Posted on: Thursday, September 27, 2001
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Waikoloa Open champ to defend title
Advertiser Staff
Kevin Hayashi will defend his Waikoloa Open championship when the 28th annual tournament is played tomorrow to Sunday at the Waikoloa Village Course.
Hayashi, heading to Japan to try to qualify for its tour, has clinched 2001 Aloha Section PGA Player of the Year honors. He has won Waikoloa three times. Last year, he played three windy rounds in 1-under-par 215, four better than Henry Sieradzki and Jerry Mullen.
Dan Nishimoto won the senior flight last year, with 224. He will also defend.
Eight-time Waikoloa champion Lance Suzuki, playing next week in the Senior PGA Tour's Turtle Bay Championship, will warm up on the Big Island this weekend. Casey Nakama, who defeated Ron Castillo Jr. in a 1999 playoff, is also in the professional flight.
Randy Shibuya, the reigning state stroke play amateur champion, is in the championship flight.
The Pro-Am tees off at 1 p.m. today. Tournament rounds begin at 6:30 each morning. The purse is $25,000, with $5,000 to the winning professional, and $2,500 to the senior champion.
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