Tomorrow, the 62nd annual Jennie K. Wilson Women’s Invitational tees off at Mid-Pacific Country Club. Sometimes it seems like the combined age of the entire Championship Flight doesn’t add up to 62.

Japan’s Eri Joma is not here to defend her title and four-time champ Kristina Merkle is caddying for her mother. Bev Kim, the 1981 Jennie K. winner, is the only former champion in the field and she is in A Flight.

That leaves Nicole Sakamoto, who graduated from James Madison two weeks ago, as the next-best thing. She is playing the opening jewel of the triple crown of Hawaii women’s golf for the first time since she went away to college. She was third in 2009 and second the year before.

Sakamoto also swept the State Stroke and Match Play titles — the other two jewels — the past two years. Stroke Play is based at Mid-Pac and last year she tied Stephanie Kono’s tournament record of 4-under-par 212.

The Jennie K. record is one better, set by Amanda Wilson in 2004. Three years before, Michelle Wie became the tournament’s youngest winner, at 11. A wave of junior contenders followed, and dramatically lower scores.

Joma, a high school junior from Japan, won with 8-over 224. It was the highest winning score since Kono won in 2003. She joined Wie on the LPGA tour this year.

In the interim, the average winning score has been 2 under. That is something for Sakamoto, now armed with a degree in sports management and a business minor, to shoot for.

The mix of college and junior players has become the norm at the Hawaii women’s majors, with some gifted older folks and maybe a few foreigners.

This year, 11-year-old St. Joseph fifth-grader Aneka Seumanutafa is making her adult debut at Jennie K.

"I decided to play Jennie K. because it is one of the biggest tournaments," Seumanutafa said.

"And," she adds with a wink, "I’m going to be the youngest player to win."

She was the 10-under state champion last year and stands 5 feet 7. She can rip the golf ball but considers putting the best part of her game.

Her goal is to shoot in the low 70s. Eventually she wants to win Jr. World and USGA championships, play in college and "hopefully" turn pro.

Sakamoto, a Kalani graduate who works with Lance Suzuki, should be her role model. She "hopes" to go pro in the next year. She won three college tournaments and was JMU’s MVP this year, earning all-conference honors for the third time. If she could do it again, "I would play with more confidence because I know I have the ability to compete with the best players."

She misses college already, giving James Madison credit not only for her diploma, but also improving every aspect of her golf.

"Everything from my mental game to my ball striking," Sakamoto says. "I’m able to accept mis-hits and not get frustrated over shots. Also, my missed golf shots are not as errant as before. I can get away with some of them."

Those are the kinds of things Seumanutafa hopes to learn this weekend, along with junior golf buddies like Malia Nam, 12, and Annika Espino, 13. Seumanutafa wants to discover the secrets to calming her nerves in crucial situations, and when Mid-Pac’s slick greens spit her shots into rough.

Those greens are what Sakamoto loves most about Mid-Pac. Only someone who has won there, twice, can say that.

"Even though they are difficult at times, they are fun to putt on," she says. "To win I just need to play my own game, have fun and love my putter."