Stephanie Kono won all three Hawai'i women's golf majors and the State Open by age 13. At 15, she has her first national title.

Kono concluded a wire-to-wire victory at the Westfield Junior PGA Championship yesterday, shooting a final-round 72 to win by two at Westfield Group Country Club in Ohio.

The Punahou sophomore-to-be opened with a 5-under-par 66 Thursday and finished at 3-under 281. Kimberly Kim, 13, from Pahoa, closed with a 69 — the low round of the day for the girls — to tie for sixth.

Kaimuki sophomore Chan Kim shot 72—282 and shared seventh among the boys. Alex Volpenhein of Kentucky won with 68—272.

Kono, who earned her spot this year by taking fourth last year, says all top 10 finishers are invited back. Westfield is the PGA of America's national championship for boys and girls age 17 and younger. The 111 competitors were champions from each of 41 sections as well as special invitees.

Kono's game was brilliant from tee to green all week. She missed just three greens the first day and two the second. After hitting 13 greens in regulation Friday she missed almost nothing yesterday; she was on the fringe twice on the front and hit every other green.

Her putting was another story the final day. It was so erratic that when Kono hit her approach shot to five feet on the 10th and missed the birdie putt, she consoled herself with "at least it wasn't a bogey."

"I couldn't make anything from five feet. It was crazy," Kono said. "I was starting to worry, getting pretty desperate. Then I made a good two-putt on the 11th and birdied the 12th. That got my confidence back."

She played the front in 3-over and her lead slipped to one. But Kono didn't have a bogey on the back. When she birdied the 17th, with a downhill 15-footer, her lead was back to three.

"She is just hitting the ball so well now," said her coach, Kevin Ralbovsky, who is traveling with the family. "It puts in other players' minds that she's not going to make a mistake. As long as she's confident with her putting she will play a really nice game."

Kristina Wong, from New York, finished second at 71—283. "I looked at the leaderboard all the time to see where I was," Wong said. "I tried to catch up but she (Kono) played really well."

Kono will join Hawai'i's Mari Chun, Kaitlen Miyajima and Kimberly Kim at the U.S. Golf Association Junior Girls Championship, starting tomorrow in Idaho. Kim, Chun and Kono go on to the McDonald's Betsy Rawls Girls Championship in Pennsylvania the following week. Kono is Hawai'i's first alternate for the USGA Women's Amateur Championship the first week of August.

A Westfield highlight show will be on The Golf Channel Sept. 1.