Kevin Shimomura seized the lead with ridiculously good golf in the morning and ridiculously good timing in the afternoon at the Nike Golf Four-Ball Match Play Championship. Ryan Michimoto made sure the team’s first Aloha Section PGA title didn’t get away.

The Lahainaluna graduates defeated Kevin Hayashi and Lance Taketa 2 and 1 in the final at Oahu Country Club on Wednesday.

Shimomura’s birdies at Nos. 5, 12 and 14 gave the team a 2-up lead. Michimoto made it stick with a 10-foot par putt to match Taketa at the 16th and a 15-foot birdie to match Hayashi at the 17th.

"Playing against Kevin and Lance you gotta get lucky," said Michimoto, a pro at Kapalua. "They are really good."

But his big putts for halves and Shimomura’s dead-center birdies inside 10 feet earlier were anything but lucky. The two 27-year-olds were relentless and all but error-free.

That only made their opponents feel older. The Hilo Municipal pros, who won just one hole in the tight final, are both eligible for the senior tour.

"When they said both of them were 27," Taketa said, "I thought, ‘Times 2, that’s me.’ "

Earlier in the day Shimomura, a Ko Olina pro, played OCC’s drastic hills and valleys in 8-under par as he and Michimoto beat 68-year-old Champions Tour player Dave Eichelberger and defending champion Shane Abe. That semifinal also ended 2 and 1.

Eichelberger is an OCC member and Abe is OCC’s assistant pro. In the other semifinal, Hayashi and Taketa took out OCC head pro Andrew Feldmann and Larry Stubblefield, another member, 1 up.

Taketa’s birdie at the 17th was the difference after Feldmann and Stubblefield, who won this title from 2002 to ’08, made up a three-hole deficit.

A new streak is in the works. Taketa and Hayashi, a member of the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame, have reached the past three finals. They lost on the 17th hole all three years. Matt Pakkala and Kevin Carll beat them in 2009 and Abe and John Hearn won it last year.

This year, Michimoto and Shimomura just had too much putting power.

"We were both struggling with our strokes," Taketa said. "When you just don’t feel it, it’s not good. The confidence is really low."

Hayashi and Taketa’s biggest regret was the snaking four-foot birdie putt that got away from Taketa at the 16th.

"My putting is bad and I kind of pushed it out," said Taketa, whose birdie on the previous hole gave his team a halve after Hayashi went out of bounds.

"That was the key. If we were 1 down with two to go we had a chance. Two-down is a little far because those guys were playing good."

Shimomura and Michimoto were seeded 15th. They upset second-seeded Ayaka Kaneko and John Lynch in the first round. Kaneko was 5 under at the turn in that match and her team was only 1 up.

The winners shared $3,000. Hayashi, who won this tournament with Hilo Municipal head pro Rodney Acia in 2001, shared $2,000 with Taketa.