COMING SOON
Te Arai Links With a course from Coore & Crenshaw opening this fall and one from Tom Doak coming next year, New Zealand’s Te Arai Links looks to be a dream made real
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ow long is the new Coore & Crenshaw South Course at Te Arai Links? “We don’t care, we’ve never asked,” says Jim Rohrstaff of Legacy Partners, which also developed the lauded Tara Iti just up the road on New Zealand’s North Island. Though the yardage is, in fact, available, it wasn’t the point, Rohrstaff says. “We told the architects, ‘One: Give us best course in the world on this piece of property. Two: make it fair and fun. And three: we want good pace of play. Within that, you’re the best architects in the world, go and do your thing.’” That [refreshing] attitude—of “hire the best and let them get on with it”—has added yet another stunner to an already stunning golf landscape, and Doak’s North Course is shaping up to be just as incredible. With homesites and top-end lodging under construction, and with dining and a cocktail-friendly 2.5-acre putting green on offer, we’re counting the days until the ribbon is cut.
