Co-workers off the course, the golf partnership of Andy Okita and Justin Taparra again proved productive over their last two weekends.

The defending champions in the Francis Hyde I‘i Brown Four-Ball Match Play Championship completed a second straight title run with a 4-and-2 win over Shannon Tanoue and Mark Takahama in Sunday’s 36-hole final at Ala Wai Golf Course to cap the tournament’s 67th edition.

Taparra had a few minutes to celebrate before heading to work as a general manager at a Domino’s in Mililani, where Okita would join him a few hours later. They squeeze in rounds together when their work and school schedules allow (Taparra will graduate from Chaminade next week) and their chemistry is one of the defining aspects of their back-to-back four-ball titles.

“We’re just so comfortable together that we don’t even get mad out there,” Taparra said. “If one person makes a mistake the other person birdies the hole.”

“That’s pretty much how four-ball is,” Okita added.

While Okita celebrated defending the title with Taparra, he was just half of a victorious Sunday within his own family.

Okita’s father, Glenn, partnered with Carlo Rufo to win the tournament’s B Flight with a 5-and-4 victory over Wayne Matsunaga and Scot Lee.

Glenn entered the tournament’s B Flight with Andy when the youngster was just 10 and the duo advanced to the final that year.

“He was amazing, even at that age,” Glenn Okita said.

They shared another memorable week last summer when Andy captured the Manoa Cup title — the state amateur match-play championship — with Glenn as his caddie. Both will be back at Oahu Country Club in June when Andy returns as the top seed.

Taparra will also enter the Manoa Cup and “I’m gonna try to be the 64 seed so I can play him in the first round,” he joked.

While they’ll work separately next month, their combined efforts pushed them through the 16-team bracket, trailing for just one hole in their four matches.

“We just make each other super confident,” Taparra said. “Both of us put a lot of pressure on ourselves to play well, but when we have a team that’s hitting it well, putting it well together, it’s like we can’t miss out there. One guy hits a good shot, the next guy has extra confidence.”

Okita and Taparra went 4 up after 24 holes in Sunday’s final, but Tanoue and Takahama birdied two of the next three to cut the lead in half. The margin held into their second visit to Ala Wai’s 15th hole where Tanoue and Takahama threatened to close to 1 down. Instead, Okita drained a 15-foot birdie putt on the 163-yard par 3 to push the lead to 3 up with three to play.

Okita effectively ended the match on No. 16 when he stuck his approach from 60 yards out inside of 4 feet to set up a clinching birdie.

Edwin Mariano and Randy Tamashiro won the A Flight title with a 1-up win over Allan Kuaana and Walter Kaneshiro. Mike Kawate and Scott Ichimura claimed the senior flight 4 and 3 over Wes and Brian Watanabe.