| Tour Name | New Zealand Golf Tour 2027 |
| Departure Date | Tuesday, November 23, 2027 |
| End Date | Monday, December 6, 2027 |
| Nights | 13 |
| Start Point | Napier Airport (NPE) |
| End Point | Kerikeri (KKE) |
| Availability | 6 Places Left |
| Next Departure | 2028 – TBA |
| Payment Currencies | AUD, USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, NZD |
Voyages.golf invites you to discover the best of New Zealand as we tour the North Island from 23 November – 06 December 2027. New Zealand holds a rare concentration of world-ranked golf in a country you can cross in a morning, and this is our flagship North Island journey: thirteen nights, seven rounds, and a maximum of twenty players. We cap the group deliberately: small enough for a private coach, a single dinner table and tee times that flow without a queue; large enough to play with different people over the trip. This is a small-group golf holiday designed to be enjoyed with a small group of likeminded people.
The tour opens in Hawke’s Bay with three nights at Porters in Napier, a welcome dinner and drinks, and a round at Cape Kidnappers — the cliff-top spectacle where fairways run out over the Pacific on fingers of ridgeline. Between rounds there’s a private tour and tasting at Craggy Range, one of the region’s benchmark wineries.
From there we head inland to Lake Taupo for three nights at the Hilton, and the finest golf on the volcanic plateau. The Kinloch Club is Jack Nicklaus’s links-inspired design above the lake, all rumpled fairways and deep, dramatic bunkering. Wairakei Golf + Sanctuary is its parkland counterpoint, played inside a predator-free reserve where native birdsong is part of the round. An afternoon cruise on Lake Taupo fills the space between. Two nights at The Clements in Cambridge bring Waikato River country and a round at Tieke Golf Estate, one of New Zealand’s most talked-about newer courses, alongside a behind-the-scenes tour of Hobbiton with banquet lunch in the Shire. Then the dunes. Three nights on site at Te Arai, north of Auckland, and back-to-back rounds on two of the most celebrated new links in world golf: the South Course by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, and the North Course by Tom Doak, played from the same doorstep the following day. The tour finishes in Northland. We travel up through the Bay of Islands with a sightseeing day en route to Paihia, where two nights at Paihia Beach Resort bookend a round at Kauri Cliffs, high above the water, with the Cavalli Islands on the horizon.
Throughout, our Voyages.golf hosts travel with the group, handling the tee sheet, the transfers, the porterage and the small things you shouldn’t have to think about on holiday. Private coach transport runs from the arrival transfer in Napier to the departure transfer to Auckland or your flight out of Kerikeri, breakfast is included daily, and every player receives a premium branded travel kit and access to our exclusive Tour App. Non-golfing partners are welcome and well looked after throughout with a dedicated itinerary.
For those not ready to fly home, the tour extends south. Six nights in a Superior Studio at Millbrook Resort in Queenstown, with a one-way flight from Kerikeri and all transfers handled, plus three more rounds: Millbrook Coronet, Jack’s Point, and — conditions and opening date permitting — Glendhu Bay, the new Tom Doak layout on the shores of Lake Wanaka, with an alternative course of equal standing confirmed ahead of departure if it isn’t open in time. Add a winery visit with tasting and lunch, the Shotover Jet, welcome drinks on arrival and a farewell dinner, and it’s the ideal way to close out a trip to New Zealand.
13 nights’ accommodation with daily breakfast:
7 Rounds of Golf with shared carts*
Sightseeing & experiences
Meals
Transport
Hosting
Non-Golfer’s alternative activities:
ACCOMMODATION
Porters Boutique Hotel, Napier — 3 nights
A boutique hotel in the heart of Napier’s Art Deco quarter, and one of the best rooms in Hawke’s Bay. Contemporary design, an in-house restaurant and bar, and a walkable location among the region’s cafés and galleries — an easy base for Cape Kidnappers and the Craggy Range winery visit.
Hilton Lake Taupo — 3 nights
Set on a ridge above the lake, with heritage bones dating to the original Terraces Hotel and a modern wing alongside. Lake views, on-site dining, thermal pools and spa facilities, and a short run to both The Kinloch Club and Wairakei Golf + Sanctuary.
The Clements, Cambridge — 2 nights
A boutique hotel in Cambridge, the heart of New Zealand’s thoroughbred country and a genuinely handsome town. Well positioned for Tieke Golf Estate and for the Hobbiton tour, with the Waikato countryside on the doorstep.
