The First-Ever Snowfest Frisbee Golf Championship a Big Success
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The ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest is known for being about more than just poker - it's a great holiday experience that all the players rave about. It's one of the funnest stops on the tour and that's for reasons like this.
During the week, the inaugural 2012 Queenstown Snowfest Frisbee Golf Championship took place. APPT President Danny McDonaugh has prepared a little rundown of the exciting event for us.
"There were 27 brave souls who participated in the qualifying round of this championship on Thursday.
This was open to all, however to qualify for the final you also needed to play the ANZPT Queenstown main event. Players each needed to record a 9 hole score with par being 29. We actually had the local Queenstown champ Russell play who recorded an amazing 23 shots. Good enough to get a great Queenstown players bag but with no main event entry, Russell did not qualify for the final.
Our five finalists were:
Bill Argyros
Don Lister-Smith
Bryan Huang
Denver Lee
Glenn Maiden
Denver and Glenn had good local knowledge of the course, but Bryan Huang brought a new four pack of Frisbees singnalling his serious intentions to take this one down.
If it was a one hole final Bryan would have been the winner with an impressive first hole birdie but as the first 9 holes completed Glenn and Denver exerted their dominance with 28 and 29 shots respectively. Bryan was on 35, Australian hall of famer Billy on 38 and Jon with 40 shots.
The Team PokerStars Pro had a big decision to make after nine holes – go for gold in the Frisbee golf or concentrate on the final table of the Queenstown Snowfest main event! Being 7 shots adrift of the leaders, Bryan elected to pass on the second nine and give up all hope of achieving an amazing double.
So it became a race in two with Denver and Glenn both shooting 57 or one under par for the course. It actually took a third playoff hole to decide the winner, with Glenn eventually triumphing to become the inaugural champ."