Tournaments are nothing new to Kevin Hayashi, the club pro at Hilo Municipal Golf Course, who is now in his 29th year as a professional member of the PGA.
Hawaii golfers have a tougher road to follow than their mainland counterparts because of the generally windier conditions on island courses and the expense and timing to make an impact in major tournaments is necessarily greater for Big Island players like Hayashi.
Even so, he’s won more than 50 tournaments, and his time on the mainland suggests he’d do quite well there, given time and opportunity, but make no mistake about Hayashi, he’s a Hilo boy who was in the first graduating class at Waiakea High School, and he isn’t looking to move.