Te Arai — 3 nights
On-site accommodation at Te Arai, which is the whole point of three nights here: the North and South courses are both a walk away, with no travel between two of the tour’s best rounds. Coastal, quiet, and built around the golf.
Paihia Beach Resort — 2 nights
A boutique waterfront resort on Paihia’s beachfront, looking straight out over the Bay of Islands. Spa facilities, on-site dining, and a location that puts the farewell dinner and the Kauri Cliffs round within easy reach.
Millbrook Resort, Superior Studio — 6 nights (Queenstown extension)
A 500-acre golf and spa resort in the Wakatipu Basin near Arrowtown, framed by the Remarkables. Multiple restaurants, an award-winning spa, and the Coronet course on site — one of the South Island’s great places to end a trip.
Cape Kidnappers — Tom Doak, 2004
Doak’s first New Zealand course, and still one of his most recognisable. Set on a working sheep station above Hawke’s Bay, with fairways that run out along ridges some 400 feet above the water before narrowing to almost nothing. The back nine along the ridgeline is the shot every golfer has seen from the air; the par-5 15th is regularly named among the best holes in the world.
Wairakei Golf + Sanctuary — Commander John Harris with Michael Wolveridge and Peter Thomson, 1970
Harris, one of England’s most travelled architects, whose family had a hand in Moor Park, Wentworth and Sunningdale, partnered with Michael Wolveridge and five-time Open champion Peter Thomson to build New Zealand’s first internationally acclaimed golf course. Rolling parkland over 180 hectares, more than 100 bunkers, and — since a predator-proof fence went up in 2011 — a genuine wildlife sanctuary. Kiwi, takahē and fallow deer are part of the round. Wairakei is an absolute gem.
The Kinloch Club — Jack Nicklaus, 2007
Nicklaus’s only Signature design in New Zealand, a par 72 stretching to 7,365 yards with something close to 172 bunkers. An inland links cut from the hills above Lake Taupō — fescue, heather and fast, sloping greens. Asked at the opening which was the signature hole, Nicklaus answered: all of them.
Tieke Golf Estate — Brett Thomson and Phil Tataurangi, 2022
A complete redesign of the Lochiel course, established in 1938 and for decades maintained by sheep and volunteers, on the banks of the Waikato River. Thomson and Tataurangi removed 1,000 trees to expose sandy soils that had lain dormant beneath the turf for 25,000 years. The result is fescue turf and bent grass greens that reward a running ball — links golf more than 50km from the nearest beach.
Te Arai Links, South Course — Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, 2022
Opened October 2022 and ranked 79th on Golf Magazine’s 25/26 World Top 100. Sixteen of the eighteen holes carry ocean views. Coore and Crenshaw were given first pick of the land and took most of the ocean frontage — a wide, generous course built for enjoyment rather than punishment
Te Arai Links, North Course — Tom Doak, 2023
Opened October 2023, debuting at 98th on Golf Magazine’s 25/26 World Top 100. Deliberately the harder, edgier counterpoint: less ocean frontage, but big dunes, pure sand and some of the most severe greens you’ll putt on anywhere. Doak from the same hand as neighbouring Tara Iti.
Kauri Cliffs — David Harman, 2000
Harman gave two years of his life to the design and construction, and the course opened in February 2000. The course that started New Zealand’s modern golf boom, developed by Julian Robertson before he built Cape Kidnappers. Six holes are played directly along the cliffs, with the Cavalli Islands on the horizon.
Millbrook Resort, Coronet Course — Greg Turner and Scott Macpherson, 2010 and 2021
The original Coronet nine opened in 2010 and was extended to a full 18 in 2021, after Millbrook purchased the neighbouring Dalgliesh Farm. Where the older Remarkables course follows clean, manicured lines, the Coronet 18 works with the rugged features of the basin — schist outcrops and big undulations. Widely considered the stronger of Millbrook’s two eighteens, and the resort has hosted the New Zealand Open since 2014.
Jack’s Point — John Darby, 2008
Laid out beneath the Remarkables on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, and one of the most photographed courses in the country. A tough but playable test where every hole takes in either the mountains or the lake. It won the IAGTO Sustainability Award for Nature Protection in 2019.
