Golf at the doorstep — and, from 2027, on the world stage.
WAINUI, AUCKLAND
O'Grady Lodge borders the fairways of Wainui Golf Course, which hosts the New Zealand Women's Open from 2027 through 2030.
The fairways run along our boundary.
GOLF AT THE DOOR STEP
You can see them from the garden. The clubhouse and first tee are a 1.1km drive away, three minutes door to door. Wainui is an 18-hole championship course laid through the natural contours of the valley, with the Orchard 9 short course and driving range open seven days a week alongside it. Green fees are open to visiting golfers — no membership required, just a tee time.
We're 30 minutes north of Auckland city, so it's an easy drive in, round on the course, and back to the Lodge for the afternoon.
18
CHAMPIONSHIP HOLES
5 min
TO THE FIRST TEE
30 min
NORTH OF THE CITY
THE NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S OPEN · 2027–2030
The course everyone's about to be watching.
The New Zealand Women's Open returns after a ten-year absence, and Wainui Golf Course is hosting it: the first of a four-year agreement that runs the tournament through to 2030. Dame Lydia Ko headlines the return field, co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, broadcast to dozens of countries.
For guests, that means a rare kind of proximity: walk the fairway you can see from your balcony, then watch the same holes on TV.
Families, sponsors and touring golf fans booking around tournament week will find us closer than anywhere in Auckland. Book early for March each year through 2030 — our four rooms and the Whole Wing sell out fast around it.
TOURNAMENT WEEK 2027
16 March
WELCOME EVENT
17 March
PRO-AM
18-21 March
CHAMPIONSHIP
Above the 18th, five minutes from your room.
DINNER AT THE VIEW
Wainui's own clubhouse restaurant, The View, sits above the 18th with the kind of outlook its name promises — high ceilings, glass, and the whole course rolling out below.
It runs an all-day menu, from cabinet food and bar snacks through to an evening plate, so it works equally well for a casual lunch after your round or a dinner out without leaving Wainui.
Te Arai Links, an hour up the coast.
THE DAY TRIP
Two pure links courses built into the dunes above the Tasman — one of the most talked-about golf destinations in the world right now. Both opened within the last few years, and both are drawing golfers from well beyond New Zealand to play them back to back.
It's a full day out — the drive alone is part of it, coastal road most of the way.. Guests staying more than a couple of nights use it as the second round: Wainui on your doorstep, Te Arai as the trip you tell people about afterward.
Photo Credit: Ricky Robinson
Four or more? Take the Whole Wing.
BRING THE GROUP
Its own private entrance, the Great Lounge for the evening, four ensuites — each with a double spa bath to soak the legs after eighteen holes — and space to store clubs and wet weather gear out of the way. $1,850 a night, two-night minimum, sleeps eight.
Smaller groups or couples travelling together can also book individual rooms across our four suites, each with its own balcony or patio and the same self-check-in — so there's no reception desk between the eighteenth green and a shower.
