b'OPPOSITE PAGE: Waikoloa Bobby took the knowledge and experience he hadKings Course, Hole 5. gained through working with his father, and ventured ABOVE: No. 7 on the out on his own. One of his first solo designs was theKings Course.Makai Course at Princeville in 1972, followed closely by the Waikoloa Village Golf Club, also in 1972. Famed Hawaiian golfer Jackie Pung was the first golf profes- I was taught how to route a golf course not by moving sional at Waikoloa Village and green fees were $7.50earth, but by following the contours of the land from the when it opened.point of view of the sequence of shots required. Thats what The second resort course on the island after Maunawe did there. The Village course was similar in geology to Kea, the Village course was quite the sensation when itMauna Kea with an old lava flow that had been weathered opened, drawing rave reviews as one of the better coursesfor a very long time. So it crushed fairly easily, as it did at in the state. Comedian and entertainer Jerry Lewis wasMauna Kea. But there was also some phoehoe lava, which so smitten with both Pung and the course itself when heis a basaltic rock that has to be covered by sand.visited in 1975 that he bought a family membership.Honolulu Advertiser sports editor Hal Wood inter-viewed Jones in 1970 as the course was being designed. L E A R N I N G T H E L A N D What young Jones is doing is to build a golf course I think I was selected in part to build Waikoloa Villagefor Boise Cascade on the Big Island on land that looks because I had spent two years off and on at Maunajust about what the moon offers in the way of material, Kea as an apprentice to my father, Bobby says. I hadWood wrote. It will be on lava rock that looks like it come to understand the lava flows, and I took geologywas just spewed from a moon crater.at Yale University, so I was technically able to figure outHethenquotesBobby,whohadrecentlymet with some help from the locals what was happeningastronaut Neil Armstrong in California: I figure that geologically.Armstrong or one of the other astronauts, all golfers, 7 1'