Golf

Moanalua’s Aj Teraoka had quite the misfortune Thursday, but he didn’t let it get him down. The senior went low — way low — with a 5-under 67 on Friday at the Turtle Bay Fazio Course to become the individual winner at the David S. Ishii/HHSAA Boys State Golf Championships. Teraoka’s 74 on Thursday included back-to-back double bogeys and he found himself four strokes behind first-round leaders Noah Koshi of Hawaii Baptist and Kolbe Irei of Roosevelt. And one of […]

Punahou senior Claire Choi is now a two-time girls state golf champion. And she is glad Wednesday was not anything like April 24. On that day, she was sick, slept late and wound up losing the ILH title she had won as a junior to teammate Karissa Kilby. On Wednesday, she stayed true and steady, carding a 2-under 70 to go along with her first-round 73 for a winning total of 1-under 143 in the David S. Ishii Foundation Girls […]

Kaiser senior Malia Nam shot a 6-under 66 as a part of a two-round total of 8-under 136 to win her third OIA girls golf championship Tuesday at the Turtle Bay Fazio Course. Nam also won the titles when she was a freshman and in a nine-hole playoff against Kalani’s Miki Manta as a junior. As a sophomore, she lost to Manta. Nam will go for her first state title next week at the Fazio Course. “I’m glad I played […]

Punahou freshman Karissa Kilby entered the day with a three-shot lead and ended it with a five-shot victory in the ILH girls individual golf championship Tuesday at the Turtle Bay Fazio Course. Kilby carded a 5-over 77 to finish the two-round tournament at 6-over 150. Hawaii Baptist’s Kelsey Ota was the runner-up at 155 after a second-round 76. “Yeah, I was really lucky today, had a lot of good bounces,” Kilby said. “I didn’t feel like I was playing too […]

Punahou’s Remington Hirano shot a 2-under 70 to win the Interscholastic League of Honolulu golf championship Wednesday at the Turtle Bay Fazio Course. Hirano finished the two-round tournament at 2-under 142, four shots clear of Buffanblu teammate Kane Rogers, who closed with a 71. A senior, Hirano had his coach of 11 years, the late Lance Suzuki, on his mind throughout Wednesday’s round. “My coach, Lance Suzuki, passed away last summer, and it was hard to stay focused knowing that. […]