PHOTO: PIERS FULLER/STUFF – Club captain Charlie Fairbrother at the final hole.

Featherston may have the second hottest property market in the country, but that hasn’t helped boost its golfing numbers.

The 116-year-old Featherston Golf Club is winding up and its 18-hole course a couple of kilometres south of the Wairarapa town is being sold, much to the disappointment of some stalwart members.

With a course once described by prominent golfing author Tom Hyde as New Zealand’s flattest, the Featherston club has been in steady decline.

Club captain Charlie Fairbrother said the writing had been on the wall for several years and they just hadn’t found a way to make it sustainable.

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