Te Arai Links, North Course

The Te Arai team has called upon Tom Doak’s artistry to design Te Arai’s North Course, which will begin and finish on the ocean, but the inland stretch has a unique appeal. The system utilizes various landforms; cavernous natural bunkers, giant cliffs, and beachfront. The most dramatic holes on the course will be the 11th and 13th. The former is a long par-5 with an elevated green and a ‘whirlpool’ hazard to the right, some seven meters below the green. The 13th is a long par-4 with its green at the edge of a huge natural bunker, so that second shots have to be played over the sand or safely around to the left. It’s a hole very reminiscent of Pine Valley in New Jersey, and indeed