Dennis Price from Epic Journeys has a unique offer to “spin your wheels”.
Read MoreGolf is too expensive, it takes too much time and the game is too hard.
We hear such comments all the time and they could be some of the reasons behind declining membership numbers at golf clubs around the world.
With that in mind Manor Park Golf Sanctuary in Wellingtonhas introduced an exciting new par three course with a difference in an effort to turn those numbers around.
Dianne Sweeney (Walton) the Waikato Women’s President, partnered with Deb Ring (Walton) have won the 43rd New Zealand Women’s Senior Handicap Foursomes at Matamata Golf Club today. For their four days work, the pair win the NZLGU Senior Women’s Salvers and the 2016 title.
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Millbrook Resort has won two top prizes at the 2016 World Golf Awards, which celebrates and rewards excellence in golf tourism, world class courses and golf destinations.
The World Golf Awards, held in Portugal last month, named Millbrook as the winner of both Oceania’s and New Zealand’s best golf hotel awards. The Oceania region represents Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
The inaugural Hawke’s Bay 4-Course Classic, celebrating golf and wine across the Hawke’s Bay region, finished with winners from Nelson, Purangi, Royal Auckland and Mt Maunganui.
More than 110 golfers and partners from 45 golf clubs in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Fiji took part in the four-day event, playing Maraenui, Napier, Hawke’s Bay and Hastings golf clubs.
Ryan Fox is now on the world’s second biggest golf circuit, the European Tour.
Fox gained full playing rights for the European Tour after finishing fourth in the points standings for Europe’s second tier circuit, the Challenge Tour.
More than 140 caddies will be required for the next year’s ISPS Handa New Zealand Open in Queenstown at The Hills and Millbrook courses from March 9-12.
At the previous event, last March, there were several volunteer caddies involved on the final day’s play, either caddying for professionals or assisting some of the amateur players.
The three recipients of the Lydia Ko scholarship have been announced by New Zealand Golf.
They are Alanna Campbell (Bay of Plenty), Momoka Kobori (Canterbury) and Eujin Kang (Auckland).
The goal of the scholarship is to better prepare New Zealand’s top women amateur golfers for success on the world stage, said New Zealand Golf’s high performance manager Gregg Thorpe.
“Without access to the right information bridging the gap, from being a strong national level player to being an internationally successful amateur can be a difficult one,’’ Thorpe said.
Many of our New Zealand Left handed members have just returned from Surfers Paridise, where we joined nearly 200 Australian men and Lady Lefties to play in the 51st Australian Left handed Championship held at the beautiful Royal Pines Course.
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When the world’s richest golf circuit for women comes to New Zealand for the first time it will be held at a golf course just a year old.
The LPGA (Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association) Tour last month announced that the New Zealand Women’s Open would be added to it’s schedule for 2017 and that it would be held in Auckland at Windross Farm.
The trophy will show Louis Dobbelaar as the winner of the New Zealand Amateur Championship but it will not reveal the marathon path he took to get there.
Dobbelaar became the youngest winner at age 15 of the New Zealand Amateur in the tournament’s 123-year history but he had to survive some hectic battles to get there.