Waialae Country Club is a private country club in East Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded 96 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. 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. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Waialae Golf Course were built by the Territorial Hotel Co. as part of a promotional program to develop luxury travel trade to Hawaii. Matson Navigation Co. built the luxury passenger liner Malolo as part of this program. The hotel and golf course lands were leased from the Bernice P. Bishop Estate; the course opened for play on February 1, 1927. The par three 13th is designed from one on the Biarritz Course in France. Waialae's 8th hole is patterned after the famous Redan hole on the North Berwick Golf Club in Scotland. The special 16th hole is similar to the 6th hole of the National Golf Links of America at Southampton, Long Island. The 10th Hole introduces features of the 17th or Road hole at St. Andrews in Scotland. 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. From Wikipedia
