CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE

WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHAMPIONS.

Clearwater Golf Club has come a long way in a short time and it is hard to imagine that less than two decades ago there were no beautifully manicured greens and fairways, no buildings and no water to be seen.

John Darby set about designing a championship course of which Christchurch and New Zealand could be proud and he enlisted the help of the legendary golfer Sir Bob Charles to turn his vision into reality.

It was always the dream to create a course that would test some of the world’s top players, and in an incredibly short period of time Clearwater has achieved this aim.

Jason Dufner, Bubba Watson, Lucas Glover, Jason Day and Jimmy Walker are five of the golfers to have played in professional championships here. None were household names at the time as they developed their games on the Nationwide Tour, but we can now say proudly that five future men's international Major champions have enjoyed the challenge posed by Christchurch’s most progressive golf club.

We have also proudly hosted New Zealand's Michael Campbell, US Open Champion 2005, most recently at the 2011 BMW NZ Open.

Clearwater is also extremely proud to have been the home of the ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open from 2013 until 2016, the latest of many prestigious championships it has hosted since our opening in 2002.

During the 2015 ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open record crowds watched World Number 1 Lydia Ko claim the national title for her second time and many will remember the remarkable record-breaking 61 she recorded in her second round.

What made that day even more special was that Ko’s playing partners produced some pretty special golf too. England’s Charley Hull (Europes number 1 player) carded a 64 and Su-Hyun Oh of Australia, fresh off winning the Australian Ladies Masters the week before, shot 66. The three-ball recorded an incredible 25 under par between them, something we will possibly never see again.

Member or guest, come and make your own history and experience the best that New Zealand golf has to offer.