Men’s Golf To Host Two Tournaments In Span of Six Days – University of Hawai’i at Manoa Athletics

HONOLULU – The University of Hawai’i men’s golf team will host a pair of tournaments this week – Kapolei Invitational and Kā’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational – over a six-day period to close out the fall season.
 
The week begins with the second annual Kapolei Invitational, Oct. 29-31 at the Kapolei Golf Club on O’ahu and ends with the 10^th annual Kā’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational, Nov. 2-4, at the Royal Kā’anapali Course on Maui.
 
The Kapolei Invite brings 15 teams to west O’ahu highlighted by two Top 100 teams – 58^th-ranked San Diego and 63^rd-ranked Arkansas State. The rest of the field includes Air Force, Army West Point, British Columbia, Butler, Eastern Kentucky, Lamar, Miami (Ohio), St. John’s, Texas State, UC Riverside, Utah Valley, and Utah Tech.
 
The three-day, 54-hole tournament will be played at the 7,001-yard, par-72 course with a 9:00 a.m. shotgun start each day. Kapolei just hosted the 27^th Rainbow Wahine Invitational last week and has been home to PGA and LPGA tournaments in the past. It was also rated as one of Hawai’i’s Top 10 courses by GolfAdvisor.com.
 
Last season, UH broke the program’s 54-hole scoring record after posting 835 and smashed the school record in relation to par (29-under). The 54-hole record had just been set earlier in the week at the Kā’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational, where the team shot 836.
 
Two days after the completion of the Kapolei Invitational, the Rainbow Warriors island hop to the Valley Isle for the Kā’anapali Classic, which has attracted some of the nation’s top teams year in and year out. UH has hosted the tournament each year since 2014 with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic.
 
This year’s field includes 21-teams including two-time defending champion Oklahoma, who shared last year’s title with East Tennessee State. The Sooners have captured the title four times and come to Maui with a No. 2 national ranking.
 
Eight other teams are ranked in the Top 100 – No. 5 LSU, No. 27 Georgia, No. 34 Colorado, No. 42 TCU, No. 46 Kansas, No. 65 Indiana, No. 70 San Jose State, and No. 95 Boise State. Making up the rest of the field are CSUN, ETSU, Gonzaga, Liberty, Louisiana Tech, North Florida, Sacramento State, Southern Illinois, UConn, UC Irvine, and Wyoming.
 
The teams will play 54-holes over three days with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start each day. The 6,700-yard Royal Kā’anapali Course is played at a par 71. The track was built in 1962 and is one of only two courses in Hawai’i designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.
 
UH last competed in the Alister MacKenzie Invitational earlier this month in Fairfax, Calif., where they finished in a tie for 13^th place, posting a 13-under 839 total which is the third lowest 54-hole score in program history. In that tournament, the Rainbow Warriors broke the single-round record with an opening round 12-under 272.
 
Tournament #3
Date: Oct. 29-31, 2024
Format: Three-days; 54 holes (18 holes each day); 5-count-4
Time: 9:00 a.m. HT shotgun each day
Course: Kapolei Golf Club
Location: Kapolei, O’ahu
Yardage (Par): 7,001 (72)
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.clippd.com
Participating Teams (15): Hawai’i, Air Force, Arkansas State, Army West Point, British Columbia, Butler, Eastern Kentucky, Lamar, Miami (Ohio), St. John’s, San Diego, Texas State, UC Riverside, Utah Valley, Utah Tech
 
Tournament #4
Date: Nov. 2-4, 2024
Format: Three-days; 54 holes (18 holes each day); 5-count-4
Time: 8:30 a.m. HT shotgun each day
Course: Ka’anapali Golf Club; Royal Ka’anapali Course
Location: Lahaina, Maui
Yardage (Par): 6,700 (71)
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.clippd.com
Participating Teams (21): Hawaiʻi, Boise State, Colorado, CSUN, East Tennessee State, Georgia, Gonzaga, Indiana, Kansas, Liberty, Louisiana Tech, LSU, North Florida, Oklahoma, Sacramento State, San Jose State, Southern Illinois, TCU, UConn, UC Irvine, Wyoming
 
 

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