{"id":624422,"date":"2026-04-24T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:26:13","slug":"uh-hilo-womens-golf-captures-2026-pacwest-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624422\/","title":{"rendered":"UH Hilo women\u2019s golf captures 2026 PacWest title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo women\u2019s golf<\/a> team won the 2026 Pacific West Conference Championship at Aliante Golf Club, marking the program\u2019s second conference title.<\/p>\n

The Vulcans held steady in second place through the first two rounds before delivering a strong final-round score of 295 (+7), finishing the tournament at +31 (895) to clinch the team victory.<\/p>\n

Elle Otani led the way for UH Hilo, tying for fourth overall at +4 with rounds of 74, 73, and 73. Otani closed with a par on the final hole, sealing the win as teammates rushed to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Kiersten Saludares placed eighth at +9, followed by Kailee McKee in ninth at +10 and Trinity Ledgerwood tied for 10th at +11. Kieran Florino bounced back from a difficult second round to post a one-over finish in the final round, contributing to the team\u2019s decisive push.<\/p>\n

The team will now compete in the NCAA West Regional tournament in Colorado, May 4\u20136.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: < 1 minute The University of Hawai\u02bbi at Hilo women\u2019s golf team won the 2026 Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[234170,495,49,48,234164,234177,234174,234165,622,234176,234160,234159,162386,234167,234169,234166,234173,234163,234162,234161,234175,82,234168,131894,131917,4872,234180,234179,234172,234171,234178],"class_list":{"0":"post-624422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-aliante-golf-club-tournament","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-college-golf-hawaii","13":"tag-collegiate-golf-news","14":"tag-dominican-university-golf","15":"tag-elle-otani-golf","16":"tag-golf","17":"tag-golf-tournament-results-2026","18":"tag-hawaii-hilo-vulcans-golf","19":"tag-hawaii-hilo-womens-golf","20":"tag-hilo","21":"tag-kailee-mckee-golf","22":"tag-kieran-florino-golf","23":"tag-kiersten-saludares-golf","24":"tag-menlo-kim-penzold","25":"tag-ncaa-division-ii-womens-golf","26":"tag-pacific-west-conference-golf","27":"tag-pacwest-championship-2026","28":"tag-point-loma-womens-golf","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-trinity-ledgerwood-golf","31":"tag-uh-hilo","32":"tag-uh-hilo-athletics","33":"tag-university-of-hawaii","34":"tag-university-of-hawaii-hilo","35":"tag-university-of-hawaii-hilo-athletics","36":"tag-westmont-hannah-camara","37":"tag-womens-college-golf-champions","38":"tag-womens-golf-rankings-ncaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}