{"id":103731,"date":"2025-08-28T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:46:06","slug":"dying-kapalua-may-not-host-its-pga-tour-event-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103731\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dying’ Kapalua May Not Host Its PGA Tour Event in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are concerns that Kapalua might not be able to host the PGA Tour\u2019s season-opening Sentry in early January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe golf course has been damaged with no water for months,\u201d Alex Nakajima, the general manager of Kapalua Golf and Tennis, told the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cI proposed to the owner that we need to shut the golf course to increase our chances to save the golf course and the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Hawaiian course is undergoing a 60-day closure, starting on Sept. 2. It hasn\u2019t had water since July 25 and currently has a yellow and brown shade as its grass continues to die.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The course has filed a lawsuit against Maui Land & Pineapple, claiming the water delivery system has not been properly cared for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMLP has knowingly … allowed the Ditch System to fall into a state of demonstrable disrepair. That disrepair, not any act of God, or force of nature, or other thing, is why users who need it are currently without water,\u201d the lawsuit says, according to the AP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also alleges: \u201cWater is scarce not because rain is falling in significantly smaller quantities. Rather, water is scarce because MLP has failed to honor its promises to maintain the infrastructure used to collect, carry, and store it properly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The PGA Tour is reportedly monitoring the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shutting down the course now appears to be Kapalua’s best shot at hosting the Sentry next January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to do this immediately,\u201d Nakajima said. \u201cEvery day the golf course is dying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are concerns that Kapalua might not be able to host the PGA Tour\u2019s season-opening Sentry in early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-103731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}