Formosa Golf Resort

Overview: Formosa Golf Resort is an 18-hole coastal course at Beachlands on Auckland’s eastern shore. The resort presents the layout as a championship course designed by New Zealand major champion Sir Bob Charles, with open shoreline views shaping the atmosphere of the round. The setting gives Formosa a different feel from Auckland’s inland parkland clubs: wind, exposed ground and changing sightlines are part of the experience, while the broad property provides room for a full resort-style routing.

History: The course is closely tied to the Formosa resort property and to Sir Bob Charles’s design work. The current official material confirms the course’s continuing identity as an 18-hole championship layout, but does not publish a reliable opening year or a single current championship yardage. Those fields are deliberately left open here so the profile reflects what can be verified rather than a secondary estimate.

Did You Know? Formosa’s name and setting point to the shoreline as a defining part of its character. The course occupies the Pohutukawa Coast east of Auckland, where coastal light and weather can change the look of the property from one day to the next. That gives the same broad design a noticeably different visual personality across the year.