The 2013 Tournament of Champions golf event at Kapalua was postponed for several days due to high winds, and while fears rose of a total wash out was a possibility, the event’s organizers managed to extend the tourney by a day enabling a champion to be anointed.

Kapalua looked just as beautiful as ever and few on . . . → Read More: Kapalua has a 54-hole champion in Dustin Johnson

Without 54-holes to decide a champion, the PGA Tour’s season-opening Tournament of Champions will show a blank for 2013 on its sterling trophy. This is a possibility, but the Tour is doing all it can to figure out a way to avert such an outcome, and if it means a little less coverage for SONY on . . . → Read More: Tuesday is only option as winds cause Sunday stall

Ever since the media officials from the PGA Tour denied the Maui Golf Review the ability to shoot the event from inside the ropes two years ago, I have instead spent the week with family in New York city, following it from afar.

The trip has become, for me, an interesting barometer of how far our isle . . . → Read More: Wind shakes up an already jittery TOC at Kapalua

The Aloha Section held its annual PGA Classic—its principal annual fundraiser—at Kapolei Golf Course, on Oahu, April 29, 2011. Da Game Show creator John Byrne was there to photograph the action as a small front moved in and a wee mist formed. Nary a player was deterred as the festivities continued unabated all climaxing in the golf course’s stunning clubhouse, where the Aloha Section PGA Foundation donated $5,000 of its $31,000 raised to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawaii. (For more information on the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawaii click here.) . . . → Read More: PGA Classic raises money, supports local charities and kids.

“The vibe here is so different,” Dave Ward to told me this afternoon as we exited the media room at the Kaanapali Champions Skins Game at Kaanapali Golf Courses today. “They’re so full of aloha here.” he told me.

Dave lives in Kapalua, and is such a huge fan of golf, and the resort, that he actually . . . → Read More: Open door policy at Kaanapali event.

Have you ever entered a pro shop and found the vibe to be so wrought with arrogance that you were put off? I have heard many a player, and myself have experienced this too, where you go to a place to have fun and the gatekeepers are totally horses asses. Maui has a couple of places . . . → Read More: Kaanapali is truly where the world comes to play.

More than 10 million viewers watched the 2011 Hyundai Tournament of Champions over its four days of coverage on Golf Channel Jan. 6-9.

The 2011 tournament at Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course delivered the highest ratings and viewers since 2008. Overall the Hyundai Tournament of Champions drew a four-round average rating of 0.6 and . . . → Read More: TOC at Kapalua garners best ratings in three years.

Strangely, PGA Tour communications manager Doug Milne never got back to me regarding our credential hold-ups at the SONY Open in Hawaii, even after I sent him two emails asking why we were never approved. Oahu resident and longtime event media host Bill Bachran has always graciously hosted us, but this year, we’ve had nothing but . . . → Read More: Da Game Show to cover Kaanapali Skins Game

While I found myself in the midst of my own tempest during the Hyundai TOC, barely a day has passed after its conclusion before the islands got hit hard by heavy rains, and writers like Rex Hoggard wonder aloud in their blogs about whether the Tour opener should be bidding farewell to Hawaii! Say what?

Hoggard cites . . . → Read More: Storms brew in the Pacific

I visited the new Village Cafe and Sweet Shoppe today and must say that Stuart and Debbie Katz and two busy bees. For those of you who don’t know who they Katz couple is, they run a charity event called the Aloha Team Classic each year to benefit isle children. . . . → Read More: Village Cafe and Sweet Shoppe

I paid a visit to Marry Helle at Wailea Old Blue today and he said play has picked up this week. He had over 150 golfers on S. Maui’s first resort course yesterday, and expected about the same today.

The Dunes is also doing well, not only because of Kahili’s recent mudslides, but because we just have . . . → Read More: Barry Helle at Blue says play is good this week

The stormy weather of late caused mudslides at Kahili and the course was temporarily forced to send golfers around the front nine twice. This pushed a lot of play over to the Dunes and elsewhere.

Dave Gleason was pleasantly surprised that his course, The Dunes, was getting some heavy play, but I know that’s not how he . . . → Read More: Mudslides temporarily force closure of nine holes at Kahili

While most were baking cookies or enjoying a family dinner on Christmas eve, a mass of tourists arrived on Maui for the holidays. I was standing in Kahului airport: meeting and greeting them until the last (American Airlines) flight rolled in at around 10ish.

I had always heard that this time of the year was the busiest, . . . → Read More: Tourists arrive in droves on Xmas eve, but how many golfers?

A lot of people on Maui work very hard, make no money, and do a lot of good for others at their own expense. That’s our Da Game Show star newscaster, Maisie Ramage.

Right now, Maisie is living with her two adorable children, Kannon and Mylee, as a guest in someone’s house. She works odd-jobs all she . . . → Read More: Grace under pressure….

Little Dave was created by a nursery in Texas 9-years ago and has been growing up on our property ever since…

He was made into the image of Big Dave and Bobby Jones (cap and knickers), and he is posing with a lob wedge which he can hit to any tight pin—he regularly holes out at my . . . → Read More: Lil’ Dave ready for N. Pole luv….

Today was photo day in south and central Maui before two photographers: me and Jose Morales succumbs to being under the weather, as the bad weather rolled in.

Rick Castillo took time out from his weekend to set-up all his people at King K and Kahili, and Jennifer McNally and Barry Helle were ready for us in . . . → Read More: Storm pummels Maui.

I was over on the west side of the island today to check out Kaanapali after I heard the resort was to be completely out of carts and buried today, according to their sales and marketing manager Melissa Ludiwg. She shooed me away and told me not to bother. Unfortunately, I had to go to Kapalua . . . → Read More: West Maui full of life today.

Everyday I can swing it, I will post something—anything—about Maui golf to this blog. Today, I’m picking on Mike Jones.

Kapalua’ director of golf is a Chicago transplant with a beautiful family, and a bunch of new responsibilities that give him wide-ranging powers at what many consider as golf’s number one brand. He has been here for . . . → Read More: Mike Jones exemplifies the spirit of the game.

Whenever Jack Nicklaus comes to Maui, if I am here, it is a big day for me. He is one of those pros who gets just how much he is loved by his fans. Tiger? Forget about it. He’s standoffish and snotty. Jack, on the other hand, will stand there and sign autograph . . . → Read More: My Hero: Jack Nicklaus