Golf in Pahala

Pahala is a small community in the Ka'u district on the southern Big Island, a former sugar plantation town that has transitioned to an agricultural community of macadamia nut orchards and diversified farming in the decades since the sugar industry's closure. The Ka'u district's isolation—between the active lava zones of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to the north and the remote coastline to the south—gives Pahala a character of genuine remoteness within the larger context of a small island state. Sea Mountain Golf Club serves the small residential community of Ka'u in a setting where the surrounding agricultural landscape and the proximity to the active volcanic zone give the area a natural drama that its modest population size belies.