TJ Kua is perfect in his short professional golf life.

Kua, a former University of Hawaii golfer and the 2009 Manoa Cup champ from Kauai, won his first tournament as a pro Wednesday. He and partner Shawn McCauley captured the Nike Four-Ball Match Play Championship, beating seven-time champions Larry Stubblefield and Andrew Feldmann 3 and 2. The winners received $1,500 each.

The Aloha Section PGA event was played at Oahu Country Club, where Feldmann is director of golf and Stubblefield is a longtime member. But Wednesday afternoon, despite all their local knowledge, they could not get a putt to drop.

After blitzing through their first three matches with a flock of birdies and nine eagles, Kua and McCauley collected just two birdies in an afternoon final buffeted by blasts of wind. That was two more than their opponents, who played the 16-hole match in 2 over and still hung tough.

“They are very consistent,” Kua said. “There wasn’t one time out there where I was like, ‘All right, we got ’em.’ They were always in play and close. If a few of their putts dropped it could have been a different story.”

Stubblefield, a former tour golfer now in the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame, felt the pain.

“The front nine we had four gorgeous putts that just lipped out,” he said. “That’s usually the difference. And they played solid.

“Even though this is not a difficult course, wind is wind and it makes a huge difference. The greens are really, really fast, which I enjoy, but these are fast. When the wind is blowing and they’re fast there are certain putts you can’t even make.”

The foursome halved the first seven holes with par, and bogeys at Nos. 8 and 9 put Kua and McCauley 2 up at the turn.

McCauley, a teaching pro, finally got a putt to drop on the 12th. He drained the first birdie of the match 21⁄2 hours into it. It was one of the toughest and quickest he hit all day, a downhill 15-footer from the back fringe.

“It was all luck,” he said. “TJ lined me up. He knows these greens too well.”

Kua called it the turning point. “My rule is, if I go 3 up I shouldn’t lose it,” he said. “If I go 3 down that means I have a heck of a lot of work to do.”

McCauley launched his next drive out of bounds. Left alone, Kua three-putted the 13th for bogey to cut their advantage to 2 up.

Kua got redemption soon after, hitting the green in two at the 581-yard, par-5 15th. He missed his 7-foot eagle putt, but birdie held up when Feldmann and Stubblefield both missed from inside 10 feet. When they couldn’t convert again on the next green, it was over.

In morning semifinals, Feldmann and Stubblefield defeated Hilo’s Kevin Hayashi and Lance Taketa 3 and 2. McCauley and Kua blew by Jerry Mullen and Damien Jamila 7 and 6.

“For three days we killed it with birdies and eagles,” McCauley said. “This afternoon we were just tired.”