Kapalua plantation golf club Sentry Championship Ben Crenshaw/Bill Coore pga

Description

Kapalua Resort
is a
golf
and beach resort in
Kapalua, Hawaii
on the northwest shore of the island of
Maui
near
Lahaina, Hawaii
. It is owned by
Maui Land & Pineapple Company
.
The Plantation Course is unique among PGA Tour courses in several ways. It is the only course on the tour that plays to par 73; all others play to pars between 70 and 72. It is also the only course with seven holes of more than 500 yards, but at the same time is one of only two courses (
Pebble Beach
being the other) with six par-4s of less than 400 yards. The elevation changes on the course are starkly illustrated by looking at the 17th, 18th, and 1st holes as a set. The 17th starts atop a mountain, and the course slopes downward through the 18th, with the 1st completing the descent. These three holes play to a combined 1,691 yards for the tour professionals, with only the 18th (at 663 yards) being par-5.
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The Plantation Course and The Bay Course are owned by TY Management. On April 1, 2011, Troon Golf was selected to oversee the golf operations at both courses.
It is home to the season-opening event on the
PGA Tour
, the winners-only
Sentry Tournament of Champions
, each January. Formerly sponsored by
Mercedes-Benz
, in 2010 and 2017 it was sponsored by the
Seoul Broadcasting System
,
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and between 2011-16 it was sponsored by
Hyundai Motor Company
.
[3]
In 2018, the event became sponsored by
Sentry Insurance
.