In the roller-coaster world of the Gov. John A. Burns Challenge Cup, Hawaii’s professionals are riding high. But if history is any indication, their dominance over amateur opponents is near an end.

The pros just won Hawaii’s version of the Ryder Cup for the fourth consecutive year, at Mid-Pacific Country Club. The score was 15-9, with Four-Ball and alternate-shot teams Monday and 12 singles matches Tuesday. All but two of the singles went at least 16 holes.

That puts the pros up 27-18, with a tie in 1983. The winning score has been nearly identical the last four years.

But the amateurs won the previous eight Cups or, as pro captain Andrew Feldmann put it last year, “pummeled” the pros.

The players on the last winning amateur team in 2014 included Nainoa Calip, Brent Grant, David Saka, Alika Bell and Corey Kozuma. They are pros now, while Kyosuke Hara and Shawn Lu are playing for Oregon State.

Manoa Cup champs Matt Ma and Tyler Ota, who both work at Golf Concepts, were also on that team. They are the only amateurs who went 3-0 this week, with Ota closing out Juan Rodriguez with a 40-foot birdie putt on the 17th Tuesday.

“Tell me how the hell you make that,” Rodriguez said, with a big smile. “Awesome.”

All the other matches were pau, the pros clinching early with wins in five of the first six matches. Waialae Country Club head pro Kevin Carll, Hawaii Pacific coach Ryan Acosta and Mackenzie Tour player Jared Sawada also went unbeaten this week.

Sawada beat Peter Jung, keeping the Maryknoll sophomore winless a week after he earned the amateur exemption in the PGA Tour’s Sony Open in Hawaii — by beating his 11 Burns Cup teammates.

That exemption is a huge inspiration for the amateurs, who earn their place on the Burns Cup team based on a points system at amateur tournaments the past year.

The pros’ Sony Open exemption goes to the winner of their Stroke Play Championship. Eric Dugas claimed it for the second straight year.

He did not play this week, but the pro team was fine without him.

“We’ve played together a lot more,” explained Nanea director of golf Kris Kitt. “Amateurs, every four or five years, are usually somewhere else. It’s very different.

“The talent is there on both sides. It’s just that we’ve been together a lot longer and right now it’s working for us. Usually, they should beat us.”

The amateurs have, even before their eight-year blitz. Hawaii Golf Hall of Famer Allan Yamamoto clinched the inaugural Burns Cup for the amateurs in 1973.

The pros won 11 of the next 13, but it has been basically even since, with wins often coming in bunches. The pros have never won more than five straight.

Why the roller coaster?

“I think at certain times a bunch of good junior golfers just come through,” shrugs Davis Lee, who has won Mayors Cup, the Big Island Amateur and a junior event since summer.

Clearly, the Burns Cup has lived through 46 years of cycles, and another could be coming. Amateur coach Guy Yamamoto, who got into two Hawaiian Opens via Burns Cup, had four high school players this week. Lee was the oldest, with Jung, Noah Koshi and Kolbe Irei all sophomores.

All learned a lot this week.

“Yesterday I played with a guy (Acosta) who had six birdies the first seven holes,” Lee said. “That gave me motivation to practice more. His wedges pretty much got him all the birdies, he stuffed them all close. I’ve got to work on my wedges.”

This week’s opponents will help him. Rodriguez, Kitt’s assistant at Nanea, often offers to break down opponent’s swings on Mid-Pac’s driving range after matches. Dean Wilson basically held a clinic one year.

Burns Cup is a competition, but it is also a time to come together — as a team and Hawaii’s golf ohana — and celebrate this roller-coaster game. The amateurs realize the pros have little to gain at the Cup — there is no prize money.

The pros, who play much less than most amateurs, feel a pull to help Hawaii’s future.

“There is camaraderie,” Kitt says. “And we (pros) don’t really have match play anymore and this is big for that. The other reason we come is, you don’t have to depend on your own ball. Juan and I have won like 10 tournaments together so we always ham-and-egg it.

“And, these amateurs are the next generation of Hawaii golfers. … We were in their shoes somewhere along the line. We all wanted to play golf, that’s why we still do this. We love this game. At the end of the day, we all love golf.”