Custom Kapalua — Plantation Course artwork, made to order — a hand-styled map of the course, a painting-style print of your favorite hole, or a finished photo from your round.
Created from actual data — every tee, fairway, bunker, and green, all in vivid detail.
In 1991, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw built their first course together on the slopes above Kapalua Bay, on Maui's remote northwest coast — a stretch of old pineapple land climbing the flank of the West Maui Mountains toward the clouds. Neither had worked a mountainside site of this scale before, and neither would find quite this much room again: the routing falls several hundred feet from its highest point to its lowest, through pine and ironwood and old cane grass, with the Pacific spread out below on nearly every hole.
The real co-architect, though, is the wind. Kapalua sits squarely in one of Maui's trade-wind corridors, and Coore and Crenshaw built the Plantation Course around it rather than against it — fairways sixty, seventy, even ninety yards wide, greens open in front, angles that reward a player who can read a gust as well as a green. The course plays wildly differently depending on which way the trades are blowing that morning, which is precisely the point: this is a course of decisions, not just distance.
No hole says it better than the 18th, a downhill par 5 that stretches beyond 660 yards from the tips and still gets reached in two by the game's longest hitters, dropping through old pineapple ground toward a green just above the clubhouse and the sea. It is one of the most photographed finishing holes in golf, and one of the few anywhere where a big tee shot with a following trade wind can turn a three-shot hole into a two-shot decision.
Since 1999, the Plantation Course has opened the PGA Tour's calendar year, hosting the Tour's winners-only event — first as the Mercedes Championship, later under sponsors from Hyundai to Sentry — where every man in the field has already won a tournament that season or the one before. David Duval took the inaugural Kapalua title in 1999; Stuart Appleby won three years running, 2004 through 2006; and in January 2025, Hideki Matsuyama closed at 35 under par, the lowest score to par in PGA Tour history, on a course still capable of humbling anyone who misreads the wind.
Museum-quality Kapalua Plantation Course map art, traced from real course data — every bunker, green, and fairway. A mountainside course above the Pacific, home to the PGA Tour's season-opening Tournament of Champions since 1999. Four designs, six sizes, or personalized with your own round photo.
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