The tournament followed two ground rules and they are as follows: the 4 person scramble which is when played as a foursome, teams are usually constructed with an A player, B player, C player and D player, with those players designated based on handicaps.
The A player would be the low-handicapper, the D player the high-handicapper. The best of the tee shots is selected and all players play their second shots from that spot. The better of the two shots is determined, and then all play their third shots from that spot, and so on until the ball is holed.
Double Peoria handicap system; the tournament committee secretly selects six holes. These are usually two par 3s, two par 4s and two par 5s, and often one of each type per nine (one par 3 on the front, the other on the back nine). Competitors do not know which holes have been selected.
Each player totals his six secret holes. That total is multiplied by 3; par is subtracted from that total; then the resulting number is multiplied by 80 percent. This is the player’s allowance. The allowance is subtracted from the player’s gross score and the result is the net Peoria System score.
Toshiyuki partnered up with Itsuro Hosoda, Masami Ogura and Satsuko Ogura. The three then went on to top 27 other teams in the four-person scramble format and double Peoria handicap system tournament. The group gathered a net score of 61.6 to bag the event.
Then came the group made up of Steve Jang, Tony Satur, Adam Lee and Sean Lee who netted a 64. And last but not least the team composed of Faye Crozat, Niramai Koebel, Willie Matsumoto and Aya Matsumoto who clocked in at 65.4. All of the winners were awarded hotel accommodations.
Competitor Louis Byun won a free entry into the up coming Tournament of Champions 2011 and golf balls winning the Longest Drive of the Day award on hole No. 10. Byun also received a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and a bag for getting his golf ball closest to the hazard line during his tee off on hole #12.
There were other prizes and awards up for grabs during the tournament which included the speed hole award pocketed off by Bret Nelson, Jeff Taylor, Richard Pierce, and Ben Babauta after tackling down hole #2 in just 52 seconds.
Chun Wu Kang and Sherlyn Jones won the Longest Drive award after Kang smacked a 210 yard tee off to hole No. 5 while Jones came in with a record of a 130 yard tee off.
Another award up for grabs was the Most Accurate Drive award carted home by Nick Sablan after getting his golf ball to land three inches from the middle of the fairway on hole #9 after tee off. All awardees for the Most Accurate Drive and Longest Drive were given Nike golf bags.
Hyatt’s GM Nick Nishikawa won the Closest to the Pin award on hole #11 landing the ball just three inches from the cup. He was awarded a hotel stay provided by Pacific Islands Club.
During the banquet Nick Nishikawa thanked all of the participants and supporters of the golf tournament. He also gladly announced that all proceeds will be donated to the Make A Wish foundations to help those who are in need.
