Play this course and you realize just how good the guys on the PGA Tour really are. Loved playing this golf course but patience is key and course management is essential. Lots of blind shots and depending on the wind, lots of errant shots. Putting is extremely challenging and depending if your putting towards the ocean or inland makes downhill and uphill putts exciting.Highly recommend this course regardless of your handicap. Enjoyable to play, greens in excellent conditions as are the fairways and tee boxes. Pace of play is excellent and service (bag drop, pro shop, cart lady) all wonderful. The course is absolutely beautiful and almost every hole has a view of the ocean. If visiting Maui and if you have time for a round of golf, highly recommend The Plantation Course - Kapalua.
Course was in great shape although we played it only a few weeks before the PGA event. The greens were a little slow but apparently they always are before they shave them down for the pros. It is a little pricey but it's a PGA calibre course with excellent service, great views, and huge amounts of challenge.
Looking to test your skills this is the course. Played on a rainy day and we were almost the only ones on the course which made it fun. No waiting!!Home of the Hyundai tournament in Jan each year this course is challenging and a true test of your skills. Enjoy it, great vistas.
The Kapalua Plantation course was unreal! The greens were in great condition and the rest of the course was in pristine condition. A must play if you are in Maui!!
My partner has had a once in a lifetime opportunity to play on the Kapalua Plantation course whilst we were in MauiIf you are and avid golf player & fan - then pop this one onto your list.This course is absolutely amazing - it is kept in immaculate condition and it feels like each hole is secluded and individual.Stunning views just add to the fast & challenging greens
Been hearing about this course for years. Now it is 1 week before the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and all the TV stands and grandstands are in place. Cartpath only so we are doing a bit of walking, but this is a great course. Fairways are wide but you need to be careful. I had a less windy day so I consider myself lucky. I'm an 11 handicap and did pretty well here, but by not trying to hit the greens (with all the trouble around them) and shooting to come up 20 yards short and rely on my short game to get it close to the hole. Good strategy as the greens can be tricky and really sloped (which you can't see from fairway.) If you can chip - you can get a look at the greens and hit the proper chip to get close to the pin. *Grain matters* - learn how to play it.I have booked this course 3 more times during out stay - I liked it that much. It is expensive, but this isn't a Hawaiian resort course. This is like going to Monterey to play Pebble, Spyglass or Poppy Hills. If your a "3 rounds a year golfer" and can't get off the tee - don't waste your $$ here just to be miserable and hold up the groups behind you. They will press you as most of the players here are pretty good.
Great views, well maintained, nice staff. Fast greens, hard to read lines, blind shots. Wind. Lots of elevation. Would do it again in a heartbeat.
I played the Plantation course in the afternoon, mainly because I was driving up from Wailea, which is typically over an hour drive in traffic. The wind blows most afternoons and this day was no exception. As a result, the course played tough. Pay the extra money and play the course in the morning if you possibly can, unless you just happen to enjoy the torture of a two or three club wind.This is just a terrific layout and a joy to play. The views of the ocean and other islands are just amazing and the course is a real treat. The course is pretty open with lots of wide fairways. I understand now why the pros enjoy it -- you can bomb away without a lot of fear of hitting it out of play. The greens are a tiff Bermuda so they do not have a ton of grain, at least as Bermuda greens go. I thought they were fair to putt. Not at all easy to putt, but fair. I played the "regular" tees, which play in the 6600 - 6700 yard range. There a lots of shorter par 4's, but they may or may not play short depending on the wind conditions. There are a great many elevation changes and you'll have lots of uneven lies on approach shots. While the course is tough, it is also a joy to play. Lots of great, memorable holes.The pro shop is large and well stocked. I found the prices to be fair and the employees friendly. The practice area is small and several minutes away from the first tee via golf cart -- it is way too far to walk there. You hit from mats, which was disappointing. The practice putting green is large and pretty representative of the actual greens on the course.When I played the course they were getting it ready for the Hyundai tournament in early January. Bleachers were going up and they were not letting any carts get off the cart path. The course wasn't packed, but it was pretty crowded. As a result the pace of play was slow. Almost five a half hours slow and we barely finished before sundown. But even with that, I thoroughly enjoyed playing the course and would do it again in a heartbeat.
An absolute joy to play this course! Got to play with my son which it it even better. We had a blast. Btw the beverage cart lady was incredibly nice. She was able to find me some non alcoholic beverage (O'Doul's) which is not easy. Can't wait to play it again. Even in the rain and high winds it was fun.
I wasn't planning on golfing on our most recent vacation, but once the wife found out that the Plantation Course at Kapalua hosts a PGA event every year, she basically forced me to go (twist my rubber arm, haha). It was amazing! Right from the bag drop to the final putt for a birdie on 18 to the clubhouse staff and the amazing food. Highly recommend!