North Shore Golf Club was established in 1931, with golfers playing on a site just outside Auckland in Takapuna. In the late 1950s, the course was under threat from motorway works for the Auckland Harbour Bridge so a decision was made to relocate eight kilometres northwest to Albany.
Thankfully, the old site which was left behind wasn’t completely obliterated and the municipal Takapuna Golf Course still operates there, attracting more than 60,000 rounds of golf annually.
Over the years, an extensive drainage system was installed at Albany to overcome the sodden state of the fairways which can occur with heavy rain on the North Shore clays and a fairway watering system was introduced in the mid-1990s to further enhance playing conditions.
There are 27 holes in operation at the club.