Course Overview

Host site for the PGA TOUR since 1965, Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a classic, old-style golf course with flat terrain and large greens. A natural stream and a lake come into play on a number of holes on this 7,060-yard course that was originally a par-72 configuration but has been a par-70 layout for the TOUR since 1999. The course's nines are flipped for the Sony Open, with the long par-4 10th hole, one of the toughest on TOUR, serving as the first hole. The regular opening hole (now the 10th) a par-4 of 488 yards, was inspired by the Road Hole on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. Wind tends to be a huge factor in scoring and the course can play tough from the Bermuda rough, which this year has been shaved back an inch to 2 ½ inches. John Huston and Brad Faxon share the tournament record at 260. Davis Love’s 60 in 1994 is the competitive course record. Each hole owns a Hawaiian name.

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#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6
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COURSE HISTORY

Seth Raynor, whose works include storied layouts like Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., and Chicago Golf Club, designed Waialae Country Club in 1927 in the southeastern corner of Oahu, near the famous Diamond Head volcano. A protégé of Charles Blair MacDonald, Raynor was a civil engineer who died shortly before beginning work on a strip of coastal land on the Monterrey Peninsula in northern California that Alister Mackenzie eventually turned into Cypress Point Club. Classic Raynor design touches at Waialae CC can be found at No. 1 and 17. The former is reminiscent of the 17th at St. Andrews, the Road Hole, as previously mentioned. The signature hole is the par-3 17th, 189 yards; it features a Redan design, which Raynor was inclined to use on all of his courses. Bob Baldock in 1966 oversaw a renovation of Waialae CC, which is one of just two courses to host a single PGA TOUR event for at least 30 years.