Views you'll see once in a lifetime.

Wet grounds. Will hide your balls on the fairways (bermuda triangle them)

Difficult course with backdrop picture tee's at almost every hole that would make all your golfer buddies envious.

Customer Service

Good. Friendly. Carried the clubs to and from cart.

It was well worth the effort to find this course; it was an absolutely beautiful course! The fairways were a little wet on some holes, which led to the ball plugging (sometimes to the point of disappearing) right in the middle of the fairway, but otherwise a great course. The ball flying through the air against the backdrop of the mountains is a sight you'll never forget. This is definitely a "must play course" when in Hawaii!

Not too crowded even on a Sunday afternoon. Friendly staff even let me out with my wife and 6-year old to watch. Carts come complete with GPS.

The course was a little bare in spots, but you can only imagine how hard it must be to maintain a course like this!

Gorgeous, well-hidden course is well worth the search. The motto "World's Most Challenging Golf Course" is intimidating and I let it get to me the first couple of holes, but once I settled down and concentrated on just putting the ball in the fairway the pars started to come.

Beautiful course. It's like playing in an oversized terrarium. A lovely midst bathed by piercing sunshine often hangs in the air. Lots of target golf, though it's not unfair. Good conditioned fairways. Generous well kept greens. Lots of natural leafy vegetation. If you play the course patiently, you'll be surprised how well you can will shoot. I usually shoot in the mid 80's. I was elated to shoot a 45 and a 47 (92) due to a few lost balls. On one hole a wild boar ran across the fairway. I grabbed my 6 iron hoping I had enough club. But he went his way and I had to forgo having to dig a hole and having an hawaiian cookout. The course is a wonderful and enjoyable test of every shot in your bag so go for it.

I played Koolau on Oct.7,2002 and shot 101. The course was beautiful and was in much better shape than the other public courses here. Tough doesn`t describe it. Eventually I gave up getting mad and amazingly shot much better on the back 9. I only lost 5 balls and posted a 10 on a par 4.

Customer Service

I went on a weekday and was not rushed at all by other players. Staff was nonexistent which is what I like.

Lots of rain to keep the course from drying up!! The scenery and flora are outstanding, like being in a botanical garden. The course plays challenging. Not that hard if played smart.

Carts are bad.... Need more staff in the pro shop.

Overall the course has improved greatly in the last year. The greens are coming back and the fairways are nice. Considering how run down it had gotten, the course superintendent should be commended for the work done. The location makes for very difficult course maintenance.

Customer Service

Fair

The TOUGHEST in the nation (well, maybe in the top 3 - revised slope is 155 from Back tees which are impossible). Twilight rate kicks in after 1PM, greens fees are reasonable for Hawaii courses.

Most holes are "cart path only", tends to slow up play. More often than not you'll get rained on a bit, and this is one of the few courses where you won't need sunscreen. Bring your golf balls, you'll need them. Figure 6-8 lost balls per round unless you're a target golfer and very long.

Greens have improved astronomically since 2001 with the removal of Bermuda and replacement with Seaside pasaplum (sp?). If you like tough courses, this is it. Lots of long carries over ravines. You gotta play it once just to say you did.

Customer Service

Adequate. No refreshment cart in site, but then again I usually play it on weekdays.

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Just the golf, man, just the golf. The facility looks very nice, seems to be a Japanese mecca.

The course is located in a scenic area of Oahu--the Koolau Mountain range. Of course, you can view the scenery without playing the course.

Where to begin? Where to end? 1. It took us 20 minutes to check in at the Pro Shop, since it was staffed by only one (rude) attendant who also was answering two phones. 2. We had a 12:52 tee time; we teed off 20 minutes late because THERE WAS NO STARTER AT THE TEE and THREE SIX-SOMES (yes--six-somes--a group of locals) teed off ahead of us. These 6-somes were authorized to play by the pro shop--I later learned, while talking to a group of golfers on the course at a par 3 backup, that it was common at this course to have large groups of locals--as many as TWELVE-somes (yes, 12 people in one group playing a skins game)--play in tournaments. 2. Our total playing time was 5 hours, 45 minutes. We saw NO MARSHALLS on the course. 3. Our cart had a defective parking brake that spontaneously disengaged on hills--very dangerous on this hilly course. After 9 holes, we complained and were given a different cart with an even worse parking brake. At one point, we had to race after our cart as it rolled down a hill. 4. Many of the water coolers interspersed along the course were empty, and the refreshment cart came by only once during our 6-hour round of golf. 7. The greens were

DO NOT PLAY HERE! An incompetent and unfriendly staff, two defective and dangerous carts, bumpy greens as slow as molasses, and interminably long playing times make this course one to avoid! Yes, the course is difficult, but so is playing on concrete. I'll take concrete over this course.

Customer Service

Very poor. Incompetent cart staff that keeps dangerous carts in service. The club pro and/or course managers should be embarassed and ashamed of the job that they are doing.

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This is a difficult couse to find (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, come to think of it), because there are no signs along highway 83 directing the driver. If you must play, here's how to get to t

Overall layout and mountain scenery.

Greens were bad.

Played course in mid June, 2001. Green's conditions were sub-par. Greens had lots of sand from being aerated. Teeing areas were fine. Holes play tight with little room for error. Shots hits too far left or right are lost. No use looking for them. This is a plus since it does not hold up play. Discounts were only honored on morning pri-time rates. I'm not sure how the one guy played for $35 unless he was a local.

Customer Service

Pro-shop employees were not overly friendly nor rude.

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Lots of trouble to get into. Need to be accurate. Many holes are "target golf" type. Good use of terrain. Scenic.
Very challenging. I shoot in the low-80's. I posted a 92 here. GPS system on the carts is a real treat. Takes the guess work out of things.

Many of the Greens are in horrible shape, but that's about it.

The course has some of the best scenery of eastern Oahu.
Very challenging holes. I would have preferred to play every hole from the tips, but the markers were not set up this day. Played several holes from them anyway.
I can remember at least a half-dozen greens being spotty and/or chewed up pretty bad. The greens keeper should be canned!! The overall experience was worthwhile.

Customer Service

Staff was friendly all-around.

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Golf shop, Good. Range, fair (could not use drivers that day)