Maui, Hawaii - Kaanapali Golf Courses – a USGA-selected site for U.S. Open local and sectional qualifiers for 2005 – is renovating its Resort South Course and clubhouse facility to include a new irrigation installation, regrassing of greens and tee boxes and renovations to the bunkers and landscaped areas surrounding the course.
Robin Nelson, who has designed or redesigned more than 30 courses on the Hawaiian Islands, will oversee the enhancements to the original Arthur Jack Snyder-designed layout. The Resort South Course will close April 1 and is expected to reopen Nov. 15.
In addition to the on-course improvements, the Kaanapali clubhouse interior will be redesigned with an a new retail look, including built-in shelves and storefront displays, and the spacious practice range and teaching facility will be revamped to include new target greens and new turf within the tee line.
Nelson has been charged with adding a more modern flavor to the 6,555-yard, par-71 Resort South Course, which opened in 1976. With holes running along natural canals, gulches and lava rock boundaries, and possessing a playability lacking from so many penal, championship courses.