Volcano Golf & Country Club

Overview: Volcano Golf & Country Club is a high-elevation Big Island course near Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. This high-elevation layout sits around 4,000 feet on the rim landscape of Kīlauea, with native ʻōhiʻa trees, cool air and views toward Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. The volcanic setting affects both the vegetation and the way the ball travels.

History: The course was built in 1921, while architectural references credit Arthur Jack Snyder with a later design in the late 1960s. Those dates describe different stages of the facility’s history, so the profile keeps the original course date and identifies Snyder as the documented architect associated with the later routing.

Did You Know? The course is part of the habitat of the nēnē, Hawaii’s state bird. The operator notes nēnē nesting around the property, making the course’s high-elevation vegetation an ecological feature as well as a visual one.