Michelle Wie celebrated her 25th year with a heart-warming homecoming victory at the LPGA Lotte Championship and a memorable U.S. Women’s Open championship in 2014.

In Hawaii, local golfers also celebrated what Wie helped inspire as golfers a decade younger had breakout years.

Kyle Suppa, Shawn Lu, Kyosuke Hara and Spencer Dunaway won Hawaii’s first Boys Junior America’s Cup since 1996. In an event that brings together the best juniors in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Lu was the only one in red numbers, earning medalist honors.

He and Hara — both juniors at Moanalua — would be at or near the top of leaderboards all year. Suppa is the Hawaii State Golf Association Player of the Year.

The Punahou junior started the year by winning State Amateur Stroke Play, then captured the 63rd annual Francis Brown Four Ball with Hara. Suppa was low amateur at the Mid-Pacific Open and qualified for Junior Worlds and U.S. Junior Amateur.

Last month, he captured the amateur exemption for next month’s Sony Open in Hawaii. Earlier this month, he won his age group at the Michelle Wie Tournament of Champions, as Wie’s influence came full circle — she won the oldest age division in 2002. She was 12 at the time.

Dunaway, the only senior on Hawaii’s winning Cup team, is headed to Brigham Young on a golf scholarship. So is ‘Iolani’s Rose Huang, who lived in Beijing until she was 4. She spent this summer playing all over the country and was home just long enough to capture an HSJGA State Championship.

It was also a year for rare college success. University of Hawaii Hilo swept the Pacific West titles, behind medalists Kristen Sawada and Dalen Yamauchi. UH-Manoa won its first collegiate tournament since 2006, behind Ryan Kuroiwa, and sophomore Izzy Leung got the Rainbow Wahine’s first individual title in eight years.

Nainoa Calip was Big West runner-up in April then won the 106th Manoa Cup at Oahu Country Club in June. Two months later, he became the seventh in history to capture the state match play and OCC Invitational titles in the same year, after Kalua Makalena (1981), Brandan Kop (1998), Alex Ching (2008), David Fink (2010), Matthew Ma (2012) and Jared Sawada (2013).

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