Titirangi Golf Club

An Alister MacKenzie design from 1927, tucked into Waitakere bushland twenty minutes from central Auckland — a true “fringe of Heaven.”

Alister MacKenzie designed the course in the 1920s, opening in 1927, truly a “fringe of Heaven” – the Maori translation of Titirangi. The course is only 20 minutes from central Auckland, worth the drive to one of New Zealand’s top golf courses.

A world-class golf course, not long after the opening of the course it hosted the NZ open in 1933, following on in 1951 and 1962 the open returned. Many an international great has walked the fairways, Arnold Palmer and one of my favourites, Sandy Lyle.

The extensive bunkering, the massive undulating greens and the a modern refit of some the holes makes this pure quality.

The Course

A full rainbow arcing over the fairways at Titirangi Golf Club with two golfers walking beneath it — A rainbow over the course after a passing shower

Mounded fairway framed by tall pine trees with a winding cart path at Titirangi Golf Club — MacKenzie’s natural contouring, framed by mature pines

Green guarded by kidney-shaped white sand bunkers framed by trees at Titirangi Golf Club — Classic MacKenzie bunkering guards this green

Bunkers beneath a large pine tree beside a green at Titirangi Golf Club — A pine tree looms over the bunkers here

Cart path curving through a valley fairway at Titirangi Golf Club — The path winds down through a natural valley

View from the Titirangi Golf Club clubhouse balcony over the course at dusk, palms and course flags in the foreground — The view from the clubhouse balcony as the light fades

Get to Know the Holes

Titirangi names several of its holes, and none has more of a reputation than the 13th.

The 13th is called the “Wrecker” no fear standing on the tee box aiming at an elevated hidden fairway. Only to encounter a gully and lone pine in the middle of the fairway. The greenside bunkers take no prisoners. Enjoy!

Hole 6 tee marker "Terraces" at Titirangi Golf Club — Hole 6 — “Terraces”

Hole 7 tee marker "Pavilion" at Titirangi Golf Club — Hole 7 — “Pavilion”

Hole 12 tee marker "Titirangi" at Titirangi Golf Club, named after the club itself — Hole 12 — named simply “Titirangi”

Hole 13 tee marker "Wrecker" at Titirangi Golf Club — Hole 13 — “Wrecker”

Lone pine tree in the middle of the fairway on the 13th hole Wrecker at Titirangi Golf Club — The lone pine waiting mid-fairway on the Wrecker

Green ringed by bunkers in a natural bowl on the 13th hole Wrecker at Titirangi Golf Club — The Wrecker’s green — bunkers that take no prisoners

Local Character

Titirangi’s Waitakere-fringe setting shows in the native bush lining several fairways and tee boxes — cordylines, palms and ferns giving the course a different character to the more open parkland courses elsewhere in Auckland.

Cart path curving through native cordyline and palm plantings at Titirangi Golf Club — Native bush framing the paths

Golfer teeing off from a tee box fringed by ferns and native bush at Titirangi Golf Club — Teeing off from a tee box tucked into the bush

Club History

Titirangi’s design pedigree is documented on the clubhouse wall: a MacKenzie Society plaque marking the club’s place among the golf courses designed worldwide by Alister MacKenzie, the architect behind Augusta National and Cypress Point.

MacKenzie Society 2008 plaque at Titirangi Golf Club with a portrait of Alister MacKenzie — Titirangi’s place on the MacKenzie Society honour roll

PHYSICAL ADDRESS:

11 Links Road, New Lynn, Auckland 0600