Wainui 18
The 18-hole championship course is set in an iconic New Zealand rural back drop. The course is cut through rolling hills, natural water ways and is framed by 80-year-old statement pines and precise bunkering.
This Puddicombe designed course offers golfers of all levels pristine golf surfaces, five tee deck options, varied shot options from the tee with multiple layup areas all on sand capped fairways.
Wainui is a world class facility a world away and only 20 minutes from downtown Auckland.
Hole by Hole guide to Wainui 18
The 18-hole championship course is set in an iconic New Zealand rural back drop. The course is cut through rolling hills, natural water ways and is framed by 80-year-old statement pines and precise bunkering.
This Puddicombe designed course offers golfers of all levels pristine golf surfaces, five tee deck options, varied shot options from the tee with multiple layup areas all on sand capped fairways.
Wainui is a world class facility a world away and only 20 minutes from downtown Auckland.
Hole by Hole guide to Wainui 18
Mike Duncumb – Wainui Head Professional
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Mike Duncumb plays an approach shot to the Par 4 WAINUI Hole #15
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Like all great courses Wainui gives you many different shot options,
whether it be from the tee, laying up on one of our challenging par fives
or playing from one of the green side swales.
Artwork designed and supplied by Ritchie Golf
Offers a straight away downhill Par 4 with a generous landing area.
A drive just short of the right hand side fairway bunker offers the best
angle into the green. Careful club selection for your second will stop the ball
on a narrow green sloping from front to back.
With an undulating fairway and a hazard up the entire left hand side,
there is a premium on an accurate tee shot aimed down the right hand side.
The first of our par threes is a downhill shot to a green protected by
swales and run off areas both front right and long left.
Any shot left short of the green but online has a good chance of running
aboard favouring the left hand side.
This par five offers a decision off the tee, try and carry the large
fairway bunker on the left hand side and play your second from the upper level,
or play safe to right but be left with a blind second shot.
There are fairway bunkers positioned up the right hand side to catch
second and third shots drifting right. The large green is guarded by a front
bunker and a large run off at the back of the green.
A straight away hole with two left hand side fairway bunkers and a bank
on the right hand side.
A tee shot positioned short of the bunkers on the left, leaves a
mid-iron to the green.
WAINUI Hole #6 – Par 5
From tee there are fairway bunkers either side of the fairway, a
straight tee shot will kick forward over the brow of the hill, leaving two
options.
Either a mid-iron layup down the left hand side to open up the green or
have a go in two but a bunker 50 metres out from the green and two swales and
run off areas will leave challenging shots if out of position.
Dogleg left, club selection is important off this tee,
Tee shots must favour the left side and get as close to the end of the
fairway as possible.
Water must be carried to land a ball on this green. There is a bunker
positioned front middle which needs to be avoided.
Behind the greens falls away to a hazard.
This hole is a dogleg right, with fairway bunkering on the corner of the
dogleg and a lake on the left hand side.
The ideal line off the tee is at the power pole behind the green, best
to err to the left side as the rough is very heavy to the right.
Second shot needs precise distance control to keep the ball on the
correct side of the ridge that runs through the green.
WAINUI Hole #11 – Par 3
This par 3 plays downhill so club selection is vital. A hazard borders
the hole to the left so favouring the right side is always safest.
The green has a ridge running through the middle, being on the
right side of it will lead to an easier putt.
Proving to be the most difficult hole on the course demands an accurate
tee shot to the left of the large pine tree that sits on the right side of the
fairway.
After the tee shot leaves an approach from 150-200m to the green. The
green has a ridge running across the middle and a bunker short left.
Accuracy is key here on all three shots, a hazard up the entire left
side of the hole means centre right on the tee shot is recommended.
The second shot demands even more focus as the out of bounds right comes
into play. Once in position it leaves a short iron to a table top green.
This tee shot requires the ball to be moved right to left. Good tee
shots will benefit from additional 40 metres of run.
The second shot requires careful thought as to where you are going to
lay up.
Hazards on both sides mean an accurate shot is required. The third shot
can be anything from 5 iron through to sand wedge, the longer the third the
more the trees guarding the green come into play. A fairly level green with a
ridge running across the green makes for a good birdie opportunity.
Accuracy rather than length is vital; a well-positioned tee shot will
leave an approach of 100 metres to a green with two swales.
The green is difficult to putt on so staying below the hole will give you
the best opportunity to make a birdie.
The tee shot is semi blind so the line is the centre of the clubhouse in
the distance.
A hazard left and long rough on the right means an accurate tee shot is
required. The green is offset to the right so distance control is vital for the
approach shot.
A downhill par 3 that plays one club shorter than the distance suggests.
The only miss to avoid is long which falls away to a water hazard. The
green is mostly flat with subtle slopes.
A large lake in front of the tee needs to be avoided. The fairway is
very generous with fairway bunkers used to aim at.
The green is elevated and has two distinct levels. If you can get the
ball on the right level a birdie is on offer.
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