Westin Hapuna Beach Resort (Hawaii Island)

The course had been aerated about a week before we played and we notified of this prior to signing up for a tee time. The conditions were a bit worse than expected on the greens so the round was not enjoyable and they did not discount for the aeration as far as I could tell. It played fast as there was almost no one on the course.

Hapuna is a great value on Golf Now Super Saver Rate. Beautiful views of the Kohola-Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The Arnold Palmer-Ed Seay design has lots of topography changes and provides plenty of challenge from any of the tees selected. Watch out for a couple of tough par 5 holes; #3 and # 15. They will change your scorecard in a hurry and not into birdie or eagle numbers. Take more club to an elevated green on #3 and don't be a hero and try and cut off more than you can chew on your 2nd shot on #15. Hapuna is always on our short list of great course/value golf on the Big Island. Only negative was pro shop staff. They were running a promotion for Taylor Made Balls and made the Golf Now players with reservations feel like second class citizens. I know enough about the golf business to know that Taylor Made gave them enough balls to give to all their paid players to try out a sleeve of balls.. They refused to give them to us as "we had got a better deal on Golf Now" than booking through them (the course). Baloney, they were hoarding the balls for themselves!

This is a challenging but fair course, beautiful views, greens in good shape, by far the best course for the price on the Big Island. I would play it again on my next trip to Hawaii.