The Kauai Lagoons Resort features two excellent golf facilities, both designed by Jack Nicklaus. The championship Kiele Course is the more demanding of the two. It was recently voted one of the top 100 golf courses in America by Golf magazine. The other course is the Lagoons Course. A much more forgiving layout, Lagoons is built in a rolling, Scottish-links style. Wide open fairways and very little water make this a good course for resort play.

A Robert Trent Jones, Jr., design located in sunny Poipu is the Kiahuna Golf Club. An 18-hole gem, Kiahuna offers up every kind of hazard you can imagine…and some you’d never dream of. For example, have you ever hit into a Blind Eye Spider Cave? You might at Kiahuna. This design will keep you guessing.

Poipu Bay Resort is the newest resort course on Kauai. This par-72, 18-hole layout is situated next to the new Hyatt Regency Kauai in Poipu. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., this is a fun and challenging seaside layout that, depending on which set of tees the golfer uses, can be stretched from 5,241 yards all the way to 6,959 yards. Built along the open cliffs on Keoneloa Bay, Poipu Bay Resort has 86 bunkers. Within the confines of the course some interesting old Hawaiian heiau have been preserved, and there is a great stretch of finishing holes along the water.

The spectacular resort area of Princeville has long been hailed as a golfing mecca. The Robert Trent Jones, Jr.-designed Princeville Makai Golf Course consists of three distinct nines—Woods, Lake and Ocean—all of which offer challenging golf and dramatic views of the verdant north shore of Kauai. The Lake nine and the Ocean nine both lead down to the cliffs overlooking the Pacific, with the Ocean sporting one hole—the seventh—that shoots over a windy Pacific inlet to a green on the next cliff side. The Woods is an inland design, but is every bit as beautiful. Golf Digest has listed the Makai Course among its Top 25 Resort Courses and in “America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses” for 16 consecutive years.