For more than twenty-five years, the PGA Tour has started its season at Kapalua Resort in Maui, Hawaii. The Plantation Course, with its wide fairways and sweeping views of the Pacific, has become one of the Tour’s most recognizable backdrops. But now it stands eerily silent. Even forcing the general manager of Kapalua Golf and Tennis, Alex Nakajima, to say, “The golf course has been damaged with no water for months. 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.” And the reason?

Since July 25, 2025, Kapalua’s Plantation and Bay courses have been left without irrigation water. The fairways have turned from green to yellow and brown, forcing resort officials to announce a 60-day closure beginning Septe

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