Outdoor facility set to open August 3 will be True Spec’s first ever in Hawaii and will offer golfers an elite fitting experience at one of the state’s “Top 10 Courses”
KAPOLEI, Oahu, Hawaii – True Spec Golf, the global leader in custom club fitting and club building, today announced its newest outdoor facility, True Spec Oahu, at Kapolei Golf Club. The new facility will have its grand opening on August 3 and will be the company’s first ever location in Hawaii. It is the latest in a growing number of partnerships that brings True Spec’s bespoke fittings and best-in-class customer service to prominent courses around the country.
True Spec Oahu offers golfers an unrivaled fitting experience at a facility that has won the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s People’s Choice Award as “Best Course on Oahu” along with being called “Hawaii’s Best” on three separate occasions. Golf Advisor also named Kapolei Golf Club as one of “Hawaii’s Top 10 Courses” and received 4 1/2 stars out of five on “Golf Digest’s Places to Play”.
The outdoor facility is home to one of True Spec’s state-of-the-art mobile fitting units, utilizing Foresight GC Quad technology, and features True Spec’s brand-agnostic fitting matrix of over 50,000 clubhead and shaft combinations, which helps its master fitters find the best equipment to improve your golf game. True Spec Oahu customers will be eligible to take advantage of a grand opening promo of 50% off fittings at the facility by using promo code OAHU50 through August 31st.
“Few places have as fitting a nickname as Hawaii being called ‘Paradise’ and we couldn’t be happier to be opening our first location there,” said Ryan Richardson, president of True Spec Golf. “Kapolei Golf Club is a magnificent facility and we’re thrilled to be partnering with them to help golfers of all skill levels in the area receive a tour-level custom fitting experience.”
The state-of-the-art facility at True Spec Oahu is one of several locations to bring the award-winning custom fitting process to the country’s finest Troon-managed courses. Other examples of the partnership include Pronghorn Resort in Bend, Oregon and the seasonal facilities at The Boulders Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona and at The Ridge at Castle Pines North, Colorado.
Open since 1995, Kapolei Golf Club is an 18-hole daily-fee club in Kapolei, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. Designed by celebrated architect Ted Robinson, known as the “King of Waterscapes,” Kapolei features five lakes to provide tactical challenges. The course incorporates elevated greens, wide fairways and generous greenside chipping areas in order to deliver maximum playability for golfers of all levels. It also encompasses a 30-stall, fully-lit practice range and putting green. Kapolei Golf Club’s sleek 12,000 square-foot clubhouse includes amenities such as a glass-walled golf shop, a full-service restaurant, private locker rooms and multiple meeting and event rooms.
“We’re immensely proud of our facility, the accolades we’ve received and the LPGA and PGA Tour Champions’ tournaments we’ve hosted,” said Akira Kihara, COO, Kapolei Golf Club. “And now we can add our partnership with True Spec as our latest noteworthy association.”
Consistently ranked by GOLF Magazine and Golf Digest as one of America’s top club fitters, True Spec is the nation’s undisputed leader in luxury club fitting. True Spec Oahu will be the company’s 28th location.
ABOUT KAPOLEI GOLF CLUB
Located 35 minutes northwest of Honolulu, Kapolei features a scenic Ted Robinson-designed golf course set on 190-acres of a former sugar can plantation. Colorful floral gardens, waterfalls and five lakes deliver a striking contrast to the course’s lush fairways and greens. In 2020, Kapolei was named one of the top “Courses You Can Play in Hawaii” by Golfweek magazine. For more information on Kapolei Golf Club visit kapoleigolf.com or call 808-674-2227.
ABOUT TRUE SPEC GOLF
True Spec Golf is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The premium brand-agnostic club fitting company was founded in 2014 and now has 28 studios around the world. True Spec Golf’s fitting matrix stocks more than 50,000 possible combinations of club heads and shafts from all leading equipment manufacturers. Their expertise has been validated by some of the most well-known PGA, LPGA and Champions Tour players around the world. True Spec Golf strives to offer the best possible experience, providing every player with clubs that maximize their potential and performance.
In 2018, the company was acquired by golf entrepreneur and philanthropist Howard Milstein, and is now part of Milstein’s 8AM Golf family. In addition to True Spec, other 8AM Golf companies include the Nicklaus Companies; GOLF Magazine and the GOLF.com website; legendary handmade club maker Miura Golf; Golf Logix, the most-downloaded GPS app in golf; Club Conex, a global leader in the design and manufacture of adjustable golf club adapter systems; Fairway Jockey, which provides golfers with the ability to buy custom clubs online; and Chirp, a free-to-play gaming app that lets golfers wager on the outcome of pro golf tournaments, rounds, and shots.
For more information, visit www.truespecgolf.com.
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