Course Description
Three championship courses, The Bay, The Village and The Plantation, set amidst Maui's magnificent landscape make Kapalua the #1 golf resort in Hawaii. Each distinctive course presents its own challenge to a player's abilities... even PGA TOUR professionals are put to the test as they compete in the the Mercedes Championships. This PGA TOUR event is held every January on Kapalua's Plantation Course.

The Plantation Course is a tournament par-73, 7,411-yard links course. Designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, the course unfurls across natural geographic formations and pineapple fields with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

Signature Holes
Plantation Course Hole #1: The opening hole introduces the character, scale and drama of the course about to be played. It is a downhill, downwind 434-yard par four of immense proportion. An adequate tee shot assisted by the wind and slope should leave a middle-to-long iron approach to an expansive and welcoming green that slopes from left to right. The difficulty of this hole is more psychological than physical.

Plantation Course Hole #5: This natural and daring 485-yard par five slopes from left to right the entire length. An example of the classical “cape” concept of golf architecture, the fairway culminates at a green perched on a peninsula high above the canyon that borders the entire right side of the hole. The nature of the hole entices the player to “have a go” after a fine drive. Courage, but not foolhardiness, is rewarded here.

Plantation Course Hole #8: This middle iron par three plays 172-yards across a native canyon to a receptive green. The green which slopes back-to-front and right-to-left was built to hold and nurse the ball to the left, given the strong trade winds from the right.

Plantation Course Hole #11: This 145-yard par three demands and rewards thought and finesse. The desired tee shot is a short iron that either “cuts” and “holds” into the wind blowing from the player’s right shoulder or one that allows for drift and uses the approach and slope of the green for assistance. A shot flown directly to the back left pin will not likely be tried more than once.

Plantation Course Hole #17: This unusually long 467-yard par four is made accessible by the prevailing winds and a downhill elevation change of more than 150 feet from tee to green. The tee shot, preferably a high soaring draw, is played to a wide, collecting fairway sloping primarily from right to left. Approach shots are played with anything from middle irons to fairway woods to a large, yet subtle, green beckoning to and accepting the long running approach. The view from atop the seventeenth tee, the highest point on the course, is perhaps the most dramatic in all of Kapalua.

Plantation Course Hole #18: The “Home” hole around which the rest of the course was formulated, the eighteenth is an extremely long downhill, downwind par five. Despite its length, the hole is made reachable in two powerful blows by the assisting winds and slope. The fairway and the green are large and receptive, yet difficult to judge, awing to the vast panorama and scale of the background. The eighteenth is probably the most scenic, spectacular and representative of all the holes at the Plantation. Course. It’s scale and drama are uncommon and its challenge is within reason, while its surrounding beauty is unparalleled. The Par five 663-yard 18th hole is the longest hole on the PGA TOUR.

Four, Five and Seven Night Golf Packages Available
Kapalua Resort is home to a superb array of accommodations - each offering the discriminating traveler a unique and luxurious vacation experience as well as distinctive amenities, superior guest service and, most importantly, a place for inspired relaxation.

Each property - The Kapalua Villas and Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua - have won critical acclaim. Travel + Leisure magazine have ranked both accommodations in the Top 25 Hawaii Hotels in the Annual World's Best Reader Survey and Condé Nast Traveler readers have repeatedly voted them to their prestigious Gold List.

Kapalua Golf Academy
The Kapalua Golf Academy was designed in conjunction with senior PGA TOUR professional, Hale Irwin and offers a unique state-of-the-art golf facility unmatched in Hawai‘i. The facility features 85,000 square feet of grass teeing area, several practice putting greens, greenside and fairway bunkers, an 18-hole putting course, a minimum of eight target greens and specialty short game area. The Kapalua Golf Academy also features a 3,500-square foot learning center housing classroom instruction, a digital video bay and a strength and flexibility area. A teaching staff of over 25 PGA professionals is available to guide students through casual or intensive instruction.

Tee	Par	Yardage	Rating (US)	Slope (US)
Championship	73	7263	74.9	138
Men's	73	6547	71.7	130
Ladies'	73	5627	73.2	129

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