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Article: PGA Tour eyes Royal Kunia site
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 19, 2000
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The PGA Tour is looking seriously at the never-opened Royal Kunia Golf Course as a tournament site, a local representative of the organization said.
If the PGA Tour is able to work out a seemingly complex deal, it could move the Sony Open there and hold other tournaments there as well.
Royal Kunia is the 163-acre private course in Central Oahu that City Council Chairman Jon Yoshimura and six of his colleagues want condemned for public use. It was completed in 1994 but never opened, primarily because its owners failed to pay $13 million of a community impact fee owed to the city.
Exactly how a PGA Tour presence and city involvement could dovetail is unclear, but both sides say they believe ...