By Travel + Leisure

Growing up in Auckland, Te Arai was the kind of beach you went to with a good road-trip playlist and no real agenda. It wasn’t curated or commodified—just a long sweep of pale sand, pine forest, and powerful waves rolling in from the Pacific. If anyone lingered past sunset, it was in a tent tucked behind the dunes, at the mercy of the elements. Decades later, arriving to find one of the world’s most talked-about new golf resorts on the same stretch of coast feels both surreal and, somehow, inevitable.

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