Maui Sports

By Maui Now Staff American Jared Donaldson, 18, played extraordinary tennis on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, to take home the trophy at this year’s Royal Lāhainā Challenger. Donaldson defeated Nicolas Meister 6-1, 6-4. Donaldson started off strong with a first set lead of 4-0. He took the first set, and dominated the first half of the second set, leading Meister 5-2. […]

Jared Donaldson and Nicolas Meister are competing for $ 50,000 in prize money in today’s Royal Lahaina Challenger finals.

The U.S. Tennis Association Hawai‘i Pacific Section has announced the USTA Men’s Royal Lāhainā Challenger, a world-class tennis event to be held Jan. 25 to Feb. 1, 2015.

Kolten Wong talks about his favorite Big Island spots, pre-game rituals, his relationship with Shane Victorino and even his opinion on Marcus Mariota…

Four shots behind with four holes to play, Patrick Reed made two birdies and holed out from 80 yards for an eagle Monday, and then closed out his unlikely rally by making an 18-foot birdie putt to beat Jimmy Walker in a playoff at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

With all the conditions golfers have to contend with, keeping it simple at The Plantation Course is proving to be the best strategy for Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama.

The beat down continued Saturday at The Plantation Course. The good news is there is no winner-by-technical knockout. The bad news is Mother Nature is busy dealing with cold fronts on the mainland and has no plan to downgrade the epic conditions contributing to the logjam atop the 2015 Hyundai Tournament of Champions’ leaderboard.

And now for a lesson on putting. That was the theme Friday during first-round action of the 2015 Hyundai Tournament of Champions, as the elite winner’s-only field assassinated a defenseless Plantation Course, led by Russell Henley’s bogey-free, 8-under-par 65.

The University of Hawai’i baseball program will conduct a free coaches clinic Saturday, Jan. 10, at the University of Hawai’i Maui College.

The Hyundai Tournament of Champions, the PGA Tour’s winners-only event, kicks off the golfing New Year at the legendary Plantation Course at the Kapalua Resort.

The Hyundai Tournament of Champions features the PGA TOUR’s best and brightest as they take on Kapalua’s famed Plantation Course on Maui.

Since it took two days to finish last year, organizers of the Pa’ia Bay Beachfest decided to make this year’s 18th annual contest a two-day event.

The PGA Tour begins 2015 on Maui with the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the Kapalua Resort. Defending champion Zach Johnson leads the strong, select field of 34 players who collectively have accounted for 100 PGA Tour wins.

The 10th annual HMSA Kaimana Awards & Scholarship Program for Hawaii high school seniors graduating in 2015 is officially open to all interested individual applicants.

In addition to the points race to qualify for the 2015 World Championship Tour and rankings points for the Vans Triple Crown, Hawaiian Airlines added another contest to the stakes this season in Hawaii: The Best-in-Class competition, which awards 250,000 air miles to the surfer with the best two-wave total at the end of Triple Crown.

History was made Friday, the last day of the 2014 World Championship Tour (WCT) as Gabriel Medina won Brazil’s first world surfing title on his way to finishing runner-up to Queensland’s Julian Wilson at the Billabong Pipe Masters on Oahu.

Hawaii’s Marcus Mariota won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday in New York by a landslide over co-finalists Melvin Gordon and Amari Cooper.

The 2015 Hyundai Tournament of Champions will be giving away two band new vehicles to the player — and his caddie — who makes a hole-in-one on No. 8 during any of the four days of competition.

Using Wednesday’s season opener as a measuring stick, fans of Maui Interscholastic League boys soccer can expect a break-neck tempo, in-your-face, attacking brand of football, not for the faint of heart.

University of Hawaii Athletics Director Ben Jay, who resigned Tuesday, will continue to run the day-to-day operations for athletics and be paid his current $293,000-a-year base salary through the end of June or until his departure.