Lahaina’s golf reputation is built on West Maui’s two great stages: Kapalua’s Plantation Course, longtime host of the PGA Tour’s Sentry Tournament of Champions, and the Kaanapali Golf Courses that sit closer to the resort strip. The Plantation’s sweeping fairways and Pacific vistas remain among the most photographed in golf, while Kaanapali offers a more walkable resort rhythm for visitors who want ocean air without the Tour-scale climb.
Trade winds are not a footnote here—they are a club-selection factor that can turn a short iron into a hybrid between tee and green. Even as West Maui rebuilds and recovers after recent hardships, golf continues to frame the coastline’s identity: early tee times over pineapple-era landforms, late light on the channel toward Lanai, and a sense that every round is inseparable from the island itself.