Architect Rees Jones designed the layout at Kohanaiki Golf Club while renovating Mauna Kea in 2008, but adverse economic conditions delayed the opening for five years, before the course was finally unveiled.
Architect Rees Jones designed the layout at Kohanaiki Golf Club while renovating Mauna Kea in 2008, but adverse economic conditions delayed the opening for five years, before the course was finally unveiled.
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Rees Jones considers himself a multi-themed architect, which means he is constantly seeking variety, trying to give the player a new experience on every hole, not just on every course.
Rees was educated at Montclair High School in New Jersey, two years behind his brother Robert Trent Jones Junior. He graduated from Yale University with a Batchelor of Arts degree in 1963 then enrolled for a landscape architecture course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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