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Course Preview: Plantation Course at Kapalua

In the next couple of days, a field of 31 former winners will engulf the beautiful island of Kapalua, Hawaii, for the Mercedes Benz Championship.

The par 73, 7,411-yard Plantation Course, is dubbed the "course of champions" The grand scale of the course designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore unfurls across natural geographic formations and pineapple plantation fields that literally take your breath away.

The course itself, amidst the beauty of Hawaii, is not for the faint of heart. While the driving portion of the course may not set itself apart, the greens, with their bermuda grass, certainly does. Given the course is laid out over the broad sweep of a hill down toward the Pacific Ocean, it's not a surprise that it yields some spectacular downhill holes. The "glamour" holes like the 475 yard 1st, 485 yard 7th, 485 yard 17th, and the 665 yard 18th are indeed unforgettable. The experience of playing them is unique to this golf course. However, what goes down, must go up and it is the quality of the uphill holes that elevate the Plantation Course from a typical resort course with four or five postcard holes to a 'must play' course.

While the field will again be missing Tiger Woods for the third straight year, this will not be a drub tournament. Just for the sights of the course alone is worth it.

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