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than one golf writer has described The Dunes at
Maui Lani golf course as a “British Open course
on Maui.” The Dunes is indeed inspired by
such great venues, with its clever hole designs
and rugged terrain closely mimicking the “birthplace
of golf.” A million years ago, The Dunes
was submerged beneath the sea. Most classic links
courses in Ireland and Scotland are by the water.
But in Hawaii it is a little different because
many of the shorelines are of lava. There are
few real dunes in the islands.
Maui’s Central valley however, known as
the Kahului isthmus, rests between two separate
volcano mountain ranges. Over tens of thousands
of years, as the volcanoes rose, and the sea receded
from the Isthmus, sand dunes formed where The
Dunes at Maui Lani is today. Settlers over the
past two centuries cultivated much of the land,
but the site where The Dunes lies was mostly left
untouched. It is one of the few spots in Hawaii
where true dunes exist.
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