Golf

Kaiser’s Malia Nam and Kalani’s Miki Manta — the previous two OIA individual golf medalists — engaged in a classic duel on the golf course at Turtle Bay on Tuesday with Nam outlasting Manta in nine playoff holes to claim her second OIA title in three years. Nam two-putted from roughly 25 feet on the par-3 15th hole at the Fazio Course to snatch the victory after Manta’s tee shot went left of the green. Manta attempted a putt from off the […]

One stroke was all that separated Kasier’s Malia Nam and Kalani’s Miki Manta at last year’s OIA girls’ golf championships. Nam was gunning for OIA title No. 2 at the time, having won the previous year as a freshman. Instead, Manta pulled ahead for a 5-over 149 over two days to come out on top. And thus, another chapter in the rivalry between two of the top juniors in the state was closed. Although Nam considers Manta to be a […]

Kaiser golfer Malia Nam will represent Hawaii in qualifying for the LPGA’s first major tournament of the season. Nam, the 2015 OIA champion, will compete with 39 of the world’s best female junior golfers for a spot in the ANA Inspiration beginning March 27 at Mission Hills Country Club in California. “It is such an honor to be selected from Honolulu and playing amongst top junior golfers from all over the world,” Nam said in a release. “Qualifying for the […]

The number of rounds in the 60s in ILH competition doubled on Wednesday, when two boys took advantage of the conditions in the league’s fourth tournament. Punahou senior Andrew Chin shot his second sub-70 round in three starts with a 67 at Hawaii Prince on Wednesday, the lowest score in the ILH this year. Chin opened the season with a 69 at Mililani. Teammate Remington Hirano finished two strokes back on the Ewa plains for his lowest score of the […]

With Kaiser’s Malia Nam not in the field, Miki Manta of Kalani earned her first win of the OIA golf season on Monday at Hoakalei Golf Course. Manta, the reigning OIA champion, shot a 76 on the par-72 layout to beat the field by seven strokes. Teammate Michelle Kim was second with an 83 and nobody else broke 90 but the Falcons had three of the top four golfers with Melissa Yago taking fourth with a 92. It was the […]

There will be no wire-to-wire dominance in ILH golf this year. Iolani’s Kengo Aoshima fired a 68 at Olomana to take an ILH tournament on friday, beating Mid-Pacific senior Zack Kaneshiro by three shots. Kaneshiro had the edge on Aoshima in the first two tournaments of the year, winning at Mililani with a 73 and at Leilehua with a 68. Aoshima, who won the ILH title in 2014 was was the runner up in 2015, was one shot off Kaneshiro’s […]

After a decade of dominance, the Moanalua boys golf team might face a challenge this year. Na Menehune have won the OIA championship in each of the last 10 years and looked to be cruising to their 11th early in the season until the series unloaded at Ted Makalena Golf Course on Tuesday. Reigning OIA champion Jun Ho Won of Moanalua won the first two events of the season with a 72 at Hawaii Prince and a 68 at Mililani, […]

A Hawaii junior golfer himself a few — OK, maybe more than a few — years back, Parker McLachlin could offer some advice to the high school players working out some nerves in Tuesday’s Hawaii Tourism Authority Pro-Junior Challenge at Waialae Country Club. “He was just telling us to breathe,” Baldwin senior Justin Arcano said. “Take a big deep breath.” Arcano appeared comfortable in the three-hole exhibition that paired five local juniors with five pros entered in the Sony Open in […]