Golf Courses
Luxury Golf Tours New Zealand's main focus is providing tour members with luxury golf. With that in mind we have selected five of the most luxurious golf courses that you can find in New Zealand. These five courses can match anything else in the world and are a must for the keen golfer.
Gulf Harbour was home to the 2006 New Zealand Open, the premier golf tournament in New Zealand, and is currently home to 2005 US Open winner, New Zealander Michael Campbell. This 7,000 yards/6,400 metres, par 72 golf course plays alongside the Pacific Ocean and has four sets of tees for all level of golfers. Like all great courses Gulf Harbour has a range of challenges to test even the bravest golfer.
Rated as the #30 course in the world outside of the US by Golf Digest magazine in May 2007, Kauri Cliffs is one of the most visually spectacular courses you will ever play. The par 72 championship golf course measures 7,119 yards/6,510 metres and offers fifteen holes with views of the Pacific Ocean, six of which are played alongside cliffs which plunge to the sea. A stray drive here and you can forget looking for your ball!
 Wairakei International is New Zealand's finest inland golf course. Located in the middle of the North Island, five minutes from Lake Taupo, the 7,047 yards/6,444 metres par 72 course has 108 large well placed bunkers that has lead to worldwide acclaim. This course has also ranked inside the top 50 courses in the world outside of the US by Golf Digest Magazine.
New Zealand's top course is one that every serious golfer in the world must play. Considered "the leader among the many cliffside courses that claim to be the new Pebble Beach" Golf Digest ranked it the tenth best course in the world outside of the US in May 2007, and stated "Kidnappers is terrific, a masterpiece no less". With 7,137 yards/6,520 metres of luxury golf, the par 71 Cape Kidnappers golf course simply must be seen, and played, to be believed.
This is where you get your chance to tame the Tiger, in the only course in New Zealand that has hosted Tiger Woods in a tournament. In 2002 Woods tied for sixth in the New Zealand Open, with a 72-hole score of 5-under 279 on the 6,577 yards/6,014 metres par 71 course. The course itself comes in at #65 in the world outside of the US by Golf Digest magazine May 2007, and earns that spot as one of the finest true links courses anywhere. |
