On Maui
King Kamehameha Golf Club is the most affordable of the new facilities and the only one that seems to be seeking both local and nonresident members. It’s the club’s second time around: Born as a private Japanese club in the 1990s, it failed and went dormant until last year. The Ted Robinson course (recently updated by Ted Jr.) offers expansive views, and the water features appear to tumble naturally down from the West Maui Mountains. Its fairways are lined with tropical flowers, and the clubhouse was built using plans purchased from Frank Lloyd Wright’s foundation.
On the other side of the West Maui Mountains at the Kapalua Resort, the Village course is scheduled to close this month to make way for the private Mauka course. The Tom Fazio design is due to open in early 2009, with a new clubhouse offering commanding views of the nearby islands of Molokai and Lanai. Membership includes access to all three Kapalua courses, including the Plantation, home of the PGA Tour’s Mercedes-Benz Championship.
"The Mauka will use some of the existing corridors of the Village course," said Gary Planos, Kapalua senior vice president of resort operations, "but we’ll also be engaging fantastic new property up to eleven hundred feet in elevation."
"It’s something our property owners started asking for," he added. "If they were going to have a home here, they wanted their own club, too."
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