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— Explore New Zealand 18 Holes at a Time —

Alister MacKenzie's contribution to New Zealand.

Titirangi Golf Club
Links Road, New Lynn
Auckland, New Zealand
TEL: +64 (0)9 827 3967
FAX: +64 (0)9 827 8125
EMAIL: director.Titirangi@golf.co.nz?subject=GolfBooking
WEB SITE: http://www.titirangigolf.co.nz/Default.aspx

          Titirangi Golf Club put New Zealand on the world golf map—but not immediately. First conceived in 1914, Titirangi hired the prominent English-American course designer Dr. Alister MacKenzie (1870-1934) to redesign its original course in 1926. MacKenzie, a Yorkshire physician turned golf course architect, learned his craft in association with the legendary H. S. Colt in England before emigrating to the United States in the 1920s and pursuing a solo golf architecture career. Although Dr. MacKenzie was not especially accomplished as a golfer, he was able to envision how best to adapt the natural features of a property to the challenge of the game. At

THE 7TH HOLE AT TITIRANGI—ONE OF ALISTER
MACKENZIE'S 'COMPASS PAR-3s' (NORTH FACING).
                                    Photos courtesy Titirangi Golf Club

TEEING OFF THE 1ST INTO THE
MORNING MISTS. TITIRANGI IS NOT
A LINKS, YET IS WITHIN A FEW
MILES OF TWO OCEANS.

Central Ireland (1927) and Blairgowrie Rosemount in Central Scotland (1927), Cypress Point in California (1928), Royal Melbourne West (1931), and, most famously, Augusta National in Georgia at the request of Bobby Jones in 1933. The good doctor found the site at Titirangi “exceptionally well adapted for golf: undulating, without being hilly”.

          Although a course building surge has swept New Zealand in recent years adding several world class courses to the country’s roster of top courses, Titirangi Golf Club still makes New Zealand’s top ten list, despite being relatively short (at 6,616 yards) by modern championship golf standards. MacKenzie’s time-tested and now very mature design at Titirangi, therefore, has proved that, with golf at least, longer isn’t necessarily better.
 

THE MACKENZIE CHALLENGE: At Titirangi, Alister MacKenzie designed four par-3 holes, two on each nine, all of similar length, but each facing a different point of the compass. Titirangi Golf Club invites visitors to accept its MacKenzie Challenge—recording par or better on each of the four compass threes: the 4^th (160m, 175 yards), 7^th (170m, 186 yards), 11^th (161m, 176 yards), and 14^th (168m, 184 yards) holes.

ALISTER MACKENZIE

THE REGION: Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city, with fully one-third the population of the nation within its limits. As such, it is New Zealand’s commercial and social center, with many of the nation’s major corporations headquartered here. Auckland is a university city, with a youthful population and dynamic nightlife centered in the harbor district, around Sky City, and in Parnell Village and across the harbor in Devonport. There are numerous museums, excellent restaurants, and trendy boutiques scattered throughout Auckland. Aucklanders are noted outdoorsmen, fond of sports of all kinds: tennis, golf, rugby, soccer, cricket, running, fishing, swimming, and, especially, sailing. Set as it is on an isthmus between two oceans (the South Pacific and the Tasman), Auckland has beaches, islands, and open water enough for its burgeoning population and many more to come. Auckland is also a small but important wine-producing region of New Zealand, noted for its rich red cabernets and bright chardonnays.

THE 8TH HOLE AT TITIRANGI IS A
SHORT PAR-4 (339 YARDS) WITH
LOTS OF DANGER (SAND & WATER)
AROUND THE GREEN. TYPICAL OF
AN ALISTER MACKENZIE COURSE,
TITIRANGI REQUIRES ACCURATE
SHOT MAKING IF NOT GREAT LENGTH.