Kapalua is 'Dying' and Will be Closed for 60 Days

The Sentry at Kapalua is the annual return to golf. After a few months of meaningless tournaments and hit-and-giggles, the PGA TOUR returns in Hawaii and welcomes a new season. And for someone who is stuck outside Boston during the winter, it’s nice to see blue skies, the ocean, and palm trees on my TV.

But according to Alex Nakajima, the general manager of Kapalua Golf and Tennis, the golf course might not be ready to host the TOUR come January.

“The golf course has been damaged with no water for months,” he told the Associated Press. “I proposed to the owner that we need to shut the golf course to increase our chances to save the golf course and the tournament.”

The course hasn’t received water since July 25, and is filing a lawsuit against Maui Land & Pineapple. Part of the lawsuit, according to the AP, reads: “MLP 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.”

Starting on September 2, Kapalua will be closed for 60 days, as Nakajima said, “We have to do this immediately.”

“Every day the golf course is dying.”