[1] The Waialae golf course hosts the Sony Open in Hawaii on the PGA Tour in January, the first full-field event of the calendar year.

Waialae was featured in the video games True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club, Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 (as well as a handful of earlier games in the franchise).

[2] For the 2010 U.S. census, the bureau created a new census-designated place, East Honolulu.

[12][13] The wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands are a winter habitat for the American coot which is also known as "mud hen".

[14] The Hawaiian mud hen (or 'alae), which is referred to in Wai'alae, is the endemic Gallinula sandvicensis and is a close relative of the coot.