A bag of expensive golf clubs belonging to a member of the visiting English cricket team had been sitting unattended in a public part of a central Auckland hotel before it was stolen by an opportunist, the hotel manager says.
CCTV footage shows a man strolling through the Pullman Hotel in Waterloo Quadrant on Sunday with the bag across his shoulder.
Hotel operations manager Zac Lumsden said the clubs had been left in a downstairs function area accessible from the street.
"You can access it if you wanted to come into the hotel for a coffee or whatever. There's no swipe or anything to get into the hotel."
The clubs' owner had not noticed they were missing until Tuesday, after England's nail-biting test finale with the Black Caps at Eden Park.
