Princeville Resort (Prince Course) - Hawaii, U.S.A.

The Prince Course at the Princeville Resort is Hawaii's ultimate combination of the dramatic, exotic, and punishing. The nearby ocean cliffs and bosky green mountains of the island of Kauai are favorite settings for Hollywood forays into the jungle, including South Pacific, Raiders if the Lost Ark, and King Kong, with Mount Makana serving as the Bali Hai of South Pacific. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the Prince's fairways are terraced through a lush jungle of mango trees, laced with ravines, and bisected by Anini Stream, which cascades from the red-ore rock walls on the 13th hole. Princeville is named after the Hawaiian prince, Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Leiopapa A. Kamehameha, the only child of Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV, who died at age four. In 1860, when the Prince was two years old, his parents took him on their holiday at the ranch plantation of their foreign minister, a Scot named Robert Crichton Wyllie. Wyllie was so charmed by the little Prince that he named his 11,000-acre plantation Princeville.

Mauna Kea Golf Course - Hawaii, U.S.A.

The luxurious Mauna Kea Beach Hotel was developed by Laurance Rockefeller in 1964 on the Big Island overlooking Kaunaoa Bay and set against the backdrop of Mauna Kea, or "White Mountain" in Hawaiian, a 13,784-foot-high volcanic peak that is dusted with snow. Rockefeller brought in Robert Trent Jones, the world's most renowned golf architect, to design the course. Rockefeller's main concern was whether a course could be built over the black lava fields. Jones, with typical bravado, assured him that grass could grow on the lava. It turned out that the crushed lava, pulverized using specially designed ribbed rollers, produced beautiful turf. Mauna Kea, with its contrast of plush green bordered by black, set the standard for what has become the hallmark of golf in Hawaii. It is a bold course designed on a large scale. The most famous hole is the par-three third, which plays from a tee perched on a great pile of lava to a green 210 yards across the inlet of the Pacific that is home to giant manta rays. Mauna Kea was inaugurated with a match between the Big Three of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player.