{"id":644727,"date":"2026-10-29T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:20:10","slug":"election-2026-politicians-used-as-golf-targets-at-auckland-driving-ranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644727\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Politicians used as golf targets at Auckland driving ranges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEveryone has had a good laugh at both the images and their looks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellerslie manager Bruce Davies said the targets have been up for a few weeks and feedback has been positive.<\/p>\n

There will be people who see the negatives but it\u2019s just \u201ca bit of fun,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n

The Herald reached out to political parties to see what they made of it.<\/p>\n

Act said \u201cif it helps build a player\u2019s drive and doesn\u2019t hurt anyone, there\u2019s no harm in it. People will decide for themselves who to vote for and who not to\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHitting the Act target is a clear signal to party vote Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

National would not comment.<\/p>\n

Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori leader Rawiri Waititi commented under a social media post of the targets, writing \u201cif you need to hit something good today, Ellerslie Driving range has got you [goofy emoji]\u201d.<\/p>\n

He replied: \u201cNot me [laugh crying emoji].\u201d<\/p>\n

Grace Symmans<\/a> is a Wellington-based reporter who covers news in the capital. Grace joined NZME in 2025 as a producer for Wellington Mornings on Newstalk ZB. She can be emailed at grace.symmans@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEveryone has had a good laugh at both the images and their looks.\u201d Ellerslie manager Bruce Davies said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,806,1975,51,30642,3021,4189,3989,5903,22397,18126,18480,305,39024,5840,111,139,69,6452,18481,116761,544,213,8225,8220,165,13797,29591,4576],"class_list":["post-644727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-as","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-ball","tag-bring","tag-driving","tag-effort","tag-election","tag-favourite","tag-golf","tag-golfers","tag-have","tag-humour","tag-least","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opportunity","tag-politicians","tag-ranges","tag-some","tag-sports","tag-target","tag-targets","tag-their","tag-used","tag-wanting","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}