GolfBC Expands into Prestigious Golf Properties in Hawaii, Acquiring Wailea Golf Club and Kauai Lagoons Golf Club
1st October, 2003
Vancouver, BC – GolfBC today announced
the purchase of three golf courses at the world renowned Wailea
Resort on Maui, and two golf courses at the Kauai Lagoons Resort on
Kauai. Home to the LPGA Skins Game, and Senior PGA Skins
Game, Wailea’s three courses – Wailea Gold,
Wailea Emerald and Wailea Blue, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.
and Arthur Jack Snider – offer superb
weather and spectacular views of Maui’s southern
coastline at the foot of Haleakala. Kauai Lagoons,
Wailea’s sister golf resort on majestic Kauai, is home
to two award-winning Jack Nicklaus designed golf courses, the
dramatic oceanside Kiele course, and the Mokihana course.
Wailea Resort has long been recognized as one of
Hawaii’s premier destination resorts and as one of the
finest residential resort communities in the world. The
resort encompasses over 1,500 acres along 1.5 miles of
Maui’s southern coastline. It includes three
golf courses, six hotels with 2,500 rooms, 450 single-family home
sites, 1,300 condominium apartments and the 156,000 square-foot
Shops at Wailea retail center.
GolfBC, a Vancouver-based company headed by Caleb
Chan, is defining a higher standard of quality and consistency
among premier golf destinations. GolfBC is a golf and
resort management and investment company based in British Columbia,
Canada. Since 1989 GolfBC has been creating premium championship
golf destinations and master planned golf communities in British
Columbia. GolfBC is the owner of eight championship golf
courses in British Columbia, including Nicklaus North (Whistler),
Furry Creek (Lions Bay), Gallagher’s Canyon (Kelowna),
Olympic View (Victoria), The Quail and The Bear (The Okanagan Golf
Club in Kelowna), Mayfair Lakes (Richmond), and Arbutus Ridge
(Cobble Hill). Additional information about GolfBC can
be found at its web site: www.golfbc.com.