TITIRANGI GOLF CLUB
Links Road, New Lynn, Auckland, NZ

Play Titirangi

Play Auckland's most celebrated golf course. Titirangi is a native Maori name and means "Fringe of Heaven". That is what has been created at the club with the magic touch of Dr. Alister MacKenzie, one of the great masters of golf course design. It’s the closest you will get to Augusta National, Cypress Point or Royal Melbourne in New Zealand.

The golf course

Conceived in 1914, Titirangi was privileged in 1926 to obtain the services of Dr. Alister MacKenzie (1870-1934) to redesign the course. Dr MacKenzie, designer of Augusta National, Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point and many outstanding courses liked what he saw. The ground was "exceptionally well adapted for golf, undulating, without being hilly".

Today the course is consistently rated in New Zealand's top five courses. The course has a N.Z.G.A slope rating of 128 off the Blue tees. At 5857 metres off the championship tees and a par of 70, Titirangi has won a reputation as "one of the longest short courses". The club course measures 5653 metres and the women's course is a par 72 at 5113 metres. The 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 17th equal the toughest par fours at Augusta or Royal Melbourne. The 12th and 17th are monsters measuring 411 and 423 metres off the back blocks. The others range from 363 to 387 metres.

Titirangi is widely regarded as having New Zealand's best collection of par threes fiendishly designed by MacKenzie. Each provides a great challenge and play to a different point of the compass, so wind direction and club selection are of paramount importance. The club has recently upgraded three holes on the back nine including the 11th, 12th ,13th and 18th Already these holes have been tagged amen corner. Get through here unscathed and you have done pretty well.

There is great debate over which is the feature hole at Titirangi. Choose from the 13th, a 460 metre par five, the par four 12th at 411metres, both bounded by native bush and a huge 700 sq metre bunkered green or, the recently refurbished 11th, a par three hole which was modeled on the famous Redan at "North Berwick" and involves a 160 metre carry over a ravine. However, arguably the feature hole at Titirangi is the par three 14th, considered by Peter Thomson to be one of Dr McKenzie's greatest holes that has remained virtually unchanged since Mckenzie created it; a par three weaving through native bush and a carry of over 185 metres to a two tiered green. Just hit it long, straight and onto the right level. Then walk over a uniquely designed timber bridge over the creek and through native bush to the green.