While the Masters winds down on a golf course far, far away on Sunday, the LPGA Lotte Championship qualifier will take place at Ko Olina with lots of local flavor.

Michelle Wie is already back home and tweeting about the kindness of tradewinds. The Punahou graduate, who has bolted up to 24th in the world rankings with her scorching start this year, is already in the 144-player field that tees off in Wednesday’s opening round. Wie leads the tour in scoring average (69.75) and greens in regulation (81 percent).

Hawaii State Open champion Mari Chun and 2006 U.S. Amateur champion Kimberly Kim are hoping to join Wie after Sunday’s qualifier. So are Nicole Sakamoto, who has won seven Hawaii women’s majors; recent Army Women’s Invitational winner Brittany Fan, and state high school champions Shayna Miyajima, Anna Jang and Mariel Galdiano.

The qualifier starts at 8 a.m., with the top two advancing.

Jang, who graduated from Princeton last year, and Sakamoto, a James Madison graduate, are rookies on the LPGA’s Symetra Tour. Galdiano, the reigning state high school champion, and Fan, who signed a letter of intent with Colorado in the fall, received exemptions into the qualifier.

Wie was 12 when she qualified for her first LPGA tournament, the 2002 LPGA Takefuji Classic at windy Waikoloa Beach.

Annika Sorenstam won that week and again at Turtle Bay in 2008. Paula Creamer has won here twice in 2007 at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay and the following year at the Fields Open in Hawaii, also at Ko Olina.

In 2009 at Turtle Bay, Wie finished second to Angela Stanford. It is as close as she has come to winning a professional event at home. She will be coming off her first runner-up finish in a major, taking second to 19-year-old Lexi Thompson last Sunday at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. It was Wie’s third top 10 in six starts this year.

She will be joined this week by top-ranked Inbee Park, fourth-ranked Lydia Ko who turns 17 in two weeks, seventh-ranked So Yeon Ryu, eighth-ranked Shanshan Feng and 10th-ranked Anna Nordqvist.

Creamer, No. 9 in the Rolex World Rankings, will also play.

Solheim captains Juli Inkster and Pat Hurst are in the field, as are Stanford, Cristie Kerr, Yani Tseng, Se Ri Pak, 2012 Lotte champ Ai Miyazato and Lizette Salas, who shot 62 last time she teed it up at Ko Olina.

That was good enough to catch Suzann Pettersen in the final round last year, but Pettersen prevailed in a playoff. The world’s second-ranked golfer is expected to defend her title if her bad back is better. It has kept her out of the past two tournaments.

Pettersen was brilliant here last year, shooting a final-round 67 to keep up with Salas and winning with a total of 19 under. The Norwegian has been ranked in the world’s top 10 the past 357 weeks and is seventh on the career earnings list.