Waialae Country Club

Country club in Honolulu, Hawaii

21°16′19″N 157°46′30″W / 21.272°N 157.775°W / 21.272; -157.775LocationEast Honolulu, HawaiiElevationSea levelEstablished1927; 97 years ago (1927)TypePrivateTotal holes18Events hostedSony Open in HawaiiGreensTifdwarf BermudaFairwaysWinter ryegrassWebsitewww.waialaecc.comWaialae Country ClubDesigned bySeth RaynorPar72Length7,125 yards (6,515 m)Course rating74.6Slope rating141 ^[1]

Waialae Country Club is a private country club in East Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded 97 years ago in 1927 and designed by Seth Raynor, it is a par 72 championship course at 7,125 yards (6,515 m) from the Championship tees. From the Members tees at 6,456 yards (5,903 m), the course rating is 71.8 with a slope rating of 136.^[1]

The Waialae golf course hosts the Sony Open in Hawaii on the PGA Tour in January, the first full-field event of the calendar year. The event has had several corporate sponsors since its founding in 1965 as the Hawaiian Open.

Waialae was featured in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game, True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club, and a Nintendo 64 game Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics, as well as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 from EA Sports and a handful of earlier games in the franchise.

Location

In the 2000 U.S. Census the U.S. Census Bureau defined the K-8 campus as being in the urban Honolulu census-designated place.^[2] For the 2010 U.S. Census the bureau created a new census-designated place, East Honolulu.^[3]^[4]

Origin of Wai'alae

Wai'alae is a Hawaiian word for spring water of the mud hen, which comes from mud hen ('alae) and spring water (wai).^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

wai

In the 1830s and 1840s, the location of the artesian spring for the spring water, or wai, in Wai'alae was a closely guarded secret known only by an elderly couple. King Kamehameha III drank from this spring while visiting. During the twentieth century, the location of the spring became unknown.^[12]^[13]

'alae

The wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands are a winter habitat for the American coot which is also known as "mud hen".^[14] The Hawaiian mud hen, or 'alae, which is referred to in Wai'alae, is the endemic Gallinula sandvicensis and is a close relative of the coot.^[5]^[15] Mud hens, moorhens, marsh hens, and swamp hens are closely related.^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b "Course Rating and Slope Database™ - Waialae Country Club". USGA. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
^ "CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: HONOLULU CDP" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-10-10. - The area is on 17 and 18.
^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): East Honolulu CDP, HI" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-10-10. - Pages 1 and 2
^ "Home". Kalani High School. Retrieved 2020-10-10. 4680 Kalanianaole Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96821
^ ^a ^b Andrews, Lorrin (1922) [1865]. "1" (pdf). In Parker, Henry Hodges; Bishop Museum; Emerson, J. S.; Mahaulu, Stephen; et al. (eds.). A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see alae). Honolulu, Hawai'i: The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i. p. 47. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Andrews, Lorrin (1922) [1865]. "12" (pdf). In Parker, Henry Hodges; Bishop Museum; Emerson, J. S.; Mahaulu, Stephen; et al. (eds.). A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see wai). Honolulu, Hawai'i: The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i. p. 612. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Andrews, Lorrin (1922) [1865]. "13" (pdf). In Parker, Henry Hodges; Bishop Museum; Emerson, J. S.; Mahaulu, Stephen; et al. (eds.). A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see Waialae). Honolulu, Hawai'i: The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i. p. 672. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Parker, Henry H. "Ulukau, A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language: (see Waialae)". ulukau.org. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ "Hawaiian Dictionaries: Wai-'alae, Wai'alae, Waialae". Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ "Mud Hen Water: The Mo'olelo of mud hen water". Mud Hen Water Wai'alae Restaurant. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ "'Aina It Sweet: The best chef you've never heard of is in Honolulu". Tasting Table. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Sigall, Bob. The Companies We Keep.
^ Sigall, Bob (August 21, 2016). "The Springs of Waialae". Sotheby's. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
^ Hoyo, Josep del (1996). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 8487334202.
^ ^a ^b Gallinula is the diminutive of gallīna ("hen"). It is anglicized gallinule in older zoological texts. "gallinule". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)