The Plantation Course at Kapalua stays a favourite of the PGA Tour and common golfers alike.
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As a part of GOLF’s rigorous scores course of for our newly launched Prime 100 Programs within the U.S. and Prime 100 Programs You Can Play rankings, our fleet of 100-plus professional panelists recognized the perfect golf programs in each state.
You’ll be able to try the hyperlinks beneath to browse all of our course rankings, or scroll all the way down to see the perfect programs in Hawaii. And should you’re trying to create your personal journey sooner or later, you’d be smart to let GOLF’s new Course Finder software help you. Right here, you possibly can toggle all of our lists — Prime 100 public, finest munis, finest brief programs, finest par-3s and extra — or filter by value to create the proper itinerary in your subsequent journey.
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One of the best golf programs in Hawaii (2024/2025)
SYMBOL GUIDE
# = Prime 100 Course within the U.S.
Y = Prime 100 You Can Play within the U.S.
V = Prime 100 Worth Course within the U.S.
P = Public/Resort
Ed. notice: Some programs have been omitted from our rankings as a result of they didn’t obtain sufficient votes.
1. Nanea (Kailua-Kona) [#]
Depend members of the native highschool crew among the many fortunate few who take pleasure in entry to this non-public Shangri-La, which was designed by David McLay Kidd on behalf of Charles Schwab and funding big George Roberts. Engaged on a hardened-lava web site that instructions an ocean panoramic, McLay Kidd threaded fairways alongside the black-rock flows, and fringed them with fountain grasses that think of the fescue of a British hyperlinks. The remainder of the place is pure Hawaii. 5 copper domes on the low-slung clubhouse mimic the island’s 5 volcanos, whereas the brief par-4 14th has a break up fairway that invitations you to play over or round a mini-crater’s dormant rim.
2. Kapalua – Plantation (Lahaina) [P, Y]
3. Manele Golf Course (Lanai Metropolis) [P]
4. Mauna Kea Golf Course (Waimea) [P]
5. Kukui’ula Golf Course (Koloa)
6. The Membership at Hokulia (Kealakekua)
7. Kuki’o Golf & Seashore Membership (Kailua-Kona)
8. Princeville Makai Golf Membership (Princeville) [P]
9. Hualalai Golf Course (Kailua-Kona) [P]
10. Poipu Bay Golf Course (Koloa) [P]
How we rank our programs
For our newly launched Prime 100 U.S. and Prime 100 You Can Play lists — a course of that helped us create 50 best-in-state rankings — every panelist was offered a poll that consisted of 609 programs. Beside the checklist of programs have been 11 “buckets,” or groupings. If our panelists thought-about a course to be among the many high three within the U.S., they ticked that first column. In the event that they believed the course to be amongst Nos. 4-10, they checked that column, adopted by 11-25, 26-50, and so forth out to 250+ and even a column for “take away.” Panelists have been additionally free to put in writing in programs that they felt ought to have been included on the poll.
