New Zealand
Golf at the edge of the map
Te Arai's two courses on one stretch of Northland coast, Cape Kidnappers and Kauri Cliffs for the drama. A short list, all of it worth the flight.
New Zealand is a two-week country played in one week if you plan it properly. The Northland sand at Te Arai — Coore and Crenshaw's South, Doak's North — is the most concentrated run of modern architecture anywhere outside the United States, and both courses take visitors. Add Cape Kidnappers on the way south and you have a trip most golfers only see in photographs. Tee times are limited and move slowly; this is the destination that most rewards booking eighteen months out.
Courses we book here
$ to $$$$ · more on requestTe Arai Links (South)
NorthlandCoore and Crenshaw on the best sand in the country, and open to visitors — the reason a Northland week works at all.
Te Arai Links (North)
NorthlandDoak's companion course, higher in the dunes with more of the Pacific in view.
Paraparaumu Beach
AucklandAlex Russell's 1949 links near Wellington. The country's classic, and a bargain.
Cape Kidnappers
Hawke's BayFingers of fairway running out to cliffs 140 metres above the sea. Nothing else looks like it.
Kauri Cliffs
Bay of IslandsClifftop holes above the Pacific with a lodge to match. The scenic bookend to a Northland week.
Jack's Point
South IslandThe Remarkables straight ahead on nearly every hole. Scenery first, good golf second.
The Hills
South IslandSir Michael Hill's championship course above Arrowtown, laid out through a sculpture park with the Remarkables behind it.
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