Glendhu — John Darby, opening 2026 (subject to confirmation)
An 18-hole course on the shores of Lake Wānaka, at the gateway to the Motatapu and Matukituki valleys, surrounded by more than 2,000 hectares of preserved open space. A fifteen-year project from Darby Partners — the team behind Jack’s Point, The Hills and Millbrook — the course runs to roughly 6,000 metres across 100 hectares, on land the McRae family have farmed since the 1960s. Every hole carries a view of the lake or the mountains. Included subject to opening; an alternative of equal standing will be confirmed if timing doesn’t allow.
Craggy Range Winery, Hawke’s Bay
A private tour and tasting at one of New Zealand’s benchmark wineries, set beneath the sheer face of Te Mata Peak in the Tukituki Valley. Craggy Range is a single-vineyard producer, which means the tasting is a lesson in how much a few kilometres of Hawke’s Bay soil changes what ends up in the glass — Gimblett Gravels syrah and cabernet from the old riverbed, sauvignon blanc from Martinborough. The estate itself is worth the visit regardless: cellar door, restaurant, and the peak rising straight up behind it.
Lake Taupō Afternoon Cruise
Taupō is a caldera — the water sits in the crater of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, and it’s the size of Singapore. The afternoon cruise takes you out from the township across water that is startlingly clear, with the Central Plateau volcanoes on the southern horizon on a good day. The turning point for most boats is the Ngātoroirangi Māori rock carvings, a ten-metre likeness carved into the cliff face in the late 1970s and reachable only by water. A drink in hand, an afternoon off your feet, and the best view of the region you’ll get without a helicopter.
Hobbiton Behind-the-Scenes Tour with Banquet Lunch
Most visitors do the standard walk-through. The behind-the-scenes version goes further, into how the set was actually built and dressed — the forced-perspective tricks used to make hobbits and men share a frame, the hobbit holes constructed at different scales for the same reason, the fruit trees pinned with artificial leaves for continuity. The set sits on a working sheep farm in the Waikato and is now permanently maintained, so what you’re walking through is the real thing rather than a reconstruction.
Lunch is a banquet at the Green Dragon Inn — a proper spread on long tables, served the way the films suggest it should be, with the inn’s own ale and cider on offer. It runs long, which is the point. Even the sceptics in the group tend to come out of this one converted.
Bay of Islands Sightseeing, En Route to Paihia
The run north from Te Arai into Northland is a sightseeing day in its own right rather than a transfer. The Bay of Islands is 144 islands scattered across sheltered subtropical water, and it’s also where modern New Zealand effectively began — Waitangi, where the founding treaty between Māori and the Crown was signed in 1840, sits directly across the water from Paihia, and Russell across the bay was the country’s first capital and, briefly, its most notorious port town. The landscape shifts noticeably on the drive: pasture gives way to pōhutukawa, mangrove inlets and headlands, and the temperature climbs a few degrees.
Central Otago Winery Visit with Tasting and Lunch
Central Otago is the southernmost commercial wine region in the world, and the extremity is the point — hot days, cold nights and a short, sharp growing season produce a pinot noir with a concentration you don’t find further north. Lunch and a tasting at an estate in the Gibbston or Bannockburn area, with the schist hills and terraces of the Kawarau Gorge around you.
Shotover Jet
The only operator permitted to run the Shotover River canyons, and it has been going since 1965. Jet boats at speed through rock walls a few metres apart, with the 360-degree spins that made it famous. It takes about half an hour and it’s the most fun you’ll have with your clothes on in Queenstown — bracing, loud, and a good story for the farewell dinner.
| Package | NZD $ | AUD – $ | USD – $ | GBP – £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Tour – 23 Nov – 06 December | ||||
| Double Occupancy – Golfer | $ 16,998 pp | $ 14,398 pp | $ 10,398 pp | £ 7,554 pp |
| Single Occupancy – Golfer | $ 20,998 pp | $ 17,794 pp | $ 12,720 pp | £ 9,339 pp |
| Double Occupancy – Non-golfer | $ 15,498 pp | $ 13,139 pp | $ 9,390 pp | £ 6,890 pp |
| QUEENSTOWN POST-TOUR 06 – 12 DECEMBER | ||||
| Double Occupancy – Golfer | $ 5,898 pp | $ 4,998 pp | $ 3,590 pp | £ 2,690 pp |
| Single Occupancy – Golfer | $ 7,598 pp | $ 6,430 pp | $ 4,598 pp | £ 3,398 pp |
| Double Occupancy – Non-golfer | $ 5,498 pp | $ 4,659 pp | $ 3,398 pp | £ 2,498 pp |
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