Play Kapalua Plantation Course Like You've Seen It 100 Times
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This is NOT a yardage book. This CaddyTips® guide delivers hole-by-hole written strategy, telling you exactly where to aim, what to avoid, and how to think your way around the course—before you ever step onto the first tee.
Whether you're a low-handicap player looking to fine-tune your approach or a higher-handicap golfer trying to avoid big numbers, CaddyTips® gives you the playbook to attack every hole with confidence.
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Built from years of local caddy experience, this guide reveals the preferred landing areas, safest misses, wind-adjusted targets, and strategic decisions that help you play one of golf's greatest bucket-list courses with confidence.
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AI-powered analysis identifies the strategic characteristics that define the Plantation Course, including elevation-adjusted yardages, prevailing trade wind patterns, preferred landing areas, rollout strategy on firm fairways, approach angles into expansive greens, and the highest-percentage decisions on every hole.
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HOLE 1 - THE SPEED SLOT OPENER
520-yard downhill par 4 — but ranked the #1 handicap
Par 4 - 520 / 503 / 446 yds.
Tee Shot
The first hole is a stern welcome to paradise with sweeping views of the bay and a very large fairway, which you will find a lot of here. That is why CaddyTips® recommends that you select a very laser-like, specific target on every tee. CaddyTips® finds that out here, it can be easiest to pick a spot just a couple of inches in front of your ball that aligns with your target line and focus on setting up and aligning to the spot.
This fairway slopes steeply downhill, and the ideal target is left-center of the fairway to find the speed slot. This target will also help you avoid the bunkers that guard the right rough. The Tradewinds are one of the course's greatest defenses, and it's important that you gauge the wind before every shot. This tee shot normally has a prevailing right-to-left crosswind that should also act like a tailwind. CaddyTips® recommends teeing the ball a bit higher with your driver here to launch it higher to ride that wind.
Low-handicap: driver is definitely the play here, but no need to overswing it; let the wind and gravity do all the work. Mid-High handicap: driver is recommended here due to the extremely wide fairway, and you want less backspin off the tee to get that downhill roll. Stay laser-focused on that target as it's easy to get caught up in the view.
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