Thankfully, Michelle Wie and her fractured hand are not all that’s going on in Hawaii women’s golf this past month.

The rest of the news is definitely brighter, especially for three-time state high school champion Mariel Galdiano, who just won her second straight collegiate tournament.

That happened just after Kyung Kim, who grew up on Maui, earned co-medalist honors at LPGA Stage II Qualifying. She and Stephanie Kono are playing in the inaugural LPGA Q-Series this week and next at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina.

Earlier this month in Florida, Hawaii’s Patricia (Schremmer) Ehrhart reached the quarterfinals of the 57th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, beating seven-time USGA champion Ellen Port for the second consecutive year.

And Tuesday, Heather McGinnis became the first golfer other than Ehrhart to win the Hawaii State Women’s Golf Association Member Stroke Play Championship.

Here’s a capsule look at the past month:

>> The Big Wiesy announced on her Instagram account last week that, after “countless MRI’s, X-rays, CT scans, and doctor consultations,” she was diagnosed with “a small Avulsion Fracture, bone spurring, and nerve entrapment” in her right hand.

Wie, who won her fifth LPGA title in February, had surgery last Thursday and won’t play again this year. She wrote that she had been dealing with pain in her hand all year. She had played with a modified swing since withdrawing in the first round of this year’s Ricoh Women’s British Open.

>> In stark contrast, Galdiano’s game has never looked better. The Punahou alum, and UCLA junior, got her first collegiate title a month ago at the Golfweek Conference Challenge. A 29 on the front nine helped her shoot 65, the best round of a collegiate career that has seen her earn second-team All-America honors twice already.

She won again Sunday, sharing medalist honors in the Stanford Intercollegiate while setting a new career low with 62 in the second round. Galdiano finished at 8 under.

“I finally have my putting game where I want it to be,” Galdiano says. “I’ve been working on it for a long time now with my coaches at school along with my dad at home. My focus these days is much more on hitting quality shots and having quality practices, as well as staying patient when things aren’t going my way.”

Bruin teammate Patty Tavatanakit, whose final-round 63 prevented USC freshman — and Kaiser graduate — Malia Nam from winning her collegiate debut, took second at the Challenge, which sixth-ranked UCLA won by 33 shots.

Tavatanakit and senior teammate Lilia Vu did not play last weekend because they are in this week’s LPGA Q-Series. Top-ranked USC won its second straight tournament at Stanford. Nam took 10th and now has a trio of Top-11 finishes in as many collegiate starts.

Former Punahou teammates Allisen Corpuz and Aiko Leong did not play for the Trojans last week, but were part of USC’s win at the Windy City Collegiate.

The Trojans and Bruins play next in the Nanea Pac-12 Preview, Nov. 5-7 on the island of Hawaii.

>> Kono, a Punahou alum who played on the LPGA tour in 2012, shot 74 in Wednesday’s opening round of the Q-Series. She is tied for 29th at Pinehurst No. 6. Kim is a shot back and has a share of 40th.

The top 45 and ties after four more rounds next week, at Pinehurst No. 7, get LPGA membership next year. The rest of the 102-player field heads to the Symetra Tour.

Kim moved to Arizona in the eighth grade and won the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links before becoming a three-time All-American at USC. She was was one of 41 golfers, from 14 countries, who advanced out of last week’s LPGA Stage II Qualifier.

Kono won her first Symetra event this year and finished 14th on the money list — four spots away from getting back to the LPGA.

The cut came at even-par 288, with Hawaii’s Alexandra White and Alexandra Kaui (both 297), Marissa Chow (299), Britney Yada and Nicole Sakamoto (both 302), and Brittany Fan (311) not making it.

>> Ehrhart fell to Australian Sue Wooster, 1-up, in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur quarterfinals. Lisa Judge, Mira Jang and Agnes Yamauchi, who all qualified for the Senior Amateur in Hawaii, did not advance to match play.

Ehrhart, a former LPGA tour player, was 23rd in this year’s inaugural U.S. Senior Women’s Open. Former Hawaii residents Cindy Rarick and Lenore Rittenhouse were 52nd and 75th, respectively.

>> Last year, Ehrhart reached the semifinals of the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur championships, and won her third consecutive HSWGA Members State Stroke Play Championship. Tuesday at Mililani McGinnis won the fourth annual event, shooting 78 both days to beat Yindi Fowler (77—157) by a shot. Jeannie Pak and Miki Young finished four back. Kyong Omura, an 11-handicapper, took A Flight with a net score of 139.