Dear fellow golfers. come with me on this journey, to play every golf course in New Zealand, 3 putts at a time.

There is a reported 393 courses in NZ and this is declining as developers and councils carve up our greens and fairways to put up town houses. Some courses are on the brink of bankruptcy and will be lost to farmland. So I thought I better play them all now before it is too late.
You might learn a little about the course, the clubhouse food and beverage offering, the weather, the thickness of the rough, the new rule changes or nothing much at all about golf.

New  Zealand has the 2nd highest number of courses per capita – behind the home of golf… Scotland.. I am a Scotsman living in New Zealand so it would be only fitting that I get around each an every course in the country.
Why am I tackling this now? I have just turned 50 – I was a bit busy for a mid life crisis so maybe this is it. I loved golf as a young man and played a lot with my brother. He was much better at the game than me. But after the accident I didn’t play and trying to regain the aggressive and expert game that I once had is proving difficult.

I’m taking lessons for the first time, I was asked “what are your golf goals?” I never had any, I mumbled a reactionary goal to my golf coach, ” single figure handicap before I get too old”  ( I’m currently on 11.2 – don’t be fooled can’t play anywhere near that ) Fred, my coach,  said ” you are going to have some fun this summer” as he rips my swing to pieces and starts to rebuild.
I decided to get some golf goals

1. Play off of a single figure handicap- I have a ridiculous historic handicap which won’t go away- my scoring is currently around 85-90

2. Play every golf course in NZ – not sure how long this will take.

3. Never mention the accident again as a excuse.

4. Stop referring the birth of my kids as the accident.