Waimairi Beach golf club also has an area where green fee players, with self contained vehicles, can park for free just outside the gate.
Having just played at Rangiora and needing to rest we checked into the club house and booked a tee time for Friday morning. We thought we were the only vehicle in the carpark that night but on waking found another NZMCA motorhome parked close by. Their blinds were still drawn when we went to play in the sunshine this time. Waimairi is a links course which was badly damaged and covered with liquefaction after the Christchurch earthquake in 2011. Pretty much all the numerous pine trees were lost and they had to completely reconstruct the course apart from the first 5 holes which we found still rather mushy underfoot in places. by bunkers, sometimes as many as 5. Also water hazards with my ball unfortunately just managing to slip into the far side of the pond on No 17, a par 3! However we enjoyed the course which is definitely one we would like to play again.
After golf and lunch we drove into the city to the Amber Kiwi Holiday Park where we booked in for 2 nights in readiness for our friends' 3 day Golden Wedding celebrations. We decided it would be good to be connected to electricity so we could iron our clothes, dry my hair and have longer showers!
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