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Dressed for golf, 2013

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Dressed for golf, 2013

Jeans or shorts and a pair of trainers were all that was required to enjoy a social game at the council-owned Berhampore Golf Course in Wellington in 2013. Rio Hunuki Hemopo (left) lines up his putt, watched by Don Matheson (centre) and Rio's son Ihaka Hunuki-Mayes, aged two and a half, who has his own plastic putter.

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Garry Ahern, Golf – Origins of New Zealand golf, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39253/dressed-for-golf-2013 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Garry Ahern, published 3 December 2012, updated 1 September 2016.