It’s a good thing that they put brakes on the place.
This week’s PGA Tour event, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, will be played on a piece of Hawaiian land so severe that co-designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw had to create places for the ball to stop roiling out lest it amble on forever. That’s what happens when you try to tame a site with more than 300 feet of elevation change.
In the late 1980s, Coore heard from his design partner that the land on Maui’s northwest coast looking toward Molokai was “rising gently from the sea.