Maui Sports

Mana O Maui is now accepting applications for full scholarships to attend a week-long, all-inclusive Women’s Surf Camp, hosted by Maui Surfer Girls, Jan. 18–24, 2026. These scholarships are dedicated to supporting Maui women who were deeply affected by the Lahaina or Kula fires of 2023 and who would  otherwise be unable to attend. Applications are open until Nov. 15, 2025, with recipients to be announced by Dec. 1, 2025.

Kapalua Golf’s Plantation Course will reopen for play on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. The golf course has been closed since Sept. 2, 2025 to allow Kapalua Golf’s agronomy team to restore turf health following prolonged irrigation restrictions. 

The Sony Open in Hawaiʻi at Waiʻalae Country Club on Oʻahu will be the 2026 PGA Tour season opener Jan. 15-18 after the Tour announced today that The Sentry will not be contested in 2026. 

The 8th Maui Amateur wrapped over the weekend at the King Kamehameha Golf Club.  In the Championship flight, Kāneʻohe resident Derek Chinen fired a 5-under par 67 to win by three shots over James Whitworth.

Kurt Suzuki, a 2001 graduate from Mauiʻs Baldwin High School, will become the first MLB manager from Hawai’i when he takes command of the Los Angeles Angels.

The Warriors rolled to a 27-7 win over Lahainaluna on Friday night at Kana‘iaupuni Stadium to clinch another trip to state with a 3-0 record in the second round of Maui Interscholastic League play — they were already the first-round champions in Division II with a 4-0 record.

Junior tennis players from across the Hawaiian Islands came together this past weekend for the Royal Lahaina Fall Junior Open at the Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch. The two-day tournament featured exciting matches, strong competition, and great displays of sportsmanship, tournament officials reported. The event was hosted by USTA’s Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch with volunteer support from Wailuku Junior Tennis Club […]

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Athletics Department successfully concluded its annual Giving Week, raising nearly $1.34 million from more than 1,200 donors from Sept. 6-16. The funds generated through the “Our Team. Hawai‘i’s Team” campaign are earmarked to support student-athletes through scholarships, academic resources, nutrition programs, mental health services and facility improvements. “We’re at […]

Player registration has opened for the annual Wailea Fall Doubles Tennis Tournament, Nov. 8 to 10, 2025, at the Wailea Tennis Club.

The Maui Chapter of Surfers Healing, a national organization that introduces children and adults with special needs to the joy of surfing, will host its annual event this Saturday, Oct. 11, at Launiupoko Beach Park from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Oʻahu Canoe Racing Association announces the 73rd crossing of the Kaiwi Channel, where more than 110 crews battle in the Molokaʻi Hoe World Championship canoe races, presented by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

The Warriors took another impressive step towards showing everyone who’s boss in Maui high school football with a 49-28 win over Baldwin on Friday night at Kanai’aupuni Stadium.

The owner of Kapalua Golf, Tadashi Yanai has pledged $750,000 to various Maui nonprofits, a effort that is aimed at reaffirming the commitment of Kapalua Golf / TY Management to the Maui community.

A golf tournament benefiting the Aloha Mākena Foundation will take place Sunday, Oct. 19, marking the fourth community golf event hosted this year by the Mākena Golf & Beach Club.

The first state high school surfing tournament will take place next year at Ho’okipa Beach Park, a nod to the three-decade effort of Maui’s Kim Ball to finally make the official state sport of Hawai’i also a state high school sport.

Gov. Josh Green joined Rep. Sean Quinlan, Olympic gold medalist Carissa Moore, Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) Surfing co-coordinator Kim Ball, student athletes and members of our surfing community to celebrate the announcement that surfing will become an official interscholastic state championship sport beginning in Spring 2026.

Maui Ocean Center will present the 15th annual Maui 5K from 7 to 9 a.m. Sunday, March 1, 2026. Registration is now open, with new youth rates for ages 5 to 17.  

Karsyn Pupunu and Frank Abreu, a pair of Kamehameha Schools Maui alumni, are the only Maui Interscholastic League graduates on the Rainbow Warriors’ football roster this season. 

The Hawaiʻi State Senate is urging PGA officials to find a home for The Sentry in Hawaiʻi after last week’s announcement that the tournament would not hold the event at the Plantation Course at Kapalua in 2026. The decision comes after 27 years on Maui and was attributed to “ongoing drought conditions, water conservation requirements, agronomic conditions and logistical challenges.”

The Maui Chamber of Commerce today released a statement in response to the PGA Tour’s announcement that The Sentry, the season-opening event of the PGA Tour, will not be held at the Plantation Course at Kapalua in 2026. This difficult decision was made due to ongoing drought conditions and severe water conservation requirements impacting the island.