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CoursesCape Kidnappers Golf Course
Cape Kidnappers Golf Course
Golf Course

Cape Kidnappers Golf Course

Location
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Opened
2004
Track Length
7,147 yards

Built atop dramatic finger-like ridges jutting out into the Pacific Ocean in Hawke's Bay, Cape Kidnappers is one of the most visually stunning golf courses ever built. Several holes play along cliff edges with 450-foot drops to the sea below.

Notable Moments

Named the best new international course when it opened
Cliff-edge holes with 450-foot drops
Tom Doak considered it one of his finest works

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