Te Arai Links: South Course
Tomarata, Auckland, New Zealand • Private
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Nick Wall
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Ricky Robinson
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Gary Lisbon/Courtesy of the club
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Ricky Robinson/Courtesy of the club
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Ricky Robinson
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Ricky Robinson
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Ricky Robinson/Courtesy of the club
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Overview
The courses at Te Arai are cousins of Tara Iti, a private course that jumped to No. 2 in the ranking shortly after it opened in 2015 (it’s currently seventh). The two public resort courses are situated roughly five miles to the south along the same long stretch of Pacific beach, where Bill Coore’s figure-eight routing of the spellbinding South Course begins in a forest behind a wall of inland sand dunes before exploding onto the oceanfront headlands stringing parts or all of 10 tumbling, rambling holes along the sea.
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