The Poverty Bay Golf Club was instituted in April of 1893 and was the 5th golf club to be established in New Zealand and the second in the North Island. This 122-year-old links course is one of New Zealand's golfing treasures. Nationally ranked, the Poverty Bay Golf Club is often host to championship events. The narrow, undulating fairways and large, well bunkered greens are praised by the country's top golfers.

Poverty Bay is a links-styled golf course built over an old system of sand dunes near the ocean at Awapuni on the south-western edge of the city of Gisborne. Most of the holes run parallel to the nearby beach, following the troughs of former dunes. Free draining sandy soils allow play in even very wet weather. Dry summers produce long runs. Gisborne’s two prevailing winds are north-westerly (warm and dry) and southerly (cold and wet), so the wind direction on the course can be completely about face from one day to the next. The greens are amongst the best in New Zealand. The fairways are sprinklered and have an undulating topography. Strategic areas of uncontrolled rough give the course its reputation as a links. Although a provincial course, Poverty Bay is extremely highly regarded and the venue of several national tournaments.

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