South Island
Unpopulated until Maori arrived around 500 years ago, European (and Chinese) people started arriving in numbers around the time of the gold rushes of the 1860s, and it is soon after this that golf arrived on the island, with the Otago Golf Club in Dunedin being the first, established in 1871. Nowadays, the undoubted hub of quality golf courses is Queenstown – our top four South Island courses are all to be found near this stunning lakeside destination.
Jack's Point
South Island, New Zealand
Jack's Point
The golf course at Jack’s Point is nestled between 2,300 vertical metres of the saw-toothed, razorback Remarkables mountain range and the majestic Lake Wakatipu to the east...
Arrowtown Golf Club
South Island, New Zealand
Arrowtown Golf Club
The course at Arrowtown Golf Club is a little masterpiece with fairways threaded through tiny valleys, between boulders, or over gorges with greens nestling snugly into hillsides.
The Hills Golf Club (Championship)
South Island, New Zealand
The Hills Golf Club (Championship)
The Hills is billed as New Zealand’s most exclusive golf club and it’s located in the former gold mining town of Arrowtown. It therefore seems appropriate that the course is owned and operated by a jeweller.
Millbrook Resort (Coronet)
South Island, New Zealand
Millbrook Resort (Coronet)
Whilst the original Remarkables course at Millbrook followed rather clean, well manicured lines, the Coronet 18 blends more with the natural rugged features of this rather beautiful corner of the planet – schist outcrops, big undulations, and low-lying wetlands.
Clearwater
South Island, New Zealand
Clearwater
Designed by John Darby and Bob Charles, Clearwater Golf Club hosted the New Zealand Open championship in 2011 and 2012.
Christchurch
South Island, New Zealand
Christchurch
The Christchurch Golf Club has a history stretching back to 1873 and according to our records it's the second oldest golf club in New Zealand.
Millbrook Resort (Remarkables)
South Island, New Zealand
Millbrook Resort (Remarkables)
Created by John Darby and Bob Charles, the course at the Millbrook Resort opened in 1992 – seven years before its co-designer, the 1963 Open Champion, was knighted.
Chisholm Links
South Island, New Zealand
Chisholm Links
Fourteen holes at Chisholm Links Golf Club sit amongst the dunes behind St Kilda Beach, with the stretch from 8 to 11 climbing up to a magnificent headland wedged between two beaches.
Fable Terrace Downs Resort
South Island, New Zealand
Fable Terrace Downs Resort
The 550 acres of the Terrace Downs Resort are set in the foothills of the Southern Alps, an hour’s drive from Christchurch, on the edge of the Canterbury Plains.
