Great golf week at Waikoloa
Blustery winds at the Waikoloa Beach course
I’ve been soaking up the golf at Waikoloa Resort on the Big Island for the last week, and now that we’ve gotten over some of the funkiest weather in the last 20 years, things are rosy. Some uncommonly stormy weather had plagued the islands for the previous month, tailing off just about the time I arrived. Whether that’s Swedish good luck, or the sunshine followed me from Colorado, I haven’t decided yet. But now that I’m here and the weather is balmy, Denver is getting nailed by a late-season blizzard. Hmm.
Both the Robert Trent Jones, Jr.’s Beach Course and Tom Weiskopfs Kings’ Course are playing nice this season. The Kings’ has benefited from some new sand in the greenside bunkers, and the greens and fairways of both courses are looking nice and playing nice.
The whales have been breaching off of the signature par-5 12th at the Beach Course, attracting crowds around the 12th green who also watch the golfers coming in. I received a rousing applause when I sunk a 50-foot putt, which was, somewhat unfortunately, for bogey. Still it was a nice putt and a nice moment.
There are always an abundance of nice moments when playing golf at Waikoloa, or anywhere on the Big Island.
-Bryan Fryklund
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March 31st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
There aren’t too many places in the world where, as you’re lining up your shot, you get distracted by whales breaching. I’ve played in Utah, for instance, and never saw a single whale. Wow! What a nice distraction to have.