Hawera
The Hawera Golf Club’s Fairfield Links is situated in light rolling sand dune country on top of 100 metre coastal cliffs two miles directly south of Hawera on Fairfield Road. This road starts by the Hawera Fire Station on State Highway 3 and finishes at the Fairfield Links.
The course has spectacular views of the South Taranaki Bight and Tasman sea complemented by a vista extending over the ring plain and up to Mt Egmont. Parts of the course are very open allowing big hitters to let loose but the mostly narrow crater type greens demand accuracy with approach shots especially in windy conditions.
Pohutukawa trees play a big part in the course with strategic planting catching wayward shots as do the twelve bunkers on the mainly inland part of the course. Grass bunkers capture other shots along the coastal holes. The middle of the course has two par fives and a par three on undulating ground and bounded by trees between fairways and out of bounds on both sides. This area is notorious for turning a brilliant round into a mediocre one. The last six holes consisting of the longest par four on the course, a blind dogleg right, a blind dogleg left, a crater par three and two slight dogleg fours are arguably the most difficult finishing holes in Taranaki.
Hawera settled at its current location in the 1930s after many years at
various places around the outskirts of town and celebrated its Centennial
Year in 2003.
Club Information
Fairfield Road, Hawera
Phone: (06) 278 5828
DB.EE.NEWELL@xtra.co.nz
Visit our website at www.geocities.com/nolzys2003/HAWERAGOLFCLUB
