23/09/2026
A very strong message between our culture.
Let’s make it happen.
Welcome back home Maori People.🥰🫶🙏⛳️
🏆 TE MATA O KIWA — A TROPHY, A BOND BETWEEN TWO PEOPLES 🌊
On the occasion of the Pacific Golf Cup, our friends from the New Zealand Māori Golf Association (NZMGA) did not come to Tahiti empty-handed. They brought with them a perpetual trophy, one that will live on through our future encounters.
Far more than a sporting trophy, it carries a powerful symbol: the bond between the Māori of Aotearoa and the Mā’ohi of Tahiti — two peoples from the same Polynesian world, separated by the ocean yet united by their roots, cultures and history.
Its name, “Te Mata o Kiwa,” takes us back to the great Pacific Ocean. It echoes what we also call Te Moana a Hiva: that ancestral ocean which, for centuries, was never a boundary for our peoples. On the contrary, it was a pathway for navigation, migration, transmission and encounter, connecting the islands, families, genealogies and cultures of the great Polynesian Triangle.
Hiva also connects us to the memory of our ancestral lands, our origins and the voyages of our tupuna.
This is the true meaning of this trophy: to transform the ocean that separates us into a bond that brings us together.
Through golf, the NZMGA and the Fédération Polynésienne de Golf now wish to build and nurture this bond between Aotearoa and Tahiti, encounter after encounter, generation after generation.
Because beyond the competition lies something deeper: sharing our passion, passing on our cultures, reconnecting with our roots, and allowing each of us to reconnect with our kaupapa — what gives meaning to our commitment, to who we are, and to what we wish to pass on to future generations.
🏆 A perpetual trophy.
🌊 One ocean.
🤝 Two peoples reunited: Māori – Mā’ohi
⛳ A shared passion bringing them together.
Te Mata o Kiwa: Rediscovering what unites us — our values, our roots, and the deeper purpose that gives meaning to our gathering: “Kaupapa.”
May this trophy now travel between Aotearoa and Tahiti and, year after year, tell the story of a bond rediscovered.
