Makalei Golf Club

We play this course everytime we come to Hawaii. We love the course and feel it is challangeing and fun.

Played this course years ago, but on this trip it was in bad shape. Grass was sparse in many places. Tee boxes in bad shape.

This is an exciting course to play. Keep your ball in the fairway and you'll do fine. The surrounding wild forest and beautiful views make it a very exciting course to play. Quite hilly, which you can use to your advantage when making shots. I loved this course.

Had a great day at this course, it was a bit slow but it was a holiday so it was to be expected. The course marshall did a good job of moving people along .
Layout was tough and greens especially difficult .
All in all I had a great time and well worth the money.

Very challenging. Yardage doesn't begin to describe the degree of difficulty. If you normally soot in the high 80s, don' t even think about playing anything except the whites. Replays are 25, so if you find the whites too easy (not likely) you can move back. Good views, lots of opportunity to try the rough. Bring enough balls, particularly if you are a long hitter. Balls tend to roll to unfriendly places.

The club house is pretty unassuming but once on the course it is very nice. Hawaii mountain golf with a lot of elevation changes and the 15th hole, a down hill par 3 with water left of the green is spectacular. Views from many of the holes and the birds are everywhere. We will play this one again before we leave the island.

Well maintained with great greens. Love the variety of birds and animals. Challenging with some friendly holes. Scenery
Was spectacular. Play it every time we visit kona!!

Nice layout as mountainside courses go - cooler temps were appreciated - good variety, lots of elevation changes,challenging approaches and greens, interesting breaks - nice views, forests, bird life.

Best buy in Hawaii Livestock on course interesting. great photo

This is a very unique course on the hillside up above Kailua-Kona. I have played here both times I have been to Hawaii to play golf over the past three years. I love the wildlife especially the peacocks. The course is in excellent condition, the holes are unique but very playable with very little gimmickry. Many times the course is up in the clouds and mist. There is a lot of elevation gain and loss throughout the 18 holes. We always recommend this course to those golfing on Hawaii.

Nice track. Greens very slow, but overall is a good challenge. Get the yardage book, or you'll be guessing. Surprising location of a couple of ponds. Good value for Hawaii.

We loved the views and the cooler temperatures at the higher elevation .Great value.

Great mountain cse .with ocean views.Love lava rock retainiing walls of tee boxes.8th green is next to lava tube.Par-3 15th hole is a beauty.Peacocks are everywhere!!

Price right for playing conditions and good pric compared to resort courses. Fairways were much wider than I expected for a moutain course.

We are relative novices and the steep uphill holes were quite a challange, but the scenery was great, the fairways usually seemed wide, and the 2000+ ft elevation with partial overcast was a relief in mid-August. We were pretty slow, but the course wasn't very busy and nobody, including the Marshall, seemed to mind playing through us. Even the driving range was an experience with the 5 minute cart ride, although it would have been more appropriate for the range to extend uphill rather than downhill. The peacocks did seem to laugh at errant shots on latter holes, but it added to our fun.

This course is awesome. Besides some challenging holes and beautiful, scenic views, there are numerous peacocks, yellow finches, grouse and mongooses that add to the adventure. Definitely a course I will play again.

Good bargain for Big Island golf. Tight course in a jungle setting. Good condition.

Had fun and great value for the money. Challenging course. Friendly staff

Very challenging and up and down the mountains; It was a pleasure to play and in great shape for a public course. The people are super nice and wonderfully friendly. We played for $40 per person at 10:30am via Golf Now and at that rate this was a steal

Fairways need work, greens ran true. Staff attentive