Manor Park has a proud, traditional history, tracing its beginnings to 1913 when the Karori Golf Club was first formed in Wellington City. An equal-opportunity role model from the beginning, club records show that almost half the original 96 members were women.

An eighteen-hole course was in play by 1936, the year Manor Park tasted golfing success when it won the Watt Cup for the first time. The women members were also performing with distinction, winning the Mary Alward Cup on four occasions from 1933 through to 1940. In 1946 the Wellington District Golf Association classified the club as a Major A Club, and accepted a team from Manor Park in the Arthur Duncan Cup Competition, which was won by the club in 1948. A Women's Mid-Week club was affiliated to the Ladies' Golf Union in November 1956. The foundation membership of eight generated so much interest that this was extended to twenty-four within a month.

Since then the club has gone from strength to strength, producing many prestigious players and hosting many National and Provincial golfing events, such as the National Interprovincial Championship, New Zealand Mixed Foursomes Championship and the pre-qualifying rounds for the New Zealand Open Championship.