The Toughest of the Kauai Golf Courses to Play on a Hawaii Golf Vacation

If you're lucky enough to be planning a Kauai, Hawaii golf vacation and you'd like to really test your game while you're there, the Prince Course at the Princeville Resort may be exactly what you're looking for. Just be sure to allow at least two rounds to fully appreciate this tough, tropical layout.

While the course rides up and down the cliffs that overlook the Pacific, the holes themselves never really engage with the ocean. Instead, this Robert Trent Jones, Jr., design, which opened in 1990, plays through tropical ravines and thick jungle vegetation with some 65 bunkers, tight fairways, long forced carries, testy trade winds, ample elevation changes, and even a lake to contend with.

It's an exhilarating course to play on a Hawaii golf vacation, but right from the start, little mercy is shown. For example, the first hole is a 400-yard, downhill par four that requires an accurate tee shot to a fairway that slopes dangerously to the....

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