Capalua Resort, Hawaiian courses, where the PGA round began every year since 1999, two months closed as they are trying to preserve their water batteries courses in a dispute over the Centennial Water System Management Maui.
60 days closing, which begins on September 2. For the Plantation and Bay course in Capalua, it was a concern that he might not be able to organize Sentry to start a tour of 2026. Season.
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“The golf course was damaged without water for several months,” Alex Nakajima, CEO of Kapalua Golf and Tennis said Tuesday. “I offered the owner that we need to close the golf course to increase our ability to preserve the golf course and tournament.”
He feels that we are best hoping to use what Kapalua gets low water to slowly relax the fertilizer and prevent customers from the track until the staff removes dead grass.
Kapalua, known for its lush green fairway contrasts and the Pacific Blue Horizon, are now more of a yellow and brown mixture when the grass dies. Nakajima said the courses from July 25th. Had no water.
Tadashi Yanai, a Japanese billionaire who owns Kapalua and founded the clothing brand Uniqlo, Kapalua home owners and Hua Momona Farms, filed a lawsuit last week by claiming that it did not survive the water delivery system.
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The center of the dispute has a 11 -mile Honokohau stream and ditch system operating from the West Maui Mountains and supplying irrigation water to the Kapalua area.
“MLP deliberately … allowed the ditch system to enter the obviously derelict state. It is abandoned, not by God, or the forces of nature or other thing, why consumers who need it are currently without water,” the lawsuit said.
Maui Land & Pineapple did not immediately respond to AP message looking for a comment. Race Randle, CEO, said in a report in Hawaii News Outlets, the action was an effort to get irrigation water “When Western Maui is under historical drought”.
“After trying and failing to force the regulatory agencies to force this irresponsible use of water, the golf courses, unfortunately, went to court,” he said.
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The court’s lawsuit alleges that the Yanai was a “water delivery agreement” when he bought Kapalua real estate, which would allow the courses to be held in good condition. The application states that these arrangements have set the land to “always commercially reasonable efforts to manage, repair and maintain” the ditch system for reliably delivering irrigation water.
PGA Tour only said she was watching “ongoing water protection requirements affecting the Capalua resort”.
During the trip, it was said to have been in contact with the Title Sponsor, Wisconsin, located by Sentry Insurance, as well as Kapalua Resort, Maui County and Hawaii State Government to estimate any potential impact on the $ 20 million event. The tournament is scheduled for January 8-11.
Ty Management – Yanai company – said Sentry offers about $ 50 million economic benefits, as well as a tour of the Sentry charity component.
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A lawsuit filed by a court in the State Court for Maui requests the Maui Land and Pineapple Honor Agreements and to take reasonable action for the repair and supervision of the ditch system to keep the water reliably delivered.
The court’s lawsuit states that the current drought does not affect the problem and quotes US geological research showing that pools in the Western Maui Mountains receive more annual precipitation than Portland and Seattle.
“There is no water because the rain is reduced in significantly smaller quantities. There is little water because MLP has failed to honor its promises to maintain the infrastructure used to collect, carry and store properly,” the lawsuit says.
Meanwhile, Troon, controlled by Troon, offered customers discounts due to the worsening conditions of his golf course.
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Nakajima said the course would have to be closed to expect the Sentry to be built.
“We have to do it right away,” he said. “Every day the golf course dies.”
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Sinto Kelleher Honolulu contributed to this report.
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