While more renowned courses like the Prince Golf Course and Poipu Bay Golf Course steal the headlines on Kauai, Kiahuna Golf Club is leading the island in embracing a relatively new strain of grass that could one day be commonplace on most Hawaii golf courses.
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For the resort golfer looking for those Hawaii coastline money shots, Princeville at Hanalei's Makai Golf Course has more oceanfront holes running along the North Shore. Both the Ocean and Lakes' nines weave out to the coast, and the Ocean's par-3 seventh hole, playing on rugged coastline 200 feet above the ocean, is among Kauai's most famous.
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Confident about your game? If you've scored a few low rounds lately, take your golf clubs over to the Hawaiian island of Kauai and the Prince Course at the Princeville Resort. Trying to take down one of Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s most demanding courses can make for a maddening afternoon.
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Kaanapali Kai is a golf course that can surprise you in more ways than just the train. It's located smack dab in the middle of Kaanapali, Maui's most cookie-cutter resort and shopping area. Yet the course itself is a largely unique play, Chris Baldwin writes at WorldGolf.com.
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Wailea Golf Club's Emerald Course doesn't live up to the hype. The club's Gold Course, also designed by Robert Trent Jones II, is a superior round of golf.
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The Plantation Course at Kapalua Golf Resort on Maui is a golf vacation-lover's dream. You'll feel like a PGA Tour vet after playing the golf course's long fairways and greens, all in the middle of an Hawaiian paradise.
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Playing the front nine of The Experience at Koele will likely leave you yawning, but the back nine!? It's going to blow your golf spikes right off, Chris Baldwin writes. As mundane as the front nine can be, the back nine is sure to be one of the best two hours of golf you've ever had. Maybe the single best.
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Hawaii Kai Golf Course on the east side of Oahu is located 11 miles east of Waikiki, Hawaii. This popular local course was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and made into a championship course by William Bell.
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Most visitors to Kauai Lagoons, the golf club located near the Marriott Kauai Resort, yearn to play the star attraction, the Ki'ele Course, but in Hawaii, they know all about its sister course of Mokihana.
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On the island of Kauai, what is now called Puakea Golf Course in Lihue was originally destroyed by Hurricane Iniki. Finally AOL giant Steve Case came in, bailing the golf course out and returning it to glory.
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