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Kauai Golf The oldest and most exquisite of the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai only has nine golf courses, but what it lacks in quantity is more than compensated for by stunning, one-of-a-kind settings no matter where you play.
The island's most celebrated destination, the Princeville Resort, is home to the 27-hole Makai and 18-hole Prince courses, both designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Princeville sits remotely on Kauai's verdant north shore while Mount Namolokoma, a deep tropical green with running waterfalls, towers overhead. Below and to the right lie Hanalei Bay and a string of other enticing inlets. Great, if difficult, golf characterizes both layouts, especially the Prince, which Golf Digest honors as one of America's 100 greatest courses, as well as Hawaii's top-rated course. On the sunny, drier side of island, next to the Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa Kauai, another worthy Robert Trent Jones, Jr., creation, the Poipu Bay Resort Course, has been the site for the Grand Slam of Golf since 1994, featuring the winners of golf's four major championships. This is a windy, seaside layout with a great stretch of finishing holes along the open-ocean cliffs of Keoneloa Bay. Other award-winning Kauai layouts include the Groves Farm Golf Course near Lihue, ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the country's 10 best nine-hole courses, and the Jack Nicklaus-designed Kiele Course at the Kauai Lagoons Resort, which features ocean crossings, large inland waterways, and jungle-like ravines. Finally, golfers should not leave Kauai without playing one of America's best public layouts, the Wailua Golf Course. Host of the USGA National Public Links Championship on three different occasions, the course wends through gnarled ironwood trees and alongside booming surf on Kauai's eastern shore, and has been affectionately described as a poor man's Pebble Beach.
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