45-285 Kaneohe Bay Drive Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744 Phone: 808-247-0451

If you had happened by Bay View Golf Park at the beginning of the year to find only closed doors, don't worry. It was just a 10-day pause so a new management team could come in and set its own plans into action.

And according to property manager Ken Yuen, this new phase will see considerable changes to the affordable Kaneohe golf course.

"It's going to be a better course,"said Yuen. "We're going to do new greens, we're going to have nicer carts, and we have a former Japanese golf pro as the manager now."

Haruki Hirai, who also helped Olomana with its groundskeeping and operations, takes over nearly all of the course operations for very good reasons,Yuen explained."Mr. Hirai has a lot of good ideas to make it a better course. We were OK with the way it ran before, but we feel that he will bring more expertise about how to run it and make it a better course."

In addition to course improvements,Yuen said the owners are spending "a lot of money" on upgrades to nearly every facility on the property. "The whole property is going to come alive,"he said.

Bay View Golf Park has always been an affordable, family-orientated spot where people can work on their game without a large financial commitment - something that is especially important today, Yuen said, and this philosophy will continue. They'll even be a shave ice stand and a possible farmer's market on weekends.

"The synergy is there right now. It's been a work in progress as far as operations, but it looks really good, even in this trying economy."

For more details, go to bayviewgolfparkhi.com.