The Southern Hemisphere
New Zealand & Australia
The long way, and worth every mile.
On New Zealand & Australia
Cape Kidnappers, Te Arai, Barnbougle, Cape Wickham: the trip of a life, and one we know how to shape so the travel disappears into the destination.
Private aviation, coastal lodges, and the sort of long weeks that make the flight a footnote.
From the notebook
No two journeys share an itinerary. These are the places we return to, and the ones we send people to when they trust us.
- Cape KidnappersNew ZealandFairways on knife-edge ridges, four hundred feet above the Pacific.
- Kauri CliffsNew ZealandThe Bay of Islands from every other tee.
- Te Arai LinksNew ZealandTwo new seaside courses, already among the hemisphere's best.
- Jack's PointNew ZealandQueenstown golf beneath the Remarkables. Aptly named range.
- Barnbougle DunesAustraliaTasmania's wild links, worth the extra hop.
- Barnbougle, Lost FarmAustraliaThe sister course some argue is better. The argument is the fun.
- Cape WickhamAustraliaKing Island's edge-of-the-earth stunner.
And more we argue about.
Off the course
- The drinkCentral Otago pinot at the Bannockburn cellar doors, Yarra Valley by driver from Melbourne, and Tasmania's Tamar Valley on the way to Barnbougle.
- The waterMilford Sound by light aircraft, a jet boat up the Shotover, and Bluff oysters in season if the timing is kind.
- The tableGreen-lipped mussels and lamb in New Zealand, Melbourne's laneway restaurants, and coffee that will ruin you for home.
- For the non-playersLodge spas with absurd views, a Māori cultural day in Rotorua, and MONA in Hobart, the strangest great museum in the world.
A week here, roughly
Ten days minimum, honestly. New Zealand north to south with the cliff-top rounds early, Queenstown for the finale. Or Tasmania's links with a Melbourne bookend for the food. We manage every internal flight and transfer. You manage the jet lag with a schedule built to beat it.
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