Ka'anapali Golf Resorts (Maui)

For anyone paying prices outside of Golf Now rates, you are getting robbed until they fix the greens. I used this for my warm up round for nicer courses, but if this was my sole option I wouldn’t play another round while I’m here. I stopped keeping score after the second hold because you can’t putt. You can see a rooster tail of sand behind your ball on every putt and you have to hammer it to get a putt 5-10 feet. I feel bad for the staff as they are probably getting hounded by players after every round. This course shouldn’t be open or severely discounted. The rest of the course outside the greens was fine.

Have a fungus problem. Greens are covered in sand. Otherwise a great course.

Had I known the greens were so bad I never would have booked. They gave a discount but the conditions were unforgivable. Between the weeds, dead spots, and poor mowing, the greens are unputtable. I hope the head greens keeper has been kicked out of the business. Was going to play the Royal too but no way now. With Kapalua closed I guess they figured they could get away with this atrocity.

Absolutely a beautiful course. I really enjoyed playing 18 holes here and would highly recommend it to anyone.

The greens were truly un-puttable----long, Shaggy grass and all greens had burnt out spots. Course should really have been closed.

The lady in The pro shops said ariation was the reason the greens were in such bad shape, but that is not necessarily true. i think someone should have said that the greens were in terrible shape. i think they lost them, the greens, because the lack of water. which considering water on maui now, that's understandable but something should have been said.

I always enjoy both Kaanapali courses. We played the Kai course today. The greens were very slow, bumpy and in tough shape with dead and rough spots throughout. This was not a result of aeration as there were no plug holes. Unless the September aeration tore them up badly and they have not recovered. They are very unevenly mowed. The rest of the course is in good shape but bad greens make it difficult to enjoy the round and to score decent.

I’ve played all kinds of courses in my life, none as bad as this one. The greens are not playable. I saw some reviews about how bad the greens were and did not believe them and feel stupid now while playing it. I wouldn’t play this course for free if I was given the option. Wai’ehu has some of the best greens on the island and is cheaper than this garbage. Go there instead of here.

The Kai’s greens were just punched when we were there last week, but the Royal is the place to play. $133 was a fair price to play the only game in town in the Lahaina area.

Got a good deal on green fees because greens had been areated. There were only 4 greens where work was noticeable and it did not affect play. Well maintained course, great views. No pressure to play faster and cart showed we were consistently ahead of pace. Overall, a great round of golf.

First off yes the course was punched but that wasn’t even the issue. They seemed to take advantage of other course closing. The greens were really bad. The weeds you had to putt through was insane. I felt like I wasted money on just that only.

Beautiful views and excellent conditions. Teed off 11 am and it was windy

Greens in great shape. Some great views of Maui. Lot of variety to the holes. Fairways a little splotchy, but hey, just play the ball up as you are not on the tour. For amount of cost, really a big bang for your buck. Add this course to your list of courses to play on the East side when you are in Maui. My son rented clubs and I was really impressed with the Taylor Made Stealth 2 that he got, (woods and irons) plus Taylor Made putter. I have been to some nicer resorts that did not have rentals this nice.

For the amount of money we paid for to play here, we were expecting a better experience. The greens were not good at all! They were bumpy, patchy, they were dried out, so it was hard to keep your putts on line. We have played less expensive courses on Maui that had exceptional greens. The fairways were also uneven and had patches of dryness at times. We really wanted to enjoy our experience here, but it was a somewhat of a letdown. Now… if the greens and fairways were in better conditions, it would have been an excellent course.

A lot of greens patchy with poa like grass. Bunkers need sand and to be worked on. This is the little sister to the main, Royal course, and it feels like it is kept that way (as an afterthought).

Insuring golf tee times months in advance. Found course was in "aeration mode. Course kind enough to discount the round. I imagine this is beautiful and a challenge course when in perfect conditions.