Both courses are easily accessed by staying downtown at the Langham Hotel, one of Auckland's more prestigious lodgings, featuring several gourmet restaurants, a full-service spa and a fine location. ... The Punga (sometimes known as Ponga) wall fences on the course are the Kiwi's answer to Pete Dye's railroad ties. The golf course has been returned to something of a bird sanctuary, with a very imposing fence to keep out predatory animals, and to resurrect the natural ...
