Kapalua News

As we discussed previously on this blog, the 2009 Mercedes-Benz Golf Championship was to kick off the PGA Tour’s annual chain of pro golfing events in style. And it delivered, with four days of hard-fought golf by world-class golfer. The tournament took place from January 8-11.

The fact that some of the Tour’s brightest stars - Tiger Woods among them - were not on hand came with a thick silver lining: fans got to focus more than ever on the beauty and grandeur of Maui, Hawaii and the Kapalua Resort.

PGATour.com offers a top-notch summary of Geoff Ogilvy’s wire-to-wire victory, which included his near-complete implosion and collapse during the final round.

Golf Vacation Insider has an excellent article about the merits of the Kapalua Plantation Course. One of the best reasons to golf there is that you can do it all year long - even when much of the world writhes in numbing cold or pulverizing heat. Another compelling reason is the scenery - the rolling ocean waves and brilliant sunshine, the gullies and crevices, the whales gliding through the surf. Finally, you simply must play the 18th hole- all 663 yards of it. There’s a 100-foot-plus drop in elevation in that hole alone.

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