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HONOLULU – The University of Hawai’i men’s golf team will hop to the Valley Isle to host the 11th annual Kā’anapali Classic by OUTRIGGER, Oct. 27-29 at the Royal Kā’anapali Golf Course.
 
UH golfers Anson Cabello and Chris Salem will return to their home island. Cabello, a junior from Kahului, competed in two previous Classics carding 221 each time. Salem, a freshman from Lahaina, is a 2025 graduate of Maui Prep Academy.
 
Now in its 11th year, the tournament has annually attracted some of the nation’s best collegiate teams and this year is not different as more than half of the field is ranked in the Top 100. The Rainbow Warriors have hosted the tournament each year since 2014 with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic.
 
Three-time defending champion Oklahoma headlines the 19-team field. The 21st-ranked Sooners have won the tournament five times, including 2015 and 2019. Two other past team champions – No. 41 Kansas and No. 87 East Tennessee State – are also among the field.
 
Other Top 100 teams include No. 39 Colorado, No. 40 Georgia, No. 58 Florida Gulf Coast, No. 59 TCU, No. 70 San Jose State, No. 84 Indiana, and No. 91 Southern Illinois. Making up the rest of the field are Boise State, CSUN, Gonzaga, North Florida, Sacramento State, UConn, UC Irvine, Wyoming.
 
The three-day, 54-hole tournament begins each day with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start at the par-71, 6,700-yard Royal Kā’anapali Course. The track was built in 1962 and is one of only two courses in Hawai’i designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.
 
UH will send eight golfers to Maui, five team members and three individuals. The five team members include Cabello, Nathan Szpakowicz, Dane Watanabe, James Whitworth, and Selem while Alec Hilgers, Cameron Combado, and Quinn Murray will compete as individuals. 
 
Hawai’i has annually hosted a fall tournament since the late 1990s. Each year since, the Rainbow Warriors have hosted at least one tournament in the fall and in some seasons, have hosted two, including this season as the team will host the inaugural Pearl at Kalauoa Invitational, Nov. 5-6 on O’ahu to close out the fall season.
 
UH has only competed once in 2025-26 at the Gene Miranda Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., last month. Hawai’i tied for 10th with an 867 total with two Warriors finishing in the Top 25 –Cabello (214, t-18th) and Szpakowicz (215, t-24th).
 
Tournament #2

Date: Oct. 27-29, 2025
Format: Three-days; 54 holes (18 holes each day); 5-count-4
Time: 8:30 a.m. HT shotgun each day
Course: Kā’anapali Golf Club; Royal Kā’anapali Course
Location: Lahaina, Maui
Yardage (Par): 6,700 (71)
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.clippd.com
Participating Teams (19): Hawai’i, Boise State, Colorado, CSUN, East Tennessee State, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia, Gonzaga, Indiana, Kansas, North Florida, Oklahoma, Sacramento State, San Jose State, Southern Illinois, TCU, UConn, UC Irvine, Wyoming
 
 

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