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Meet Our Ohana: Alex Ruhlman
Tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Alex Ruhlman, and I work in guest services at The Bay Course. Many times, I have been a visitor, but now I'm proud (and honestly a little relieved) to finally call myself a resident. I’ve been bouncing around the last few years...
Stop Starting from Scratch!
Use Your Athletic Background to Fast-Track Your Golf Swing. Leveraging Your Athletic Background: Finding Familiar Skills in Your Golf Swing One of the real privileges of being here at Kapalua, with its iconic Plantation and Bay Courses, is observing the incredible...
Ohana Series Vol 14: Tyler Phillips
Tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Tyler Phillips, and I am one of the Assistant Golf Professionals here at Kapalua. I’ve been here for a little over four years now, but I was previously at Kahili Golf Course for three years on Maui, and before that, I worked as...
Post-Shot Routines:
A Timeless Mental Game Strategy by TD When you step onto Kapalua's fairways, you'll notice that skilled players have a consistent pre-shot routine. It's a fundamental part of playing better golf that hasn't changed over the decades. Yet many of us still struggle...
2024 Kapalua Gift Guide
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Developing Good Habits
Developing Good Habits When we first started to play the game, we had no habits; good or bad. We just instinctively swung trying to make some kind of decent contact with the ball. As Ben Hogan once said, "There is nothing natural about the golf swing." In other words,...
Transition: The Hardest Move in Golf
By Tim Dietrich The great Ben Hogan said that the biggest fault in the average golfer is that they don’t start down with their lower body from the top of the swing. Why is the transition so hard? Well first of all it occurs at the moment when the golf club is most...
Meet Our Ohana Series: Vol. 13 Fred Fernando
Can you share a bit about your background? My name is Fred Fernando, and I am originally from the Philippines. I moved to Hawaii in 1996. For four years, I lived in Oahu before moving to Maui in 2000. The first job I held in Maui was as a resort...
August 8th, 2024
This week, we honor the lives lost in the Lāhainā fires, and reflect on the incredible strength that the community of West Maui has shown this year. The one-year mark seems a fitting time to give a few Kapalua Golf & Tennis Ohana updates. 1/3rd of our workers lost...