A New Zealand tennis champion and a New Zealand hockey representative extended their sporting achievements when winning the men’s and women’s divisions of the New Zealand Mid-Amateur Championship at Mangahwai in Northland.
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Seven golfers from New Zealand have secured their cards on this year’s PGA Tour of Australasia after progressing through the final stage of a qualifying series in Melbourne.
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It was the perfect example of Harry Hillier’s positive attitude.
The Bay of Plenty teenage golfer was explaining in an interview with Golfer Pacific how the diagnosis of a rare disorder known as protein C deficiency robbed him of a highly-anticipated trip to play golf in Mexico.
New Zealand is blessed with many Coastal and Country Golf gems from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Our many cities have classic signature courses, complimented by superb Links courses within respective districts. Below are our favourite holes for you to tackle this Summer.
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Lydia Ko has confirmed she will again play the New Zealand’s Women’s Open which will be held in Christchurch next month.
Despite her busy —and much lore lucrative — schedule on the LPGA Tour she has again made time to return home.
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Planning a golf holiday for 2016?
Not sure where to go, which events to take in?
Then consider the following list we have compiled that might provide some ideas.
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Canterbury swept Bay of Plenty aside in the final to win 5-0 at the Ashburton Golf Club. It was Canterbury’s first win in the tournament for 27 years.
The one-sided final was a turnaround from earlier in the day when Canterbury faced North Harbour in it's semi-final. At the end of regulation play it was 2-1/2 points each and a playoff was required to determine the finalist.
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Waikato is for the second year in a row the winner of the men’s Interprovincials tournament.
Waikato beat Otago 4-1 in the final of New Zealand golf’s most prized teams' event to repeat its win of the previous year.
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New Zealand Golf recently hosted a new industry body at Royal Auckland. New Zealand Golf Industry Council (NZGIC)was launched with the purpose to unite the industry on agreed industry-wide initiatives. A cross section of New Zealand’s Golf industry was invited to attend including manufacturers, distributors, publishers, and association and club managers.
Read MoreFor a country of such modest size New Zealand boasts an enviable number of golf courses that would hold their own – and more – anywhere on the globe. The country’s much admired landscapes offers a magnificent array of backdrops.
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Daniel Hillier has become the youngest male to win on New Zealand’s primary professional golf circuit, the Charles Tour.
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It’s one step at a time.
That’s the attitude Hawke’s Bay husband and wife Terry and Barbara O’Donnell and their son Peter are taking with their newly-established professional golf circuit, KiwiPro Tour.
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Terrace Downs Resort is proud to announce that they are the winners of the Best Golf Hotel 2015 for New Zealand at the annual World Golf Awards held in Algarve, Portugal.
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Go Golfing Travel has been named2015 Oceania's Best Golf Tour Operator and 2015 Australia's Best Inbound Golf Tour Operator at the second annual World Golf Awards held at the Conrad Hotel in Algarve, Portugal.
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Otago golf professional Andrew Whiley recently completed the first New Zealand golf course regional rankings.
With 776 respondents representing 114 golf clubs, the regional rankings were based on regions similar to the Super 15 rugby regions. Each golfer was asked to rank their top six golf courses, their favourite “nine-hole” golf course and their “hidden gem”.
The Ladbrokes World Masters, Australia’s biggest and richest international tournament for club golfers, hosted its 20th annual tournament on the Gold Coast in the last week of October. Tournament organisers Go Golfing promised big things to celebrate the milestone and delivered the Gold Coast’s 4 best courses, 280 daily golf awards, $120,000 in prizes, nightly 19th Hole parties and glamorous welcome and presentation dinners.
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Female junior numbers were the sport's only membership category to increase last year, and it was hoped the women, whose combined Instagram following alone was in excess of 650,000, would provide further impetus.
"The female segment is the first cab off the rank that we are targeting [in giving] clubs the knowledge, resources and tools to attract specific groups of the market, and further drive participation and membership at club level," New Zealand Golf marketing manager Jan Rowsell said.
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The winning margin was eight strokes and the age 13.
They are two amazing statistics to come from the winner of the women’s division of the Taranaki Open.
The winner was Vyan Park who was a model of consistency over the four days of the tournament at Ngamotu in New Plymouth.
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A $6.5 million redevelopment of the Royal Wellington golf course has received an early dividend.
It was announced last month that Royal Wellington would host the 2017 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, which has quickly developed into one of the world's most prestigious amateur golf tournaments.
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A string of one-putts on the final eight holes catapulted Joonsang Chung to victory in the Taranaki Open at Ngamotu in New Plymouth.
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