good. Okay. 58 m straight up. Just going to throw it straight up in the air. 58 up there. About there. All right. Come on. Oh, that’s gone. 68. Bit big. Yeah. Just got caught in the rough. Long putt, I reckon if it stayed on. All right. No RZ. No RZ. But we got a birdie putt. I just made the last one. That felt ages ago. Oh no. Okay. Pace control. That’s what we’re doing today cuz we haven’t done it all week. Oh, I hit the thing I was aiming at. It’s the first. All right. We start the back nine. If Wait, hang on. We start the back nine off. Oh, crampy. We uh No, we’re all good. Okay, even par. One over. One over. Well done. Thank you. So, in front of one of the best halfway houses I’ve seen, we have a 550 m par five threaded down this hill, we’ve got Bobby out. Being pretty good, Bobby, actually. All right. Wow, that was good. Perfect. Bobby. Best on ground. Best on ground. 213 uphill. So I’m going to hit me two. One of them little risy fadies ones. Ready? Yeah. Come on. Oh, I didn’t see it. What does that mean? Oh no. I thought that was pretty good. Oh, the guy was there didn’t see it, which doesn’t mean good things. Well, we didn’t know where it went, so that’s not good. I thought I That was spot on. It feels weird thinking about the clubhouse now and thinking up here. Yeah, it’s like a highest point. It’s a whole different world. This is now the highest point of any golf course. It is. So, I’ve got about a 50 m long bunk shot. I’ve got 50° and I’m just going to play like a bunk shot. Any tips? Open the face. Normal bunker shot. Full swing. Oh my god. Stop rzing. Oh, that was pretty good. Wow. That’s the That’s nice buckers. Do you want have a go? Nope. Okay. Okay. Oh, look where I landed it. Bit of Raz. A bit of Kiwi R. Bit of Kiwi Raz. First bit of Kiwi Raz, I reckon I’ve gotten. All right. Come on. This would be massive to get it back to square after how I was feeling after three holes. Yeah. Forgot about the bloody New Zealand finger. What do we call it? Finger. Finger lock. Lock. Should probably write that down. All right. Making short puts. That feels good. One over still. And now we’re at the highest point of New Zealand golf. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. 180 m par three downhill big time. I’m going to hit an eight. That’s how downhill it is. All right. Good luck, everyone. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hit the bunker. Bunker. Damn it. Thought I should fade it. Bugger. Oh, it’s pin eye. Now he landed there. Would have kicked forward. No RZ. Bit of magic needed. Keep it short, I reckon. Man, these are really nice bunkers to hit out, Joel. Like perfect. Don’t care. Why are you saying that to me? Oh, I just perfect. Like absolutely perfect. Like grainy little rocky ones. Yeah. Perfect. Love that. Oh, little dribbler down the hill. That’s slick. It’s definitely getting quicker. Take that part though. What a course. You want to play here? I would play here over jacks or here. Oh, it’s hard one, mate. It’s hard. What about you, Gravy? You want to go jacks? Um, during co when you had to do like just talk to your mates over Zoom. M we did like a big we went to a pub and everyone got like six beers for each like brand and like a normal beer, an IPA, a sour. Oh, so everyone had the same collection of beers. Like that company, you got him, you got that company. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I was a piece of work. You’re not a big drinker though, are you? I don’t drink a lot. I do like when I got like we have a couple of pints, but I do pull up pretty bad. Yeah. I feel like I got some celiac thing. Is that where you can’t drink beer? My mate, he’s probably watching this. He used to be allergic to sulfur in beer. So when he was like, imagine it’s a 19-year-old bloke at a nightclub with white wine that he had to pour white powder in to get rid of the sulfur. How do you explain that to a bouncer? I’m allergic to what? Not getting arrested. dance floor with his finger in his wing. All right, look at this. Par four down the hill. Water short 290 driver. Ricky at it. We’re going birdie or we going double. Here we go. Cut bunker. Oh, it’s looking good, wasn’t it? Oh, that was close. Sit. Sit. Oh, it’s uphill putt. Take that. Wasn’t half looking at the road behind the green. Putting gravy and I’ll hit driver two irons. I’ll get us started. That’s what we should do. Is that just a video? I get us started. Joel hits the shot in gravy chips and putts. The best of the best. 50. 50 for nine. Arguing. I lose the plot. You can’t putt. He just I’ve missed every green. This feels like it’s going to move a bit now. I did. [Music] That’s a birdie hole, isn’t it? Yeah. One over. Oh, not run out of holes. Run out of holes. Getting fatigue. Yeah, a little bit. me a sandwich. You want to have the other one? I’m fine with just having one. No. Yeah, you’re fading away. You’re fing away. Nothing. Where is he? Are you going to hit, mate? Or 39 392 par 4 14th in play on the green. Make a putt. Come on. That was very Healy, but that might be okay. Oh, wow. Wasn’t much conviction behind that shot. All right. Ah, 162 downhill. Have not hit that first shot very far, but we’re going to hit this one close. Oh, I can’t fade it. I can’t get it there either. Oh, man. That was a bit of an anti-water shot because there’s water, right? Not the best shot there. Sorry, troubles. Jim putts. Oh, this is uh there’s a bit more than I thought. Camera. Little leg back. Little soft hand. Little one like that. Boom. No spin. Come on. Something good here. No, just dead straight, wasn’t it? Well, that’s disappointing. Bogey two over. Now I have a lot of work to do. It’s just a bad one. Try put it off the green. See what that would have happened. Oh, [Laughter] no. So, after this, I think I’m heading I’m heading to the to the Jack’s Point to commentate Luke Bond’s video. So, commentate. I don’t know. Yeah, they might not even put me in. Fair enough. I’m going to get a couple of points. Just a cancelled. Yeah. Get to say whatever I like without having to back it up. Yeah. Perfect. I would have made that