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If you enjoy the peaceful escape the Makena Golf Course
provides, then you’ll love the addition of the new North Course, another
18-holes of championship golf designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
Opened in 1993, the North Course goes out of its way to
make golfers feel at one with their natural surroundings. There are no
distractions on this course-unless you considered the unobstructed views of
the blue pacific, neighboring islands, and humpback whales breaching during
whale season to be a bit distracting.
In fact, to make it feel more like a nature walk and less
like a golf course, even cart paths on the North Course are tucked away and
hidden from view. You will have some obstacles to overcome, however.
Natural Hawaiian rock walls are left right where they
were found, and they play an integral part in the course design. Natural
gulllies and streambeds are also left intact, along with Makena’s indigenous
kiawe trees.
The best view of the North Course comes where you’d expect to find it:
part-way up the mountain on the thirteenth hole, overlooking the clubhouse and
the natural rolling terrain that leads right up to the ocean.
The fourteenth hole is special too because of its 200-foot
elevation drop between tee and green.
And as an added bonus to save golfers some time looking for lost balls,
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. designed most fairway so that everything slopes back
towards the center.
North Course Score Card/View Holes click here |