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CAPE KIDNAPPERS AND KAURI CLIFFS NEW ZEALAND
Golf course architect Tom Doak secured his reputation as among the best designers of his generation when he did Pacific Dunes , opened on July 1 , 2001 , the second course to open at Oregon golf resort Bandon Dunes . By 2005 , Pacific Dunes was rated the number one resort golf course in the country by Golfweek
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magazine , placing just ahead of Pebble Beach . The course ’ s routing along the Pacific Ocean enabled it to attain 8th in the best links courses ranking by Golf Magazine in 2014 . Doak has six courses ranked among the top 100 in the world .
One of these is Cape Kidnappers Golf Club in New Zealand , that opened for play in 2004 . Not willing to rest on its laurels , the course invited Doak to do an upgrade during the past two years , which included the re-grassing of all 18 fairways , in addition to the rebuilding and re-grassing of all 18 greens .
“ The renovation also substantially upped our game on the practice-facility