Golf Hawaii 2008

Old Hawai‘i I A storied history of golf on Hawai‘i’s Big Island traces back in time over 100 years. Story by John Byrne & George Fuller It is easy to think that golf came recently to the Hawaiian Islands. The magnificently manimani cured resort courses we play today have come to define golf in Hawai‘i for the millions of visitors who visit her shores every year, as well as to the many millions more who watch the televised professional tournaments of the Aloha Season each year. But the story of golf in Hawai‘i dates back to 1898’s founding of the Moanalua Golf Course on O‘ahu by Samuel Mills Damon and his Scottish groundskeeper, Donald MacIntyre. In those days, sugar was king in Hawai‘i, and Scottish plantation managers were common. These men fashioned several golf courses around the islands for their recreation, as they had back in their homeland. On Hawai‘i’s Big Island, an example of this early sugar plantation influence is H¯ m¯ kua Country Club, the aa little nine-holer over in Honoka‘a on the H¯ m¯ kua Coast. This area was, aa until the 1990s, a major growing region of sugar cane on Hawai‘i Island. The H¯ m¯ kua Country Club has served the plantation aa managers well since the 1920s. It was during the 1920s and ’30s that one of Hawai‘i’s greatest golfers, Francis Hyde I‘i Brown, known affectionately as the “father of Hawaiian golf,” began his career of breaking records. He owned the course record on the Old Course St. Andrews, a 62, which he carded after playing a practice round during the 1924 British Open; he owned the course record at Pebble Above: Francis H. I‘i Brown - “The year he won the Califoria State Championship 1930”. Photo courtesy of Mauna Lani Resort. Left: James Hamilton, manager of the Royal Hawaiian Sales, Ltd. and four golfers, Andy Pickerill, W. I. Henderson, Roy Blackshear and James McClean. Copy courtesy of Hilo Tribune-Herald, March 1927. 8 The Official Golf Guide to Hawai‘i’s Big Island

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Golf Hawaii 2008 Contents Welcome Message Big Island Golf Map Golf Hawai‘i—Rich in History Mauna Kea Resort Mauna Lani Resort Waikaloa Beach Resort Hualalai Resort Kona Country Club Hawai‘i’s Hidden Greens A World of Adventure The Parting Shot

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