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2025-2026 Men's Golf Roster

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Dane Watanabe

  • Class:
    Junior
  • Hometown:
    Kane‘ohe, O‘ahu
  • Highschool:
    ‘Iolani School

Summary

Biography

2024-25 (Sophomore):
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Competed in all 10 tournaments
  • Finished with a 73.87 scoring average
  • Selected to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team
  • Recorded 10 rounds of par or better including one in the 60s
  • Best finish was a tie for 23rd at the Pan Pacific Super League in Japan
  • Career-low 54-hole score of 1-under 212 at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational
  • Carded even-par 216 at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate
  • Low round of 2-under 69 in the opening round of the Alister MacKenzie Invitational
  • Named academic all-Big West
  • Named to the Big West Commissioners Honor Roll
 
2023-24 (Freshman):
  • Competed in all 10 tournaments
  • Finished with a 75.37 scoring average
  • Best finish was a tie for 40th place at the Bill Cullum Invitational where he totaled 227
  • Low round was 4-under 68 on the final day of the Kapolei Invitational
  • Posted low 54-hole score of 3-under 213 at the Kapolei Invite
  • Posted 2-under 214 at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate, where he tied for 84th place
  • Recorded four rounds under par and two in the 60s

Prep:
  • A 2023 graduate of ‘Iolani School in Honolulu, O‘ahu
  • 2023 HHSAA Individual State Champion
  • Captured the 2023 Interscholastic League of Honolulu Individual title
  • Four-time first-team all-ILH
  • 2023 Eddie Hamada Award recipient for Varsity Boys Golf
  • Won multiple Player of the Year titles in Hawai‘i State Junior Golf Association, Junior Golf Association of Hawai‘i, O‘ahu Junior Golf Association, and Casey Nakama Junior Golf Tour
  • Won the 2021 Klipper Amateur with scores of 73, 65, 73 for a 5-under 211 total
  • Captured the 2022 Kaua‘i Amateur with scores of 68, 71, 73 for a 4-under 212 total
  • Member of the National Honor Society
 
Personal:
  • Born in Honolulu, O‘ahu
  • Parents are Lance and Colleen Watanabe of Kane‘ohe, O‘ahu


2024-25
Place Tournament Score
T-23 Pan Pacific Super League Tournament 75-80-74=229 (+13)
T-58 Alister MacKenzie Invitational 69-72-71=212 (-1)
T-30 Kapolei Invitational 73-73-75=221 (+5)
T-80 Ka‘anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational 73-71-71=215 (+2)
T-83 Amer Ari Invitational 71-73-72=216 (E)
T-51 John A. Burns Intercollegiate 76-70-70=216 (+6)
84 Lamkin Invitational 71-78-79=228 (+12)
T-62 Thunderbird Intercollegiate 75-74-84=233 (+17)
T-79 Western Intercollegiate 76-75-74=225 (+15)
T-40 Big West Championship 75-74-72=221 (+5)

2023-24
Place Tournament Score
T-72 William H. Tucker Intercollegiate 72-76-77=225 (+9)
T-40 Bill Cullum Invitational 79-70-78=227 (+11)
T-108 Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational 76-77-72=225 (+12)
T-62 Kapolei Invitational 73-72-68=213 (-3)
T-84 Amer Ari Invitational 69-72-73=214 (-2)
T-93 John A. Burns Intercollegiate 71-77-81=229 (+13)
91 Lamkin Invitational 76-81-77=234 (+18)
T-107 Cowboy Classic 74-75-78=227 (+11)
89 Western Intercollegiate 74-80-80=234 (+24)
T-41 Big West Championship 80-76-77=233 (+17)

Career Statistics
Year TP Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Round Best Finish
2023-24 10 30 2,261 75.37 68 T-40
2024-25 10 30 2,216 73.87 69 T-23
TOTAL 20 60 4,477 74.62 68 T-23

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