If this keeps up, “eh” might soon be considered pidgin.

Maui’s Alex Chiarella came out of … well, Makawao, to win a Mackenzie Tour event last month, after missing the cut in his first three starts this year on the PGA Tour’s Canadian circuit.

Honolulu’s Lorens Chan was less of a surprise. He had done everything but win until Sunday, when he finally closed the deal at the inaugural HFX Pro-Am in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Chan shot in the 60s all four days, as he has much of the year. He is 112-under for the season, with five Top 10s in seven starts, and is now ranked third on the Order of Merit with nearly $70,000.

Chan won the first stage of Qualifying School last year in Nevada to keep his Canadian playing privileges. His last win before that was while he was at ‘Iolani.

“Honestly, it was a bit more relief (to win) than anything,” said Chan, a two-time state high school champion. “I was so locked in the whole day, knowing I started with a one-shot lead and with the scores being low and bunched all week, I knew it was still anyone’s game. I didn’t look at a leaderboard until the 18th green.”

By then, mom/caddie Linda knew he had it, and was ecstatic.

“On the 18th green, when I finally looked up to see I had the tournament in my hands, it was just a huge relief, both for me and my mom. I have been close on a couple events this season, so to finally get the win felt amazing and just a huge sigh of relief.”

Chan felt his phone vibrating all through the awards ceremony. When he had time to look, there was a “huge family group chat” that brought laughter — “I seemed to have put them under a lot of stress on the final nine holes” — along with messages from friends like Michelle Wie, Stephanie Kono, Dean Wilson and “Coach” David Ishii.

“It was amazing to feel all the love from everywhere,” Chan said.

It had been a long time, for a guy who won a state swimming championship in backstroke and cross-trained with hula before his late father convinced him to go all in on golf.

“The reasoning was, when I grew up, whatever job I had, was I going to ask my friends to go golfing or ask them to go swimming?” Chan recalled. “I think golf was the clear answer there. It made sense.”

His PGA Tour debut came at age 14, when he earned the amateur exemption for the 2009 Sony Open in Hawaii — on his home course. He was an All-America honorable mention at UCLA, and an All-American Scholar, graduating in Economics three years ago, then making his professional debut in Canada.

From there, his game has only gotten better each year — just the way it was back in the day in Hawaii. Chan says the secret, in a season where his worst round is 1 over, is “just grinding, trying to get better every day.”

That too, is the way he has always been.

“I made some really good progress this year understanding my golf game so things are just starting to click,” he says. “I think it took a lot of belief and drawing on some past experiences to pull out this win.

“So it was just keep telling me to keep going, stay positive and believe in myself. I knew all along I had the game to win, so it was just a matter of time. I’m glad that time has finally come.”

Coincidentally, it came less than a month after Chiarella, also 25, broke through. The three-time Maui Open champion is sixth on the Order of Merit, with $37,500 and five events left.

With Hawaii buddy PJ Semiere on his bag and using the same golf ball all four days, Chiarella won the Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open last month. Chan also held the lead on the back nine in the final round that week.

“There are so many negative thoughts when you miss cuts,” Chiarella recalled on the tour website. “When I missed three in a row, I just wasn’t feeling good, but when that putt went in on the last hole, that was incredible.

“This is my first major, big win. It’s definitely huge.”

The top finisher after September’s last tournament earns full status on the Korn Ferry (formerly Web.com) Tour next season, with Nos. 2-5 getting conditional status and 6-10 getting a pass into Q-School’s Final Stage.

Moanalua alum Brent Grant, who finished 16th Sunday, has a trio of Top-25 finishes this year and is 52nd on the money list.