Taranaki Golf

🏌️ NGAMOTU. FITZROY. WESTOWN.
If you’re a member of one of these clubs… why wouldn’t you enter? 👀
Play all three courses over a two-month period, send us your scores and you could WIN BIG! 🏆🔥
⛳ Three great courses
🏌️ Plenty of chances to improve your score
🏆 One Bayleys Challenge – City Central champion!
And remember — you don’t need to wait for a great round. Send in your scores and then go back out and beat them!
👉 Head to the Taranaki Golf website, check out THE BAYLEYS CHALLENGE and GET IN!
Your home course is already one down… two to go! 😎

👍 BIG THUMBS UP! 👍
A huge congratulations to Lencie Thompson from Urenui Golf Club, winner of the 2026 National Aotearoa Cup! 🏆⛳

What a fantastic achievement on the national stage and a very proud moment for Lencie, Urenui and Taranaki Golf.

Well done, Lencie — National Champion has a pretty good ring to it! 👏👏

🏆 THE TROPHIES ARE READY… ARE YOU? 🏆

The five Bayleys Challenge regional trophies are here, pictured with Bayleys Regional General Manager Luke Conroy.

Five regions. Five trophies. Five chances for bragging rights. 👀⛳

But first up… NORTHERN EXPOSURE! 🌊

The first challenge finishes 31 August, so there’s still time to get out there, improve those nett scores and make a late charge.

🔥 Who will be the first name on a Bayleys Challenge trophy?

One trophy. Who wants it? 🏆

Home Club: New Plymouth
Age: 19

1. How did you first get involved with golf?
I got into golf from going ball hunting with my Poppa.

2. What is your favourite golf course?
Wairakei.

3. What’s the best thing about golf?
Brings good and bad moments. Teaches you a lot more than just golf.

4. Tell me what you want to achieve in golf?
Not really too sure yet! Will see how far the new job can take me and go with the flow.

5. What do people perhaps not realise about you?
I do a lot of other sports as well.

6. What would you say to someone who is thinking of playing golf?
Get out there with the boys, good laugh!

7. Favourite hole at your club — and why?
Hole 14 for sure, mean view of the waves and ocean.

8. Favourite golf memory?
2025 Paraparaumu eagles comp, shot -7 and won by 5 shots

9. Who would be your dream fourball?
Dillin Plimmer, Alex Brooke, JVP and John Daly. Nothing would beat that!

10. What’s your go-to club in the bag?
Driver.

11. What ball do you use?
Whatever I can find in the trees.

12. What music do you listen to?
Bit of everything.

13. What’s the best book you have read?
I don’t read books.

14. Best advice you have been given and by whom?
Look for the penny underneath the ball after the swing. By Poppa.

Taranaki local does something amazing 🤩

⛳️ $10,000 SHOT

A Taranaki local’s family getaway to Taupō has ended with an unexpected $10,000 payday.

Bruce Taylor decided to try his luck at a popular lakefront attraction — and it paid off in spectacular fashion.

Read the full story below 👇

Get in fast as these spots will be limited!

First round of men’s pennants was completed in the weekend.
Next round is on the 29th August.

Home Club: Westown
Age: 16

1. How did you first get involved with golf?
My grandad taught me.

2. What is your favourite golf course?
Paraparaumu.

3. What’s the best thing about golf?
There’s always something new to learn

4. Tell me what you want to achieve in golf?
To hopefully go pro one day

5. What do people perhaps not realise about you?
That I’m good at chess

6. What would you say to someone who is thinking of playing golf?
You should definitely try, even though you won’t be great at it to start with.

7. Favourite hole at your club — and why?
9th because I had an albatross on it

8. Favourite golf memory?
Hole in one at junior Interprovincials

9. Who would be your dream fourball?
Rory McIlroy, Adam Sandler, Ryan Fox

10. What’s your go-to club in the bag?
60-degree wedge

11. What ball do you use?
Titleist pro v1

12. What music do you listen to?
Pop rockish music

13. What’s the best book you have read?
Inheritance games series

14. Best advice you have been given and by whom?
Unflappable is unstoppable- my mum.

⛳ WE’RE HIRING – FUTURES TARANAKI MANAGER

Want to help shape the future of junior golf in Taranaki?

Taranaki Golf works alongside 18 clubs across the region to grow the game and create great golfing opportunities.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working with young people, connects easily with others and can make things happen.

Your job? Help more young people discover golf, enjoy golf and keep playing golf.

🏌️ 10–20 hours per week
🏠 Flexible – work from home, our Fitzroy office or out across Taranaki
⛳ Plenty of time out at clubs, schools and on the golf course

Interested?
Send your CV and a short cover letter telling us why you'd be a great fit.
📅 Applications close 7 September
📧 [email protected]
Questions? Contact Peter Harold, CEO – Taranaki Golf.

Come and help us make golf in Taranaki better.

Jack Van Prehn and Brodie Ferguson have enjoyed the hospitality and culture of the Vanuatu community while competing in the Vanuatu Amateur Golf Open 🇻🇺 Jack took out the title and has come home with a fabulous trophy 🏆 🏝