From sweet sugar to sweet golf: Hawaii Prince Golf Club on Oahu
EWA BEACH, Hawaii - Located on the Ewa Plain of Oahu, Arnold Palmer and partner Ed Seay took what was once just waving fields of sugar cane and turned it into the challenging 27-hole Hawaii Prince Golf Club.
Opened in 1992, the golf course occupies 270 acres, offering stunning views of the rain-carved Waianae Mountains.
As an amenity of the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki, the golf course offers resort guests a challenging, but very playable layout. Located about 15-to-20 minutes from the hotel, there is water on the majority of holes, plenty of mounding to create all sorts of lies, and scores of bunkers to help frame holes and catch wayward shots.
Each of the nine holes - A, B and C – is related, but each also have its own identity. The most challenging combination is Hawaii Prince Golf Club's A/C course with a rating of 134 from the back tees. The least taxing, but not easy, is the A/B course.
Hawaii Prince G.C.'s B course is probably the most straightforward nine with the least amount of water, but it also has features tree-lined fairways and ends with a bang. The last hole on the B Course is a 440-yard par 4 with water left of a small fairway and right of the green. It might be the most difficult hole on all three golf courses.
Hawaii Prince Golf Club - B course - hole 3
The par-5 third on the B course at Hawaii Prince Golf Club is a straightaway birdie opportunity.
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Hawaii Prince Golf Club - B course - hole 5
The fifth hole on the B nine at Hawaii Prince Golf Club is a treacherous 418-yard par 4.
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Hawaii Prince golf course - B course - hole 9
The finishing hole on the B side of Hawaii Prince Golf Club has two water hzards on the way to a green 440 yards away.
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Hawaii Prince golf course - A course - hole 6
A pair of bunkers down the left side are to be avoided on the sixth hole of the A side at the Hawaii Prince Golf Club.
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Hawaii Prince Golf Club - A course - hole 7
Water is a common theme at the Hawaii Prince Golf Club, and there's plenty of it surrounding the seventh hole on the A nine.
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Hawaii Prince GC - A course - hole 9
The green on the ninth hole on the A side of Hawaii Prince Golf Club is well protected by water and sand.
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Hawaii Prince Golf Club - A course - hole 9
The ninth hole on the A nine at Hawaii Prince Golf Club on Oahu is a 452-yard par 4.
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Hawaii Prince Golf Club on Oahu
Constant wind is what makes playing Hawaii Prince Golf Club difficult.
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Hawaii Prince Golf Club - C course - hole 6
Hit it long on the approach of the par-5 sixth hole of the C nine at Hawaii Prince Golf Club, and you'll find the sand.
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Hawaii Prince G.C. - C course - hole 8
With water down the left and right side, the 458-yard par-4 eighth hole on the C nine is one of the toughest holes at Hawaii Prince Golf Club.
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Hawaii Prince golf course - C course - hole 9
The finishing hole on the C side at Hawaii Prince Golf Club is an ideal risk-reward par 5.
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