LANIKAI — Most of the elements of Mari Chun's march to Stanford converged on the final hole of yesterday's Hawai'i State Women's Golf Association Stroke Play Championship.

Mother Lani carried her bag while father Alan walked the Mid-Pacific Country Club fairway. Four of Chun's Kamehameha Schools Math Team colleagues, who also share Advanced Placement classes in Calculus and Physics, showed up to calculate she could 15-putt the last hole and still win.

Chun's golf game, which will pay for the Stanford scholarship, was the piece de resistance. She two-putted the final hole for her 14th consecutive par and first Stroke Play Championship, and made it look awfully easy.

Chun closed with a 1-under-par 71 to win by 14 shots over Bobbi Kokx (78-228). Ku'ulei Ka'ae (75-231) took third in her inaugural Stroke appearance.

Cyd Okino, 11, who became the youngest State Match Play champion this summer, was fourth at 73-233. Punahou senior Erin Matsuoka also shot 73 to move up to fifth (236).

The top five was a snapshot of the field, which ranged in age from 11 to 62. Chun, 17, is a generation younger than Kokx, 41, and Ka'ae, 51, but could be Okino's babysitter.

"I look at Mari as one of the 'adults' because she's always been really mature," Kokx said. "She's a little goofy at times, but she has a really mature game."

And a passion for golf that has kept her playing, gleefully, all but non-stop this summer.

"It was so much fun playing with Bobbi and Ku'ulei," Chun said. "It felt almost like a national tournament because they were hitting some pretty aggressive shots. It was great, a really good atmosphere."

Chun completed her career grand slam of Hawai'i's women's majors a month before starting her freshman year at Stanford. She shot par or better everyday on the same course where she captured the Jennie K. three months ago. She won State Match Play last year.

She took a seven-shot advantage into the final day, bogeyed No. 1 and proceeded to drop the hammer on the field with a vicious thud. Chun played the final 17 holes in 2-under, birdieing Nos. 3 and 4 and parring home with her game on "auto-pilot" and a remarkably reliable putter.

"My plan was not to have any bogeys, so when that happened on the first hole, I told my mom, 'That's not going to happen again,'" Chun said. "The rest of the day I was just attempting to make birdies."

It was a drastic change from the Jennie K., where she also took a seven-stroke lead into the final day, shot 80 and had to scramble in a playoff to beat 13-year-old Ayaka Kaneko.

This time Chun finished with a flourish. Her 2-under total of 214 was two off the tournament record set by Stephanie Kono in 2003. Chun compensated for that gap with a margin of victory two shots better than Kono's.

"I wasn't afraid of it happening again because this was a totally different situation," said Chun, who took her mind off golf this week by reading the new Harry Potter book. "I felt more comfortable today because I had goals. I really focused on my own game rather than thinking, 'Oh, what would happen if ...'"

She said the change came from her summer experiences in national events on the Mainland, including the U.S. Women's Public Links, where Chun was co-medalist and a quarterfinalist.

She was second in this event the past two years. Kokx also finished second in 2000 — a shot ahead of 10-year-old Michelle Wie — and third in 2002. She has won the other two majors, but is still looking for her first Stroke Play title.

Realistically, her chance this year ended when she opened with an 81.

"Maybe if there was one more day I'd have had a chance," Kokx said. "I just wanted to play my best and have a low score today, and it didn't happen. I wasn't thinking of first, second or third.

"Mari hits the ball really well off the tee. She puts it by the hole and she's a good putter. To make up ground on a player like that is very difficult."

NOTES

Anna Umemura is the only golfer to win all three Hawai'i women's majors in one year, accomplishing it in 1997. In the past five years, Mari Chun, Stephanie Kono (2003) and Michelle Wie (2001) have won Jennie K. and Stroke Play the same year.