Golf in Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii and the state's only major city, a metropolitan area of nearly a million people that serves as the political, economic, and cultural center of the Hawaiian Islands. The city encompasses Waikiki Beach, the historic downtown with Iolani Palace, the Pearl Harbor memorials, Diamond Head crater, and the cultural institutions of a world city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Four golf facilities within the Honolulu city limits serve the full range of the community: Ala Wai Golf Course provides the municipal recreational option for the island's most urban population, while Honolulu Country Club, O'ahu Country Club, and Wai'alae Country Club—host of the PGA Tour Sony Open—serve the private membership traditions of a city whose wealth supports a golf culture of considerable depth.