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Queenstown and Central Otago sit at the heart of South Island golf — Jack's Point, Millbrook, The Hills, and Arrowtown deliver world-class parkland golf amid the alpine drama of the Southern Alps and Lake Wakatipu.

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🇳🇿 South Island, New Zealand

Arrowtown Golf Club

Location
Arrowtown, Central Otago
Opened
1930s (current 18-hole layout 1997)
Designer
Original layout 1930s, expanded 1990s
Rankings
#8 in New Zealand, top100golfcourse.com

Arrowtown Golf Club is one of the great characterful members' clubs in New Zealand — a rugged 18-hole layout wedged between the Arrow River gorge and the historic gold-mining village of Arrowtown, twenty minutes from Queenstown. The course tumbles through mature schist tors, willow-lined riverbanks, and open Central Otago tussock, with dramatic elevation changes on almost every hole and views back to the Remarkables. Unpretentious, walkable, and often described as the "hidden gem" of Central Otago, Arrowtown consistently punches above its weight in the New Zealand rankings.

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🇳🇿 South Island, New Zealand

Jack's Point

Location
Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown
Opened
2008
Designer
John Darby
Events
New Zealand Open co-host
Rankings
#9 in New Zealand, top100golfcourse.com

Jack's Point is one of the most spectacularly sited golf courses in the world — a John Darby design draped along the eastern shore of Lake Wakatipu, directly beneath the jagged peaks of the Remarkables. The course tumbles through tussock, wetlands, and lakeside cliff-tops, with the par-4 7th (a driveable heroic tee shot across the lake edge) and the par-3 8th (played from a lakeside tee to a green cut into the cliff) among the most photographed holes in New Zealand. Genuine championship credentials and once-in-a-lifetime scenery make it a required stop on any Queenstown golf itinerary.

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The Hills

Location
Arrowtown, Central Otago
Opened
2007
Designer
Sir John Turner (Darby Partners)
Events
New Zealand Open (co-host, from 2014)
Rankings
#11 in New Zealand, top100golfcourse.com

The Hills is Sir Michael Hill's private members' club just outside Arrowtown, and the annual host of the New Zealand Open — a joint DP World / PGA Tour of Australasia event contested here since 2014. Sir John Turner's design uses the dramatic natural landform of a former deer farm, with 90 metres of elevation change, exposed schist outcrops, and the Speargrass Creek weaving through the course. The Hills' most distinctive feature is its extraordinary collection of large-scale sculpture, dotted through the course as part of Sir Michael's private collection.

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🇳🇿 South Island, New Zealand

Millbrook Resort

Location
Arrowtown, Central Otago
Opened
1993 (Peak nine: 2020)
Designer
Sir Bob Charles (Arrow/Coronet/Remarkables), Peter Thomson (Peak)
Events
New Zealand Open (primary co-host, from 2014)
Rankings
#14 in New Zealand, top100golfcourse.com

Millbrook Resort is a 36-hole resort golf property set on the historic Brown's Farm estate outside Arrowtown, with panoramic views of the Remarkables and Coronet Peak. The original Sir Bob Charles-designed 27 holes (Arrow, Coronet, and Remarkables nines) have been complemented by the newer Peter Thomson-designed Peak nine, and Millbrook is the primary co-host of the New Zealand Open. The resort setting — with award-winning restaurants, spa, and villa accommodation — makes it a natural anchor for a Queenstown golf trip.

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