Te Ihi O Te Rangi
by Kristoffer Selberg
Play the only Alister MacKenzie Course in New Zealand
Welcome to Titirangi Golf Club, consistently ranked in the top 10 courses in the country. For nearly 100 years, our Alister MacKenzie designed course has provided a never ending challenge to golfers of all levels. From hosting multiple New Zealand Opens, to testing professionals of old like Arnold Palmer, Sir Bob Charles and Greg Norman, to testing the latest generation like Ryan Fox, Munchin Keh and current NZ Women’s Amatuer Champion, Fiona Xu, Titirangi is one of NZ’s best championship golf courses.
The Titirangi Experience
The Titirangi golf course was designed in 1927 by world renowned golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie, and is the only MacKenzie-designed course in New Zealand. Other MacKenzie courses include icons such as Augusta, Cypress Point and Royal Melbourne.
Titirangi is one of the 14 “Marquee Courses” in New Zealand, selected for their quality, location, scenery, architecture and appeal for discerning golfers. Our course is sculpted out of a beautiful environment – rolling fairways set amid lush native New Zealand bush, all a short 20 minute drive from the heart of Auckland city.
US Links magazine, US Golf Digest, Robb Report and top100golfcourses all rate Titirangi as the best course in Auckland, and in the top 7 in the country.
If you’re visiting from overseas we recommend you book your round in advance.
To make a booking click on the booking page links or call / email us. (Please note that certain times of the week are reserved for members only, including Wednesdays and Saturdays before 1pm).
We look forward to welcoming you!
phone: +64 9 827 5749
email: [email protected]
LINKS CORNER REVIEW
Overall Impression:
Wow, where do I start? This is a fabulously hilly tropical course right out of the South Pacific! The elevation work here is some of the best ever done! The course starts out high-up on a tropical island and winds its way down to the ocean. The textures and planting can be described in one word: lush! Everything about this course is lush. It is very green and..well..lush! The planting set is a perfect tropical mix of trees, grasses and bushes. It is pretty severe though. You will never have a flat lie or an easy shot. If you really miss hit one, you will be in deep trouble! As a word of warning, if you hit one into the jungle here, rehit! Don’t go in there and try to hack your way out; you’ll never make it! The other main impression this course makes is with the water hazards, streams and waterfalls! They are prevalent throughout the course. The waterfall on 15 is probably the best one ever done in the APCD! Very realistic looking!
Summary: A fantastic and fun tropical course, like nothing else you have ever played. I highly recommend it to everyone. My very small nit picks include: not having the jungle areas as hazards and some severe pin positions. But seriously folks this is a course you have just got to have. Your Links golf course collection just wouldn’t be complete without it!
Reviewed by: Chuck Clark
12/18/03
CLIPNOTES
Description
Imaginary, canyon course
Location
A Pacific Island
Conditions
I don’t think faster than S*/M* is desirable.
Concept 7/10
Larger than life, Te Ihi O Te Rangi (great name, by the way! It means ‘fall from the sky’) winds its way down a Pacific island’s mountainside. Massive elevation changes mark the terrain, and hole designs tend towards the extraordinary. It’s a tremendous idea for a round of golf, undoubtedly influenced by Kapalua among others, but it lacks the coherence between holes that makes you feel that you are really there.
Appearance 7/10
Generally good, but a few views are a bit underwhelming. The water features, in particular, seem underplanted, and when you hit the jungle areas, you realise they too are far too sparse, especially compared to other jungle courses. But the elevations make for some spectacular views, and to a large extent the visuals on offer will carry you around 18 holes.
Playability 7/10
While the environment just tempts you in to play, the golf course itself might invite frustration. Impossible lies are commonplace, thanks to the jungle areas being playable land, and pars are extraordinarily difficult to make on the front nine. In terms of the novelty and its departure from a ‘normal’ round of golf, though, the course keeps you involved, and two or three holes offer a brilliantly original design.
Overall
A course which invites you to play, and may well might make you wish you hadn’t bothered. Very punishing and unfair in parts; you’ll need a lot of soul to take the course seriously.
CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson
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