{"id":290531,"date":"2025-11-17T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:15:23","slug":"popular-golfing-range-to-reopen-after-months-of-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290531\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular golfing range to reopen after months of construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Ala Wai Golf Course Driving Range is set to reopen Saturday after about ten months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to reopen the Ala Wai driving range and are looking forward to welcoming back all the golfers,\u201d said Ed Kageyama, owner and founder of Hawaii Golf Advisors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Planned renovations caused the driving range to close temporarily on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials initially planned to reopen the driving range in the spring, but it was delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/mayor\/ala-wai-driving-range-to-temporarily-close-beginning-january-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/mayor\/ala-wai-driving-range-to-temporarily-close-beginning-january-31\/\">the closure was necessary to enhance safety and accessibility.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Ala Wai Golf Course remained open and was not impacted by the construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before the closure, city officials said crews would work on vehicular and pedestrian access bridges and revitalize the driving range grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the city\u2019s Golf Division also assessed the facility and reviewed plans during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New changes include new turf on the driving range, repairs to the irrigation system, new hitting mats, stall dividers, and range balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driving range will be open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., with the following pricing:<\/p>\n<p>Small bucket (35 balls) $10Large bucket (70 balls) $15Rental clubs for $45<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Ala Wai Golf Course Driving Range is set to reopen Saturday after about ten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[60930,133106,167247,64,63,18679,11758,755,99189,244,9051,17165,10228,17812,164279,16863,85],"class_list":["post-290531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-accessibility","tag-advisor","tag-ala-wai","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-closure","tag-construction","tag-golf","tag-golfing","tag-hawaii","tag-months","tag-popular","tag-range","tag-renovation","tag-reopen","tag-safety","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}