HONOLULU – The University of Hawai’i women’s golf team will host the 26th annual Rainbow Wahine Invitational, Oct. 23-25 at the Kapolei Golf Club in west O’ahu.
 
The tournament features a 16-team field highlighted by seven teams ranked in Golfweek’s Top 100 national rankings including 69th-ranked Baylor and 72nd-ranked New Mexico State. Other ranked teams include No. 79 UC Davis, No. 80 Kennesaw State, No. 83 Iowa, No. 85 Nevada, and No. 94 Sacramento State.
 
Making up the rest of the field are British Columbia (Canada), Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Gonzaga, Hawai’i, Murray State, Osaka Gakuin (Japan), UNC Asheville, and Utah Valley.
 
Participants will play 18 holes each day at the par-72, 6,208-yard course with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. each day.
 
Hawai’i’s five-member contingent includes Emiko Sverduk, Focus Jonglikit, Kellie Yamane, Wendy Song, and Jordyn Parr.
 
The tournament wraps up UH’s fall season which also included the Colonel Wollenberg Ram Classic in September and Pat Lesser Harbottle Invitational earlier this month. Sverduk leads the team with a 73.83 scoring average.
 
UH’s fall tournament has been played at Kapolei 15 times under various names including the Kent Youel Invitational. The tournament returned to Kapolei in 2018, which followed a six-year run at Leilehua Golf Course. Kapolei previously hosted the event from 1999-2008 and again in 2011. In between, UH hosted the Turtle Bay Resort College Invitational on the North Shore of O’ahu in 2009 and ’10.
 
The program first began hosting a fall tournament in 1997 with the Princeville Rainbow Wahine Fall Classic in Kaua’i. UCLA has won the most Rainbow Wahine Invitationals with five followed by Sacramento State, which has three titles most recently in 2019.

Kapolei Golf Club has hosted PGA and LPGA tournaments including the Pacific Links Championship of the PGA Champions Tour from 2012-14 and the LPGA’s Hawaiian Ladies Open from 1996-2001. It was also rated as one of Hawai’i’s Top 10 courses by GolfAdvisor.com.

 

Tournament Facts

Date: Oct. 23-25, 2023

Format: Three-days; 54 holes (18-18-18); 5-count-4

Time: 9:00 a.m. HT shotgun start each day

Course: Kapolei Golf Club; Kapolei, O’ahu

Yardage (Par): 6,208 (72)

Live Scoring: www.golfstat.com

Field: Hawai’i, Baylor, British Columbia (Canada), Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Gonzaga, Iowa, Kennesaw State, Murray State, Nevada, New Mexico State, Osaka Gakuin (Japan), Sacramento State, UC Davis, UNC Asheville, Utah Valley

 

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