Maui's Golf Coast 2007 - (Page 22) I n the early 1990s, when Wailea decided to build a third golf course using lands originally slated for luxury real estate development, industry doubters called the company crazy. Resort golf, it was believed, should exist solely to be a loss leader for residential home sales. Au contraire. Shortly after the Wailea Emerald was built, the golfers came. And DRINKING WATER 11 TRAINING FACILITY 17 DRINKING WATER 13 COMFORT STATION 16 8 COMFORT STATION 9 10 18 12 DRINKING WATER 7 BLUE CLUBHOUSE 15 6 5 PARKING CLUBHOUSE 14 3 Golf Tip One of the nicest attributes of the Wailea Emerald Course is that it can accommodate both low and high handicappers in the same foursome. So the best way to play this course is to choose the tee markers suited for your individual game, and you’ll have one of the most enjoyable rounds of your life. so did the accolades. A top ten new resort course by Golf Digest. A best new course by Golf Magazine. One of the most women-friendly by Golf for Women. Best new courses award by The Golfer. Like the Wailea Gold Course, there are no homes lining the fairways of the 6,825-yard, par 72 Emerald. So if you want to enjoy the panoramic vistas from this course, you’ll have to do it TO WAILEA HOTELS DRINKING WATER DRINKING WATER 4 1 2 lounging in your cart rather than on your deck. Architect Robert Trent Jones II once noted that the Emerald was designed with feminine characteristics in mind. He wasn’t being sexist. He was referring to the course’s softer visual edges, the golf designer’s equivalent of a color palette into which he dipped a brush and painted the course in tropical colors: white for plumeria and spider lily, orange for bird-ofparadise and the fiery firecracker plants, lavender for beach morning glory, and a mixture of hues for bougainvillaea. Jones’ artwork, like any masterpiece, is meant to be enjoyed, not conquered. The Emerald is not one of those courses on which you strangle Wailea Emerald’s scenic finishing hole 22
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