Hawaii, Maui Golf Course Reviews
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Golf Course ReviewWailea, Maui, Hawaii
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Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Overview: The Wailea Emerald Course is much easier, and much prettier than its big brother, the Wailea Gold Course. With much more visible lava, flowers and sweeping Ocean views, this course allows the player to enjoy an easy paced round of golf with a little less difficulty, but with a few holes that still require concentration and good ball striking. The best combos of beauty and challenge are reviewed below:
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 1: The first hole plays short, way downhill, and eases the golfer into the round with a wide fairway and easy-to-hit green, complete with nice ocean views throughout.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 1: The first hole plays short, way downhill, and eases the golfer into the round with a wide fairway and easy-to-hit green, complete with nice ocean views throughout.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 3: By no means near the most picturesque or memorable hole on this course, this par three is rather difficult with the left side being quite close to the lava and the deep bunkers framing the right side of the angled green, making it a tough target to hit.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 4: This short par 4 is not difficult but epitomizes the Emerald Course. The tee box is surrounded by flowers and offers wonderful views of lava, the Pacific Ocean, plenty of well-designed sand traps and neighboring islands. The approach just must avoid going long down a steep hill behind the green.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 6: This is likely the most difficult hole on the front with a long drive that has to carry the junk. The par four then doglegs left downhill to a green that seem perched on the edge of the world.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 10: This par four has a blind tee shot that must not go to far or left or it will get wet. It is the approach to the narrow green with water left that will get the players attention, however. Drives that go too far right will find tree trouble at worst or, a tough angle with the right bunkers more in play, at best.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 12: This par four sits in the back corner of the property and the tee box feels like a nature preserve. The hole itself is not too long or difficult but right off the tee is no good. The green is fairly narrow with a very steep drop off to the back and right that needs to be avoided.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 14: Downhill, but fairly long, this par four has OB to the right as its main danger. The approach has a great view to a fairly wide green with ocean views all the way yet again.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 15: While the course gets most of its wow factors from the downhill holes or those that skirt the lava fields, this par four going up the hill has neither of those, but offers a stern challenge and is the best uphill hole on the course.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 17: This short par four is one of only two holes on the course with water, and it shares the same green, and lake as that hole (#10). It has a wide open drive, but is short enough that the player can consider going for the little shoot of fairway leading up to the green. That shot, or the approach had better be precise, however, as the lake is cut close to the green.
Wailea Golf Club, Emerald Course Hole 18: The last hole of the day fights for best all-around hole on the course. A long, but nearly reachable par five, this hole provides great views from tee to green and incorporates all that makes this course fun. The drive is really the only difficult shot as it is relatively tight for the course. Other than that, avoiding the bunkers is the only other key to this beautiful finishing hole.
