Moanalua Golf Club

Overview: Moanalua Golf Club is a compact nine-hole loop in the Moanalua Valley, with mature trees, a stream and trade winds shaping a very local Honolulu round. The course is short by modern standards, but out-of-bounds on every hole and the valley’s tight corridors make accuracy important. It is a small-scale course with a long place in Hawaii golf history.

History: The club identifies itself as Hawaii’s first golf course, established in 1898, with Donald MacIntyre associated with the layout. The current facility remains a compact local loop and allows public play after the morning member period, preserving the club’s neighborhood role within the Moanalua landscape.

Did You Know? Moanalua is unusual because its history reaches back to the nineteenth century, before Hawaii’s later resort golf boom. The stream and valley vegetation are not decorative themes, they are the natural structure around which the short routing developed.