{"id":711300,"date":"2026-06-03T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711300\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:18:10","slug":"maui-junior-golf-ajga-qualifier-produces-two-champions-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711300\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui Junior Golf AJGA Qualifier produces two champions : Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   June 2, 2026, 1:00 PM HST  <\/p>\n<p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1186-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527627\"\/>Maui Junior Golf AJGA Qualifier produces two champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maui Junior Golf hosted its AJGA Qualifier, a two-day tournament held May 23-24, that gave local junior golfers the opportunity to earn a coveted spot in the upcoming AJGA tournament on O\u02bbahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition featured 11 boys and eight girls, each competing for a single qualifying position in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first round was played on Saturday at Waiehu Golf Course, while the final round took place Sunday at Wailea Blue Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After two days of competitive play,\u00a0Lakota Lee\u00a0captured the boys\u2019 qualifying spot with a two-round total of\u00a01-over par, earning the opportunity to represent Maui at the AJGA event on O\u02bbahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the girls\u2019 division,\u00a0Naiya Hamasaki\u00a0secured the qualifying position with a two-round total of\u00a06-over par, finishing at the top of the leaderboard and advancing to the AJGA tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1896-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527628\"\/>Maui Junior Golf AJGA Qualifier produces two champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 2, 2026, 1:00 PM HST Maui Junior Golf AJGA Qualifier produces two champions. Maui Junior Golf hosted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[258108,258109,49,48,622,99308,258110,258111,258112,82,258113,258114],"class_list":["post-711300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ajga","tag-ajga-qualifier","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-junior-golf","tag-lakota-lee","tag-maui-junior-golf","tag-naiya-hamasaki","tag-sports","tag-waiehu-golf-course","tag-wailea-blue-golf-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711300","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=711300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}