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Koolau to host golf
day for women

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Star-Bulletin staff

The Koolau Golf Club will host Women in Golf Day 2002 on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

The program is part of American Golf's commitment to give women more opportunities to learn and play golf as well as support charitable efforts such as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Activities include free golf instructions and demonstrations.

The event is free and open to women 14 and older. Golfers can also enter to win a Koolau Golf Club membership.

Call the Koolau Golf Club pro shop at 236-4653, ext. 1, for more information.

Charities to benefit from golf tournament

The Friends of Hawaii Charities, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and the 2002 Sony Open in Hawaii will hand out grants to 91 organizations from funds generated through the 2002 Sony Open in Hawaii golf tournament at a luncheon at the Waialae Country Club at 11:30 a.m., May 31.

Jennie K. set to begin Friday at Mid-Pac

The Mid-Pacific Country Club will be the site for the 52nd Jennie K. Wilson Women's Invitational.

Michelle Wie, who captured the prestigious trophy last year at the age of 11, will not return to defend her title in the three-day tournament, which begins Friday. Wie will be in South Carolina playing in an LPGA event -- the Asahi Ryokuken International

For more information, call Kathy Ordway at 262-2428.