Dr. Alister MacKenzie's only NZ design
Titirangi GC hosted the 2022 MacKenzie Gathering in November and this was the primary reason for visiting New Zealand.
Given the tournament setting, I did not carry a camera and all photos bar a handful of those shared by Director of Golf, Doug White are taken using my Samsung Galaxy S21.
Redesigned in 1927 by the Good Doctor, the course was thoroughly enjoyable and demanding. It played quite long with a typical variety of long and short par 4s. The par 3s were all memorable and yielded no easy pars.
As expected, the green complexes and bunkering were key features. Recent works by Cunnin’ Golf have faithfully restored much of MacKenzie’s original design work which was found and is proudly displayed in the clubhouse.
1st tee MacKenzie Gathering
1st green
2nd fairway
2nd fairway
3rd tee
3rd fairway
4th green
5th fairway
5th Green
5th green
6th fairway
7th green
7th green
8th fairway
8th green
9th green
10th Green with 11th (redan) in the background
11th tee
12th fairway
13th fairway
13th fairway
13th green
14th green
15th tee
15th green
16th green
17th green
18th green
Behind 18th
Cork GC 2022 MacKenzie Team
L-R: P. Dooley, J. MacCarthy, M. O'Sullivan, A. McKnight, J. Twohig, J. Cahill, J. O' Herlihy, M. DeVries
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