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Millbrook Resort
Arrowtown near Queenstown
South Island, New Zealand
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Deluxe Golf in a Remarkable Setting
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If you’re looking
for spectacular scenery, challenging golf, and friendly environs that offer great food,
hospitality, touring and accommodations at a reasonable price in one of the First
World’s most exotic locations, read on!
Evidence of an American Empire exists
worldwide—at the very least in the proliferation of American-style golf resorts. Jack
Nicklaus has designed courses in Scotland and England. In recent years several new Irish
resort courses have been built in the American style to lure American club golfers, to the
consternation of Irish traditionalists. Outside of the First World the phenomenon is also
widespread, with Mexico, Arabia, and Thailand all becoming golf destinations American
style. So it should be no surprise that an American-style golf resort has been built in
that furthest corner of the First World, New Zealand’s South
Island. Millbrook Resort opened in the 1990’s in a fabulous natural
setting near the end of the earth.
Millbrook is a full resort community built
around a gorgeous golf course. New Zealand’s international golf legend, Bob Charles,
was brought in to design the course, and he’s happy with the result. So are most
golfers who play Millbrook. Include former President Bill Clinton among the amateurs who
have played a round at Millbrook and enjoyed the experience thoroughly.
Millbrook is more than golf, and that is
important. The golf is inexpensive there—by American standards certainly. The folks
at Millbrook hope you come to play golf, but they hope you bring the family, too. The
housing possibilities are varied and attractive. (Home at First can arrange housing at
Millbrook for its New Zealand guests.) There
are lots of activities other than golf at Millbrook: a fitness center, a spa, three themed
restaurants, swimming and saunas, tennis, biking, hiking and running trails.
If you run out of things to do at Millbrook, Queenstown—New Zealand’s outdoor
activity and adventure sports center—is about a dozen miles away. Think jet boats,
bungy jumping, winter skiing, serious hiking, more serious mountain climbing, horseback
riding, trout fishing, and more adventure rides than an amusement park. The scenery in
this region of New Zealand is perfect for such activity: not too high, but arid, with big
lakes, wild rivers, and rimmed with rugged mountains. The oceans—three of them, but,
most prominently two, the Southern Ocean and the Tasman Sea—are short flights or long
hikes from Queenstown. And, if golf is your thing, Millbrook isn’t the only quality
game around. Queenstown’s Kelvin Heights course
is, if anything, even more scenic than Millbrook, while perhaps being somewhat less of a
challenge.
LOCATION:
Millbrook Resort
Malaghan Road, Arrowtown
near Queenstown, Otago
New Zealand
Open & Usually Playable year round.
LENGTH & PAR & New Zealand Golf Association Rating: 18 Holes, Par
72
Black (Championship) Tees: 7013 yards, Par 72, NZGA
Rating: 74
Blue Tees: 6636 yards, Par 72, NZGA Rating: 72
White Tees: 6255 yards, Par 72, NZGA/LGA Rating: 69/75
Red Tees: 5368 yards, Par 72, NZLGA Rating: 70
FACILITIES:
Clubhouse with Men’s & Women’s Locker Rooms
Pro Shop
Restaurants: 3
Bar: 1
Driving Range
Practice Putting Green
Golf Cart Rental: NZ$42
(Sep-May); NZ$30 (Jun-Aug)
Pull Carts (Trundlers): NZ$10
Club Rental: NZ$55 (Sep-May)
& NZ$40 (Jun-Aug)
Shoe Rental: NZ$15
GREENS FEES:
September thru May: NZ$135 (NZ$70 for guests staying at
Millbrook Resort)
Winter—June thru August: NZ$60 (NZ$40 for
guests staying at Millbrook Resort)
Major Credit Cards Accepted
Visitors Welcome Every Day: advance tee times
required.
No Handicap Minimums.
Golf Attire including Golf Shoes required.
BOOKING OF TEE TIMES (required in advance):
Reservations of Tee Times:
Tel: (+64) 3 441 7010
Fax: (+64) 3 441 7007
e-mail:
proshop@millbrook.co.nz
web site:
www.millbrook.co.nz
Driving Directions From Queenstown or Queenstown Airport to Millbrook:
Follow signs to Arrowtown. At Arrowtown follow signs for Millbrook Resort.
NEAREST HOME AT FIRST LODGINGS:
• at Millbrook Resort itself
• in Queenstown, approximately 20 minutes from
Millbrook Resort.
See: HOME AT FIRST in QUEENSTOWN
Let HOME AT FIRST book your tee-time at Millbrook (FREE!) in advance as part of your New Zealand travel itinerary.
Other Golf in the Region: Be sure to play at Queenstown's Kelvin Heights Golf Course, which also ranks among the most scenic courses in New Zealand.
HISTORY: Founded in 1992 as the centerpiece of the
Millbrook Resort, the course was designed by Bob
Charles*, New Zealand’s greatest golfer. Charles has written about
Millbrook: "When I first visited the site…I realized I had been given something
special to work with. Nestled in the Wakatipu Basin, surrounded by the spectacular
Remarkables, the terrain lent itself so naturally to the game of golf that it was only one
one hole that any earth moving was required. Thus, like most great golf courses in the
world, it has been largely laid on the natural landscape."
THE COURSE & SOME NOTABLE HOLES: Millbrook Resort sits in a shallow
amphitheater of prime ranchland on a plateau above Lake Hayes. Always in view are the
surrounding mountains of the Southern Alps and the Remarkables.
Information about travel with HOME AT FIRST to NEW ZEALAND.
More information about GOLF IN NEW ZEALAND.