A bunch of golfers had a shot at winning the 49th annual Oahu Country Club Men’s Invitational on Saturday, but ultimately no one could cool Matt Ma’s sizzling summer.

The former Oregon golfer won his third tournament in four starts. Ma birdied the second playoff hole to end Cory Oride’s tenacious charge.

Both finished at even-par 213. Oride closed with a 3-under-par 68 and Ma 69, with both bogeying the final hole.

It was Oride’s only bogey on the second (front) nine. While others charged early and backed off, the University of Hawaii senior from Kauai had three birdies to catch Ma, who also won at OCC last year.

Ma has won almost everything this year. It started in June when the 28-year-old captured his first Manoa Cup — the state match-play championship played at OCC.

“Manoa Cup did wonders for me,” Ma said. “It was one I could never get and I finally got one. From then on I’ve felt pretty comfortable over the ball.

“I’m just grateful for this run I’m on. Honestly I don’t think I’ve played this consistent since my redshirt sophomore year in college (2005), when I made All-Pac-10. I haven’t focused this well in a while. My mind is in a good place.”

He was second at Barbers Point and won the Army Invitational earlier this month. Two weeks ago he started a new position as a sales rep for, among others, the Nike company responsible for his fluorescent yellow shirt Saturday.

Now he has defended at OCC. He made the turn in 2 under, erasing the four-shot deficit he had on second-round leader Brian Lee — Oride’s UH teammate.

A group ahead, two-time OCC champion Eric Sonnenberg and Punahou graduate Kai Hayashida — both OCC members — were making a run. They were a combined 10 under for the day after 12 holes.

They could not keep up the pace and Oride ran by, while Ma passed them with a 15-foot eagle putt at the second.

Hayashida (69—215) finished third and Sonnenberg (70) and Bradley Shigezawa (71) shared fourth place at 216.

Meanwhile, Oride was avoiding bogey and clawing toward the top with birdies at Nos. 3, 5 and 7.

In the second playoff in three years, Oride and Ma both bogeyed the first extra hole after hitting their drives into the trees.

On the next hole (446-yard, par-5 No. 2), Oride, a head smaller than Ma, was more than 50 yards behind him in the fairway. Oride launched his second shot through the green into the back fringe, while Ma’s approach bounced over the hole and stopped 6 feet closer.

Oride’s 30-foot eagle try stopped 4 feet short. Ma left his first putt 3 feet short.

Oride missed — “it was a tough putt, downhill, sliding left to right … it just didn’t go in” — and Ma did not, hitting his putt just hard enough that it circled the lip and dropped in.

“Yesterday I was horrible at that distance,” Ma said. “Today I kind of got my feel back. I trusted my line and hit it a little too soft, but played enough break to get it to die in there.”

It gave Oride his third straight runner-up finish and had the Rainbows’ second team all-conference player shaking his head. Ma went up and hugged him like a little brother.

“I told him he’s a good player and he’s going to get one,” Ma said. “He’s been so close so many times. … I feel for him. He played well. He had some bad numbers out there when I played with him Friday and he kept in the round. That’s a testament to him.”

Mervin Matsumoto (150) won the 36-hole senior division on Friday by four shots.

Carl Ho was second after acing the 177-yard 11th.