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's manager says.
CCTV footage shows a man strolling through the Pullman Hotel in the Waterloo Quadrant on Sunday with the bag slung 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 in to the hotel for a coffee or whatever. There's no swipe or anything to get into the hotel.''
The clubs' owner had not noticed that they were missing until yesterday, following England's nail-biting test match finale with the Black Caps at Eden Park.