At the end of a day that started with stressful semifinals, the Nike Golf/Aloha Section PGA Four-Ball Match Play Championship ended Wednesday with an anticlimactic concession.

Moments earlier at Oahu Country Club, Kevin Hayashi’s 30-foot birdie putt on No. 15 gave Hayashi and Kevin Carll a 3-up advantage over TJ Kua and Todd Rego. On the par-3 16th, everybody missed the green but Hayashi, who left his tee shot 15 feet below the hole.

Rego chipped to a foot for par and Kua and Carll blasted out of the bunker from funky stances. Kua and Rego, needing to win the hole to extend the match, looked at each other and stuck their hands out, convinced a Hayashi three-putt was impossible.

"It was Kevin Hayashi," TJ Kua said of the Hawaii Golf Hall of Famer.

"And he had just sank a bomb before that," Rego added.

Hayashi and Carll won, 4 and 2, and made $1,500 each.

It was Hayashi’s second Four-Ball title, but first since four losses in the final with Lance Taketa between 2007-2011.

Kua, the 2009 Manoa Cup champ and winner of last year’s Mid-Pacific Open, had won the last two Nike titles with Shawn McCauley. The first came in his professional debut at 22.

Rego was still teaching autistic children for a living then. He turned pro this year at 32, and hopes to follow in the distinguished footsteps of Carll, a two-time Aloha Section Stroke Play champion who is head pro at Waialae Country Club.

Carll and Hayashi overcame Ed Kageyama and David Havens, 1-up, in a Wednesday morning semifinal. Carll birdied the 16th to tie the match. Hayashi eagled the next hole — from 30 feet again — for the difference.

Kua and Rego, who both work at Pearl Country Club, shot 59 in the qualifier and took out Kyle Hayashi and Jake Grodzinsky, 2 and 1, in the other semi.

They were 2-down to Team Kevin until Kua sank a 12-foot birdie putt at the 11th. Carll’s two-putt birdie — after two misses from Kua and Rego — at the 13th brought it back to 2-up.

Then Hayashi — after hitting his second shot into the 16th fairway — chipped to the 15th green and drained his 30-footer to dormie the match.

It is what the 52-year-old does, and has done so often in a career that includes nearly 50 Hawaii titles and eight Aloha Section Player of the Year honors.

He is also not shy about giving advice at this stage of his golf life.

"I told TJ he has to play (on a tour)," Hayashi said with finality. "He needs to play. If he stays in Hawaii his game is going to go stale and he’s going to lose confidence and come down to a lower level. If you keep on playing better courses, better players, your level will get better and better. He’s got to go when he is young."

Kua’s reaction was positive. He is eyeing an opportunity in Japan next year, which gives him 11 months to work on his game.