Nicklaus keeping busy designing Island course
Advertiser Staff
A bad back might have caused Jack Nicklaus to withdraw from the MasterCard Championship at the Hualalai Golf Club. But it didn't keep him from island hopping from the Big Island to Maui, where he will be competing in the Senior Skins Game at the Wailea Resort's Gold Course Saturday.
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Nicklaus, who turned 62 Monday, was just down the Kona Coast highway from Ka'upulehu to be with club members for a sneak peek of his new Hokulia golf course near Kealakekua Bay.
Jack Nicklaus said he will play in the Senior Skins Game.
He gave a hole-by-hole tour of the first 11 completed holes yesterday and attended a luau.
The members and their guests will play the 11 holes in a special tournament today and tomorrow.
"He is thrilled by the golf course so far," said Darlene Richert, Hokulia's director of sales.
All the remaining fairways have been grassed except the 16th hole, at which Nicklaus will do more design work.
The private course — for members only — is scheduled to open in late April.
From Hawai'i, Nicklaus will travel to Australia and New Zealand, where he will be opening golf courses.
His first Senior Tour event will be the ACE Group Classic in Naples, Fla., early next month.
