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The Plantation Golf Course • Kapalua Golf Resort, Maui

The Mercedes-Benz Championship is the opening event of golf’s PGA Tour season. The field is restricted to golfers who won an event on the Tour in the previous season. It is played the first weekend in January, and has been at Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii, since 1999. The event was played in Las Vegas, Nevada from the event’s inception in 1953 until 1968, first at The Desert Inn Golf & Country Club until 1966, and then at Stardust Country Club. After that, it began a 30-year relationship with La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, which lasted until the event was moved to its current location in Hawaii.

The par 73, 7,411-yard Plantation Course, is the course of the champions, site of the PGA TOUR Mercedes-Benz Championship each January featuring an elite field of previous year’s PGA TOUR winners. The field has included golf greats such as Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Justin Leonard, Ernie Els, Davis Love III and many more. The grand scale of the course designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore unfurls across natural geographic formations and pineapple plantation fields that take your breath away.

The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua is a great luxury golf resort to stay at while attending the tournament. All golf club rentals and golf equipment rentals can be delivered directly to the hotel prior to your outing. Contact this golf club rental company to reserve rentals for this tournament.

For Tee Time reservations before and after the tournament visit http://www.kapalua.com/hawaii-golf/plantation-golf-course.php

The tournament schedule is as follows:

Monday, January 1, 2007
Practice Round – Day 1

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Practice Round – Day 2

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Pro-Am

Thursday, January 4, 2007
First Round

Friday, January 5, 2007
Second Round

Saturday, January 6, 2007
Third Round

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Final Round

Blog reference:
http://www.kapalua.com/hawaii-golf/pga-tournament/

http://www.bizzspotlight.com/2007/06/kapalua_resort_in_maui_hawaii.html