HAWAII (El Mercuric, Santiago, Chile. Group de Diaries America) .- There is no geographical area has more golf courses in Hawaii. The islands are fighting two PGA tournaments and a couple of Senior Tour. 

But do not be a professional to play in Hawaii. This is a report for golfers looking for an alternative holiday to be mixed with your favorite sport.

Not have to be Tiger Woods to play at The Plantation Course, perhaps the best golf of the Hawaiian archipelago. If you love the sticks and have the resources to choose a place where you would like to show off his technique, what better to play in the

Hawaii is much more than beaches, natural landscapes and surf. Today, one of the largest tourism revenue of the islands is related to golf. Nothing strange for a place that exceeds the hundreds of courts in just a few square kilometers.

Hawaii offers everything for lovers of the sticks. Luxurious hotels, resorts, traditional villas and apartments for rent, all with yards and yards of fine grass, usually shorts-style for the enjoyment of golf. Sure, some of these courts are public and have a simpler layout and less spectacular than the more complex.

But Hawaii has gems whose ranking is set by the PGA Tour and ready to serve anyone. The most important: Waianae, on the outskirts of Honolulu, home of the Sony Open.

Waianae, yes, has a peculiarity: to visit must be a friend of a partner or a professional player qualified for the second tournament of the year. Designed in 1927, stepping on your lawn costs $ 50 per day. Nothing compared to the thousands who should it cost to join. If you can. But there are many others that do allow the visit.

Hawaii is the archipelago's largest island which gives its name. Offers thirteen resorts and tennis three times in a memorable color contrast.

A few miles west of the airport is Kona Koala Coast, which has four resorts in the most fabulous beaches of Hawaii. They are Hualalai, Waikoloa, Mauna Lanai and Mauna Kea.

The first bears the name of the extinct volcano whose last eruption dates from 1810. Jack Nicolas designed a field that accompanies the elegant Four Seasons Hotel and created the Hualalai Golf Club, 7100 yards.

The use is reserved only for hotel guests and the owners of neighboring properties. The crown jewel: the 12th hole with a bunker in the middle of the green. A package that includes hotel for two people and field use costs about $ 520 per night.

The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is Kanaka Bay, and has the Mauna Kea GC 18 holes (7114 yards). Your best flag is the third, a par three of 208 yards that goes into the ocean. In the midst of Hualalai and Mauna Kea is the Waikoloa Beach Resort, with two fields adjacent to the sea: the Beach Course and the King Course.

Finally, Mauna Lanai Resort, consisting of the Hotel Mauna Lanai Bay and The Orchid, tennis has two 18-hole layout known as North (6913 yards) and south (6938), real black holes carved into the volcanic rock. In the southern route is held each year the Pens game for veterans.

These three resorts have similar prices: $ 550 per night for two, and 175 per day for the court.

Across the archipelago, the island of Kauai has four generous areas on golf courses. The more fed the eastern coast in Kapaau and Waialua, where new resorts that are located together a whopping 2116 rooms and the beautiful fields and Kiele Course Lagoons Course, two of the 18 labeled with a gold medal, both designed by Nicolas.

Both have a privileged view of the sea, mixed flat and steep holes, much like the Golden Bear. Prices are high: a package for two with a right to the stadium costs $ 700 for the weekend. The others present tourist offers from $ 500.

In the north of the island is Hanalei Bay, where the Princeville Resort is located on the slopes of Mount Machine. Prince Course is 7309 yards of fairways and greens, from which enjoys a view of the Pacific.

The best time to go is between November and April, but if you happen rain, visit Lahaina, a town in the nineteenth century, full of art galleries.