Waitangi Golf Club - Bay of Islands

Where the sea meets the tee

Paihia • Bay of Islands • Northland • New Zealand

'THE CUT' Magazine

January/February 2009 Issue

Many thanks to ' THE CUT' magazine for their permission to reprint this great article

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This is the official website of The Waitangi Golf Club overlooking the Bay of Islands.

A stunning 18 hole golf course with fantastic sea views, whether you are looking for a challenge or a relaxed round, Waitangi Golf Club will cater for you.

Visitors are most welcome all year round.

The Queen Mary visits the Bay

The Waitangi Course not only provides an exciting and ever changing challenge to the golfer but also the most tremendous panorama of sea and island views.

Whether playing or caddying, golfers can enjoy vistas of the Bay of Islands and Russell, river and estuary views over Waitangi and Opua and rolling bush and forest views inland over Mount Bledisloe and Puketona.

These views are complemented by well-groomed greens and fairways surrounded by areas of flowering native trees which provide sanctuary for many varieties of native birds.

As many visiting golfers claim, particularly those from overseas, Waitangi is truly millionaire's country for all to enjoy.

In 1932 the Governor General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe and his wife Lady Bledisloe purchased just over one thousand acres of land on the Waitangi Peninsular. They donated it to the inhabitants of New Zealand as a place of historic interest and recreational enjoyment for their benefit and use in perpetuity.

This land is known as the Waitangi National Trust and attracts thousands of New Zealanders and overseas visitors every year to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Waitangi National Trust Board administers and manages this historic land under the terms of the original gift, leasing the golf course to the Waitangi Golf Club.