A new-look course with Tom Doak’s fingerprints all over it is just one of the many reasons you need to tick the world-class Mornington Peninsula off your travel list.
The 606-metre par-5 18th at Kapalua is the longest closing hole on any Golf Digest American-ranked course, but it’s still reachable in two, given its elevation drop and prevailing trade winds behind.
While the move to Trinity Forest – a Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed that opened in 2014 – was welcomed by architecture fans, the tournament has suffered a series of woes the past two years.
Golf Digest’s inaugural ranking of the best courses across the ditch shines the spotlight on New Zealand’s international classics as well as its time-honoured gems.
Gailes Golf Club boasts a storied history, yet in its 95th year it is a progressive approach that is exposing the course to a far more diverse demographic.
Few golf clubs have experienced a rockier climb to the top than Palmerston North. The club has changed the location of its course on four separate occasions, each time having to start development from scratch. Four times it has created a new establishment and twice it has had to re-establish itself from wreckage – in 1947 after World War II and in 1965 after a disastrous flood.
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