Golf in Kualapuu

Kualapuu is a small community on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, in the upland plateau above the Kalaupapa Peninsula where the former Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and national historical park occupy the isolated sea cliffs below. Molokai's population is predominantly Native Hawaiian, and the island has maintained a distinctly local, community-oriented identity through decades in which other Hawaiian islands accepted large-scale resort development. Ironwood Hills Golf Club provides nine-hole golf for the Kualapuu community and the broader Molokai population on an island where the preservation of community character over commercial development has been a consistent community priority. The island's protected status as a site where large-scale commercial development is not permitted—maintained through a combination of community values and land ownership patterns—gives Molokai a character as the most genuinely rural and Hawaiian-community-focused of the main islands.