Three Boys and Girls Clubs, four YMCAs, Children’s Discovery Center, Aloha Harvest, Family Promise, Gregory House and Kokua Kalihi Valley are among the 150 local non-profit organizations awarded charitable grants by Friends of Hawaii Charities this year.

Friends recently distributed $1 million to the organizations from proceeds raised at the 2016 Sony Open in Hawaii. The PGA Tour event proceeds were again matched by The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.

It was the 12th consecutive year Sony reached its million-dollar goal.

Grant recipients are “community-based, non-profit organizations which operate programs for Hawaii’s children, women, elderly and impoverished.”

Sony is among the five longest-running tournament sponsors on the PGA Tour. Fabian Gomez won this year’s Sony Open on the second playoff hole. The tournament returns to Waialae Country Club Jan. 9-15, 2017.

Corpuz seventh at Thunderbird tourney

A final-round 69 Monday gave state high school champion Allisen Corpuz a seventh-place finish at the 17th annual Thunderbird International, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Corpuz’s 54-hole score of 221 was 10 shots behind champion Agustina Zeballos, who is from Argentina.

There were 78 players from 18 countries in the girls and boys divisions of the invitational event.

Senior women’s amateur event opens

Entries are available for the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship qualifier to be played Aug. 31 at Ko Olina Golf Club.

Amateur female golfers 50 and older (or who will be 50 on or before Sept. 17), with an up-to-date USGA handicap index not exceeding 18.4, are eligible. Entries close Aug. 3.

There are no green fees charged for the practice and qualifying rounds. A $35 cart fee, plus tax, will be charged for the practice round.

The national championship is Sept. 17-22 at Wellesley Country Club in Massachusetts. Travel stipends are available.

For more information, contact Marcia Lee (368-5600 or ml3210@aol.com). To register, visit usga.org/champs/apply.

Hara medalist at junior PGA qualifier

Recent Moanalua High School graduate Kyosuke Hara won a four-hole playoff with Hilo’s Shon Katahira Monday to capture medalist honors at the local qualifier for the 41st Junior PGA Championship.

Hara and Katahira both finished at 3-under-par 141 at Wailua Golf Course.

Kaiser High’s Malia Nam fired 69 in the final round to win medalist honors by six shots in the Girls Flight, with a two-day total of 139. Allysha Mae Mateo was second.

Winners of the boys and girls combined 13-18 age divisions earned the right to represent the Aloha Section PGA at the national championship, Aug. 9-12 in Rumford, R.I.

One girl and one boy from each of the 41 PGA Sections, champions are invited, along with winners of the eight PGA Junior Series events and select national junior tournaments, and special invitees.

Mateo and Katahira were also among the 31 Hawaii golfers on Kauai who qualified for the IMG Junior World Championship. Junior World finals are July 10-15, in San Diego. That tournament goes back to 1968 and has now grown to 1,200 participants, representing 56 countries and 42 states.

Other Junior PGA flight winners Monday:

>> 10-under—Raya Nakao (150) and Taiki Marsh (151); 11-12—Kailey Oki (154) and Joshua Chang (151); 13-15—Allysha Mae Mateo (145) and Davis Lee (149); 16-18—Malia Nam and Kyosuke Hara.

Women’s invitational at OCC set for August

Entries are out for this year’s Oahu Country Club Women’s Invitational. It will be Aug. 22-23 and again follow a modified Stableford scoring format. The field is limited to 80.

Golfers must have an established GHIN handicap index of 24.5 or less and be at least 15 years old. Point scoring is net in all flights, with Championship Flight also having a low-gross winner.

Entry fees are $195 and $145 (students).

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