With two deluxe hotels—the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows and the Fairmont Orchid Hawaii—two championship golf courses, an exquisite stretch of coastline and white sand beach, world-class spa facilities and award-winning dining, Mauna Lani Resort offers everything for a luxury getaway. But perhaps more than any other resort in Hawaii, Mauna Lani is also renowned for its devotion to preserving and enhancing the cultural and natural history of Hawaii.
Hawaii’s rich culture lovingly preserved

Francis H. I‘i Brown

The late Francis Hyde I‘i Brown was affectionately known in Hawaii as Mr. Golf. A descendent of Hawaiian royalty, in 1932 he purchased Kalahuipuaa—what is now Mauna Lani—for $3,200. It would be his retreat, where the former territorial representative “replenished his Hawaiian soul in the same ways his ancestors did” according to nephew, Kenneth F. Brown. A quiet benefactor, Brown had the gift of treating everyone he encountered—from John Wayne to an usher—with equal kindness. His extraordinary golfing skills were legendary. He hit prodigiously long drives with hickory-shafted clubs and the less-compressed balls of his day. For years he held the course record (62) at the Old Course at St. Andrews; he had 14 holes-in-one, and once held the amateur title of Hawaii, Japan and California concurrently.

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