This is Waialae CC, in Honolulu, HI, originally by Seth Raynor
in 1927. It originally was built for guests of the Royal
Hawaiian Hotel.
Waialae is the annual host of the Sony Open, formerly the
Hawaiian Open, the first full stop on the PGA Tour, after
the "Tournament of Champions", The Mercedes on Kapalua's
Plantation course. What constitutes the TV back nine, is
what is missing from the aerial. The nines are switched for
the tournament, having the ocean holes on the TV back nine.
None of the more worthy courses are available in HI, such as
Kapalua, Princeville, Mauna Kea, and two other Oahu courses,
the famously difficult Koolau, and Raynor's other Hawaii
design, Mid-Pacific.
clues include:
first AOTD for HI, and might be the last.
could see the Biarritz and Short = Raynor.
Hawaii's alphabet has only 12 letters, the 5 vowels and
H,K,L,M,N,P, and W.
You can't really see any palm trees in the aerial, though
they're quite prevalent on TV. Only state laden with palm
trees not used so far, except maybe southern Mississippi.
The other aerial was, of course, the USS Arizona Memorial,
over the sunken USS Arizona (part still sticks out of the
water), from the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor ("The day
that will live in infamy").
There's an interesting piece and history on Waialae on the
PGA Tour's web site, even mentioning the Road Hole (shown,
hole above range) and Redan (not shown). No mention of
Biarritz by name, but has description on long green with
swale. Also, Short is not mentioned by name, but did
mention about bunkers formerly surrounding green, no
longer behind.
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r006/course.html