It has already been a weird and wonderful week, even by golf’s goofy standards. Ultimately, and oddly fittingly for a trio of Menehune, all roads lead to a bunch of beavers.

That would be Oregon State Beavers, whose golf team could be Moanalua Makai by 2016, when half the players might be Menehune graduates.

Brent Grant, a 2014 Moanalua graduate who saved his greatest golf for the last couple of years, has an offer to play at OSU in the fall if he can fulfill his academic obligations.

Menehune juniors Kyosuke Hara and Shawn Lu, two of the biggest names in amateur golf since they were small, have made verbal commitments to OSU. Hara, won over by the coach and exceptional facilities, committed a few months ago while Lu made his decision April 15.

"It was pretty recent," said Lu, who is at Waikoloa Kings’ this week for the David S. Ishii Foundation Boys State Golf Championship, "and after all my visits to other schools and constantly talking to many coaches. I found one that finally clicked with me and my parents and I knew that I would be in very good hands."

The OSU/Moanalua connection goes even deeper this week.

A dream round and rules-of-golf asterisk allowed Grant to qualify for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on his own in November. Four Ball, a team format where only the best score of two partners counts, replaced U.S. Public Links this year in the USGA schedule.

Grant had to tee off solo when partner Bill Walbert, a physician’s assistant for heart and lung cancer surgeries, was called to Tripler Army Medical Center. Four-Ball became One-Ball and Grant shot a bogey-free 63, his best round by five shots.

A month ago, Grant and Walbert had to withdraw. Hara and his Four-Ball partner, Punahou junior Kyle Suppa, were next in line. They ended up being the youngest team at legendary Olympic Club in San Francisco and tied for third in Sunday’s qualifying.

They may not have won the inaugural event — falling in the second round Tuesday to two late bogeys — but Hara had the first hole-in-one in USGA Four-Ball history. In Monday’s victory, he aced the 165-yard 15th.

"I couldn’t see the hole," recalled Hara. "I hit an 8-iron and the ball hit the slope and kicked toward the hole. Me and Kyle knew it was a good distance and figured it should be good, but we only saw Kyle’s ball when we got to the green. A woman from the USGA told me it went in. It was great."

It felt even better because "Suppa Man," who made the cut in this year’s Sony Open in Hawaii, had been doing most of the heavy lifting early on.

"Kyle was carrying me the first 10 or 11 holes," Hara said. "I was struggling to get my game going. We were 1 up going into 15, then I got the hole-in-one. It really helped us because there were only four more holes left. We birdied 16 and won 3 and 2."

Suppa and Hara thought they had a way to get home in time for today’s first round of the state high school championship even if they reached Wednesday afternoon’s final. Asked how much sleep they would get, Hara’s response was a simple "just enough."

Tuesday’s loss gave them time to snooze. Suppa, who is headed to USC, lost to John Oda in a playoff last year and took eighth at states as a freshman. He already has two team championships and Punahou has won four of the last five.

Hara’s worst state finish is 12th. Moanalua won the 2012 title, the year before he got there. Today and tomorrow — and all next season — he and Lu can warm up for Oregon State, where they could meet up again with Grant.

"Since we already bonded before, playing on the same high school golf team, our team chemistry in college will be very solid already," says Lu, this year’s State Amateur Stroke Play champ. "We are going to continue to boost each other up because we are all very competitive people.

"The (OSU) coach always talked about us three playing together and our opinions on it and we all liked the idea of it. He wanted all of us because he knew that we are solid players and we could do big things for the Beavers."

But first, there is the rest of this wacky week, and probably many more. Lu and Hara have lots of dreams to realize, on and off the course.

"I feel pretty good," Hara says, "but I have a lot more to accomplish. I have to practice harder and study harder."