chip. Do you? Yeah. Oh, you’re chipping that. You ped. You can always park that. That was a part. You would have p that. You’d only be one. Yeah. Right down your boat. 570 m par five. 790 y. Crazy water. Right. What a hole this is. Oh, hang on. No snakes in New Zealand, is there? That we know of. that spot on. All right. My driver before I hit it. That’s weird. I didn’t even realize till then. I was like, “Oh, it’s in the air.” I was just selling gravy before I hit the shot. Hovered me driver up as far as hovered hovered. Oh, I don’t know how you do that, man. I didn’t mean to. I like as I took it away, I was like, “Oh, hang on.” That’s like a little Peter Finch move. That’s our finch. So, you like that? Well, it went straight. I’m trying anything right. Is that um does uh where uh Wesley Brian does he do that or he just puts it right off the heel? Maybe. I like my problem is I drag on the inside. So, it may I was just like keep it out, keep it out and that’s it. Just came off the ground and I hit a good one. No, I don’t mind that. Next hole doesn’t work. N 230 250 to the flag. We’re have we have to have a go cuz we’re two over. So we’re ether shooting eight over or we’re having a pop. And we’re having a pop. Don’t come all this way to just lay up. Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. Yeah. That was a long pop. Oh, just tapping birdie. Have you ever Have you ever had one dominating the par fives here at New Zealand? Dominating two over. How many got left? I don’t know. Two or three. Two or three. All right. Come on. 161 m par three downhill but then winds into us. So I’m going to hit a seven. I need to go just pin seeking now, don’t I? It’s go time or it’s no time. 81 would still be fine if you if I had a crack. Yeah, cool. Happy with that. Weird way to think, but that’s cool. Stay there. I’m trying to kill Chris. Eight. He told me to hit him. Got him. There was there was going to be something big there. Now we’re all right. Par two over two to go. Par five though somewhere cuz I dominate those par five. Par five to finish mate. Stay tuned. I’m I think I’m brewing a big day tomorrow. What do you mean? What’s tomorrow? The big day come out yet, so everyone knows if I’m talking out of me. But but the big money match with the boys. You can’t possibly play bad all the time. to that. You have to play good ones, I guess. Man, I’ve been in a rut. Like, it’s still I’m going all right, you know what I mean? Like, nothing’s happening. Yeah. No. No big putts. I remember when I first um when we first started doing this, you would just drop big putts all the time. Yeah. There was like stuff to celebrate. Now, it’s just about nice courses. Yeah. We’ve had to go scenic. Yeah. Change change the form. Yeah. Uh, we’re here on the 17th. Watch me make a five for four. Oh no. Right, we got a This is I think a positional T- shot. I think I’m just going to go out the bunker. M little draw. Big big finish though. Betty Betty golf shot. That’s better. I haven’t hit two on much today. Should Okay. Hope so. That came out the guts. Big finish, Ron. Come on. Birdie. Birdie. 116. I’m going to just belt to 50 and just because I feel as a back stop. This could be Raz. Raz Cam. Raz Cam. Raz Cam. Been a while. Got him. Straight at you. Yes. I feel like I did something that I said I was going to do out loud. Big finish. Imagine a birdie birdie finish. I can’t really see it. The idea is great. Oh, you can’t see me doing it. No. Big part. This is going I’m going at it. It’s going in or three button. Come on. Something here, Ronald. [Music] Oh my god, I did something. One to go and one over. All right, 18th hole. This is the same hole peak. He just flew it over that bunker, which we just had a look. I think it was like 280 to cover and he carried it. No, he bounced it short and it rolled over. No, he didn’t carry it, but then it was like 40 m past it. Wind was helping. I’ve got it against me. All right, we’re just again we’re going for it. Big finish. 81. 81 from here. That’s a big number on this old par five. Uh 500 odd creek short. Big big man drive. Big Australian man drive on those one. Come on out drive peaky. Big Australian man. Cut. Cut. I cut. That’s not 280. Big bounce. Big bounce. This is short of the bunker. Wow. Good shot, Peggy. He got me. This is suited for a left-hander. That’s why he got you by 80 m. I hate I can hit a left-handed draw. I mean, right in the bunker, aren’t I? You’re going to be smack straight and then I got to hit something out of the bunker. Am I? Am I? Oh, everyone slowed down. Oh, and you’ve got the biggest lip of it as well. We’re going for it though, aren’t we? No, you can’t. No way. Really? 244 out of a bunker with a big lip in front of you. Taking it on. 81. 243 over a creek out of a fairway bunker. That’s the swing I need. Well, thanks for watching everyone. This could be the end of the video right here. Can’t grab me club either. Did that do it? I think it might be in the trap. I fl that. Wow, that was golf. Wow, that’s the best shot of the day. Want to get in? Yeah, I thought I’d go for a walk. That lasted about 3 minutes. Oh, I’m on the green. Oh, mate, that’s a golf finish, man. Look at that big shot there. I didn’t realize that building was there. I probably wouldn’t have done that. Trying to come over it. Yeah, that’s uh Come on. Nothing silly now, Missy. Nothing silly. Just come on. So, like every video I’m going to just say thank you to Milbrook because if this ain’t going in, we cut the video. Milbrook Resort. We are back tomorrow for a big video which is probably coming out. But I’m really looking forward to that. This has been probably one of my favorite courses depending on what happens here. Could go from first to second pretty quickly. This for even par. Wow, what a day. I lied that in. Who Who guessed par? Well done, Jolly. Shut up, mate. Well done. That’s the best thing I’ve done this trip. All right, thanks for watching. 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Course: Millbrook Golf Resort, Arrowtown
Par: 72
Rating: 74.5

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