Every Monday should start this way. Wake up without an alarm at sunrise. Get your coffee and breakfast and head over to the golf course, in this case the Prince Course at Princeville. The course is named after Prince Albert, decended from Kamehameha the Great, and was designed by Robert Trent Jones. The Prince has numerous five star and number one rankings in Hawaii. After playing it you may agree that it is the dragon that needs to be slain. It has at least seven carries over ravines, narrow fairways, greens guarded by orange volcanic sand, jungles, streams, oceans, lakes and streams. The Wai'ala'ale and Kawaikini peaks tower overhead with water from the high elevation Alaka'i Swamp dropping over the precipice as a series of water falls. The average annual rainfall is 430 inches per annum making these misty peaks the wettest land on earth. The peaks provide beauty and a reference for which way your puts will break. The water carved out the terrain that provides the ultimate challenge in golf with monster uphill, downhill, down wind, and up wind shots required. Severe doglegs and ravines add to the challenge.
Cherry played her first round in a year and once again came through with a par 3 on her scorecard. Jerry played from the Ke'oke'o white tees and shot a 98 on par 72.1 slope 133. The dragon that lives in the land of Hanalei is still alive but we look forward to the next match.
The dragon slayer lives! Aloha!
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