MAUNA LANI, Hawaii » With winds brutally constant the final two days, the $60,000 Mauna Lani Resort Hawaii State Open became a battle of survival skills.

The last golfers left standing on top of the scoreboard, in winds up to 50 mph, included a PGA Tour champ from Kaneohe who turns 45 next week, a guy a decade older who is about to be inducted into the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame and a 16-year-old making a career comeback.

Dean Wilson birdied the North Course’s last hole Sunday to win his third State Open, and second in three years at Mauna Lani. He can add the $10,000 first prize to the $9 million he won on the PGA Tour, and a few more million in Japan.

The Castle High graduate needed the birdie to shoot even-par 72 and finish at 212 — a shot ahead of Richard "Sun Il" Jung, a pro from Canada, and North Carolina pro Ryan Heisey. Both, somewhat astonishingly, shot in the 60s in the wind tunnel that was the Kona Coast this weekend.

Jung fired a 68 with an eagle and three bogeys that nullified the three 2s on his card. Heisey had a 69, with five birdies in an eight-hole span.

Wilson, who shot 70 the first two days to take a three-stroke advantage into the final round, was 2 over in his round through 13 holes. He squeezed in a birdie on the 14th, then hit his tee shot on the 17th and heard he needed a birdie coming in to win.

On the 18th, which gave new definition to "downwind" the past two days, he coaxed a 52-degree wedge to stop 12 feet behind the hole, then raised his fist in victory when his putt fell.

"I just kept visualizing birdie on the last hole," Wilson said, "and I made birdie."

A year ago, he was tied with University of Hawaii Hilo alum Nick Mason at the end of regulation. Wilson missed three birdie putts in the playoff and failed to defend his 2012 title. He won his first State Open in 2007 by sinking an eagle putt on the final hole.

It was windy that day, but nothing like the past two at Mauna Lani, which moved its tees up and put the pins in level places to keep the course playable.

"It’s really hard to play in this," Wilson said. "You just keep hitting knockdown shots and practicing on the range when it’s blowing sideways."

Wilson had one of only four sub-par scores Saturday. Jung and Heisey had the only ones Sunday, but Casey Nakama came close in running away with the senior title.

Michelle Wie’s original coach, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in February, had a share of first in the senior division with amateur Mike Kawate going into the final day.

With one exception Sunday — an errant shot into the lava for triple-bogey at No. 10 — Nakama was flawless. He closed with a 73 that left him at 216.

Punahou junior Allisen Corpuz, who has verbally committed to play for USC in 2016, wanted this one after a difficult past year. Sunday, on a South Course more exposed to the elements than the North, she desperately held onto the 10-shot advantage she took into the final round to capture her first State Open.

Corpuz cleaned up early in her junior career, here and on the mainland. She broke Wie’s "youngest" records when she qualified for the U.S. Women’s Public Links at 10 and captured the Hawaii State Women’s Match Play championship at 11.

For the first time in her precocious career, she struggled the past year. A wrist injury kept her off the course for nearly four months this year.

Corpuz says she is only now starting to "hit the shots I want to, which is big for me because when I first started playing again I was not sure where my shots were going to go."