{"id":380313,"date":"2025-11-15T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380313\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:28:10","slug":"popular-golfing-range-to-reopen-after-months-of-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380313\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular golfing range to reopen after months of construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Ala Wai Golf Course Driving Range is set to reopen Saturday after about ten months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to reopen the Ala Wai driving range and are looking forward to welcoming back all the golfers,\u201d said Ed Kageyama, owner and founder of Hawaii Golf Advisors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Planned renovations caused the driving range to close temporarily on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials initially planned to reopen the driving range in the spring, but it was delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/mayor\/ala-wai-driving-range-to-temporarily-close-beginning-january-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/mayor\/ala-wai-driving-range-to-temporarily-close-beginning-january-31\/\">the closure was necessary to enhance safety and accessibility.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Ala Wai Golf Course remained open and was not impacted by the construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before the closure, city officials said crews would work on vehicular and pedestrian access bridges and revitalize the driving range grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the city\u2019s Golf Division also assessed the facility and reviewed plans during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New changes include new turf on the driving range, repairs to the irrigation system, new hitting mats, stall dividers, and range balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driving range will be open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., with the following pricing:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>Small bucket (35 balls) $10<\/li>\n<li>Large bucket (70 balls) $15<\/li>\n<li>Rental clubs for $45<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Ala Wai Golf Course Driving Range is set to reopen Saturday after about ten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[19851,155999,182308,4415,9886,1430,157404,26621,90188,106181,16358,15959,71807,8152,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-380313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-accessibility","9":"tag-advisor","10":"tag-ala-wai","11":"tag-closure","12":"tag-construction","13":"tag-golf","14":"tag-golfing","15":"tag-hawaii","16":"tag-months","17":"tag-popular","18":"tag-range","19":"tag-renovation","20":"tag-reopen","21":"tag-safety","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115552773899025289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}