We visited and had lunch watching the 18th being played but didn't have time for a round. Next time! Does look good.No Paraparaumu?
From golf club atlas: (read this after I got home obviously)
The best example of the Kiwi golf culture, where the expense of the game is within reach for all over this special, rumpled land. Mercifully, the task to tease holes from this dunescape fell to Alex Russell - and his light touch remains a marvel to this day. Anyone who goes to New Zealand and doesn't play here doesn't know what he/she is doing.