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A Golfer's Guide to the Best Golf Vacations in Hawaii

The Best Golf Courses in Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Lanai and the Big Island

If golf is your passion, Travelwizard.com can help you find the perfect golf resort in the Hawaiian Islands. Many of the luxury resorts we have selected are right next door to Hawaii’s world famous golf courses. We will maximize your time on the greens by suggesting the perfect resort for your style of play. Call our Virtuoso Hawaii Golf Vacation Specialist at 1.800.330.8820 to arrange your Hawaii golf vacation package.

 

Maui, Hawaii's Wailea Gold Golf Course

Maui: The Fairmont Kea Lani Maui


The Wailea Gold Course has been labeled a ''thinking player's'' course because it demands strategy and careful club selection to be played well. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the golf course features stark lava rock outcroppings, indigenous Hawaiian grasses, and remnants of papohaku, prehistoric lava rock walls.
 

Maui, Hawaii's Wailea Emerald Golf Course

Maui: Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

 

Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Wailea Emerald is a spectacularly scenic golf course that boasts panoramic views of its natural surroundings. Wailea Emerald, a par-72 course spread across 6,825 yards, is a lovingly tended tropical playground with exotic blossoms and lush landscaping.

 

Kauai, Hawaii Golf Vacation at Poipu Bay

Kauai: Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa

 

 A unique and unforgettable golf experience awaits you in Kauai. The Poipu Bay golf course offers some exceptional amenities like an in-cart satellite navigation system that tells your exact distance to the hole and pin placement -- and a few slightly lower-tech amenities like an on-course beverage cart and refreshing cold towels.

 

The Prince Golf Course and the Makai Golf Course at Princeville Resort, Kauai Golf Vacation

Kauai: Princeville Resort


At the heart of the Princeville experience is golf. In collaboration with nature, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has fashioned 45 of the most beautiful, tropical holes of golf in the world. They range along green bluffs that skirt mountains and the bluest ocean, offering stunning views everywhere you look.

 

Francis H. I'i Brown Golf Course at the Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii’s Big Island

Hawaii: The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii

 

The Fairmont Orchid is adjacent to the award-winning Francis H. I'i Brown Golf Course, offering 36 holes of continuous play. The course has spectacular scenery with ocean views and green fairways. Designed to have two distinct 18-hole complexes, the south and north course each capture the unique characteristics of the land.

 

Mauna Lani Bay Golf Courses, Hawaii (Big Island)

Hawaii: Mauna Lani Bay Hotel

 

The North and South golf courses at Mauna Lani are remarkable for the vast fields of dark black lava on which they were constructed. Trees often come into play on the North Course which is characterized by rolling terrain. The South Course snakes through rugged lava flows, and offers mountain and ocean views.

 

The Experience at Koele and The Challenge at Manele, Lanai Golf Vacation
Lanai: Lodge at Koele

 

Lanai offers two distinct Hawaii golf experiences. From stunning mountain vistas to lush greens, the Experience at Koele features a combination of upland terrain and inspired landscape architecture. High above the roiling surf, the Challenge at Manele offers a target-style game set amid plunging gorges and verdant ravines.

 

Hawaii Golf Vacation at Ko Olina, Oahu

Oahu: J W Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa

 

Ko Olina Golf Club offers a challenging 18-hole championship course with exceptional water features on many holes and no parallel fairways. Designed by Ted Robinson, this 6,867-yard golf course offers 18 holes in an idyllic location with cascading waterfalls and shimmering pools.