Auckland’s famed Gulf Harbour course facing a bleak future

Gulf Harbour Golf & Country Club, which occupies a stunning isthmus location on the Whangaparāoa Peninsula, north of Auckland, is facing an unwelcome fate in a similar manner to several suburban courses in Australia.

Where We Play: Te Arai Links, New Zealand

Positioned alongside a pristine piece of New Zealand coastline, Te Arai Links is arguably the world’s best new golf destination. Boasting two pure links golf courses – the South course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw that’s been open for little more than a year, and the recently opened North course designed by Tom Read more…

Course flyover: Titirangi Golf Club

In terms of golf club marketing, there are few better tools than being able to credit Alister MacKenzie as course designer. Fortuitously, Titirangi Golf Club is blessed to have hosted MacKenzie during his whistle-stop tour of the Antipodes in 1926-1927 that changed the direction of golf Down Under.