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Pacific Golf Management is a market leader in

  • Golf Course and Resort management
  • Golf Tournament and event management
  • Corporate golf days and events
  • Golf tours
  • Golf design and construction
  • Golf consultancy

Pacific Golf Management was formed in 1990 and is owned by golf professional Richard Ellis. Richard has been a golf professional for more than 30 years. Born in Australia but residing in New Zealand has won over 20 professional tournaments, he played full time for twelve years on the Australasian, Asian and Pacific Tours.

Richard is one of the most repected figures in Australasian golf he was a director of the PGA Tour for 12 years and served as New Zealand PGA president from 1995 to 2005.

In 1983 Richard made his first venture into the corporate world buying Auckland’s first golf driving range at Panmure. Within 12 months the associated Golf Pro Shop became the largest retailer of golf equipment in New Zealand.

In 1986 Richard took over the management contract to run Auckland’s busiest public golf course at Takapuna.

In 1990 he formed Pacific Golf Management. In that year the company took a 50 per cent ownership of the Takapuna Golf Course and embarked upon a re-design of the Golf Course and construction of the new club house- golf shop-restaurant and all weather golf driving range.

Since 1990 Pacific Golf has been involved in numerous golf related projects including the management of New Zealand’s first true international golf course Gulf Harbour Country Club. The latest project is the management of Lakes Resort Pauanui which has a 18 hole international golf course, exclusive gated residential community, villas, terraced apartments and a to be built 240 bed hotel.

Apart from golf and resort management Pacific Golf is contracted by a number of international companies to organise nationwide and overseas corporate golf tournaments and events in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and China.

The most significant event that Pacific Golf has managed is the 1998 World Cup of Golf which carried Australasia’s largest professional prize money of $3,000,000. It saw the likes of John Daly, Nick Faldo, Scott Verplank, Padraig Harrington, and Colin Montgomerie compete. The Tournament was televised to over 130 countries worldwide.