TJ Kua heads into his sophomore year at the University of Hawai'i with his second victory of the "offseason" after winning the Barbers Point Invitational yesterday.

Kua, who won this year's Manoa Cup, sank a 4-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat 2004 Manoa Cup champion Ryan Perez by one shot. Kua trailed Perez by a shot heading into the final round and closed with a 4-under-par 68 for a three-day total of 7-under 209.

Kua and the Warriors start their fall season the end of this month at Oregon State's tournament.

Perez was 5-under for the day and 9-under for the tournament on the 17th tee, but finished double-bogey, bogey to shoot 70. The former Warrior was coming off a victory at the Army Invitational.

Jonathan Ota, the 2006 Manoa Cup champ, took third at 72—214. Defending champion Lorens Chan, an 'Iolani sophomore, shot the tournament's low round — a 5-under 67 — to pull into four at 215.

Harold Higashida (78—226) won A Flight and Eddie Agustin (77—240) B Flight.

Kua's uncle, Hawai'i Golf Hall of Famer David Ishii, tied for first at the Japan Senior Tour's Komatsu Open yesterday, but lost out to Tomohito Maruyama on the first extra hole in a four-way playoff. The tournament was played at Komatsu Country Club in Ishikawa, Japan.

Ishii opened the tournament with rounds of 68 and 69, then shot even-par 72 to finish at 7-under 209. Others in the playoff were Masami Ito and Boonchu Ruangkit. All four golfers in the playoff are in the Top 20 on the Japan Senior Circuit's Order of Merit.

Maruyama, who recently turned 50, won the 2006 Hawai'i Pearl Open, run by Ishii.