University of Hawai'i at Manoa Athletics

Tournament Facts
Dates: February 13-15, 2025
Format: Three-days; 54 holes (18 holes each day); 5-count-4
Time: 9:00 a.m. shotgun start each day
Course: Ocean Course at Hokuala
Location: Lihu‘e, Kaua‘i
Yardage (Par): 7,098 (70)
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.Clippd.com

Media Relations Contact: Derek Inouchi
Cell Phone: (808) 954-0234
E-mail: inouchi@hawaii.edu
Defending Team Champion: Arizona
Defending Individual Champion: Bastien Amat, New Mexico
 
Participating Teams (17):
Hawai‘i
BYU
California
Fresno State
Grand Canyon
Illinois
Long Beach State
Missouri
New Mexico
Saint Mary's
San Diego State
Santa Clara
Texas A&M
UNLV
Utah
UTEP
Washington State
 

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John A. Burns Intercollegiate History

For nearly half a century, the John A. Burns Intercollegiate is considered the University of Hawai’i’s premiere golf tournament, providing some of the nation’s top-ranked programs with the opportunity to compete against one another in the 50th state. "The Burns" is the seventh-longest collegiate men's tournament in the country.
 
The annual spring tournament has seen tremendous growth since its first year in 1977. The tournament was held primarily at Kane’ohe Klipper Golf Course before moving to Leilehua Golf Course in 2000 for an 11-year run. The tournament then moved to Turtle Bay Resort from 2011-13 and then to Wailua Golf Course on Kaua‘i in 2014 for the next seven years. The tournament remained on Kaua‘i, relocating to Ocean Course at Hokuala in 2022.
 
Among the who’s-who of Burns champions include Bob Clampett, who won at Wailua in 1978, Steve Pate (UCLA, 1983), Notah Begay (Stanford, 1995), Tiger Woods (Stanford, 1996), and Bo Van Pelt (Oklahoma State, 1997). Oklahoma State has a won record six Burns titles while California captured five straight titles from 2011-15.
 
As governor of the state of Hawai’i, Burns longed to see the growth of UH’s athletes at a competitive level with the rest of the nation. He took part in initiating statehood in 1959 and also started the planning and construction for Aloha Stadium – home of UH football and the NFL’s Pro Bowl, as well as other island sporting events and music concerts.
 
Before he passed away on April 15, 1975 at the age of 66, Burns had a hand in upgrading UH’s athletics program. Shortly after his death, his namesake tournament was founded. This tournament reflects back to Burns, the political power who was really a “sportsman at heart.”

Former UH head coach Robert "Bob" Takano created the tournament in 1977 as way to attract the nation's top teams and grow the program from a club sport to a competitive collegiate team. Takano, who coached UH from 1976-82, passed away in 2022 at the age of 89.
 

Low 54-Hole Score:
Team: 810, BYU (2023)
Individual: 196, Ryan Moore, UNLV (2005)
 
Team Championships:
6 – Oklahoma State (1988, ’90, ’93, ’94, ’95, ’97)
5 – California (2011, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15)
4 – Arizona (1992, 2003, ’04, '24), BYU (1977, 2000, ’07, ’23), UNLV (1991, ’98, ’99, 2025)
3 – Texas A&M (2009, ’18, ’20), New Mexico (2001, ‘05, ‘22)
2 – Auburn (1996, 2008), Nihon-Japan (1978, '82), Oklahoma (1981, '89), San Jose State (1979, '80), UCLA (1982, '87)
1 – Arizona State (2019), Lamar (1985), Pacific (1984), San Diego State (2002), SMU (2006), Texas (2016), USC (1986), Utah (2025), Virginia (2017)
 
Individual Medalist:
7 – New Mexico
6 – California
5 – Texas A&M
4 – BYU, UNLV
3 – Oklahoma State, Stanford
2 – Arizona, Oklahoma, San Diego State, SMU, Texas
1 – Arkansas, Colorado, Duke, Fresno State, Hawai‘i, Lamar, Nihon (Japan), San Jose State, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Utah
 
Multiple Individual Medalist:
Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M (2017, ‘18)

Past Tournament Champions

(*) denotes tournament was shortened to two rounds due to rain
(+) won sudden death playoff on 3rd hole  |  ($) won sudden death playoff on 2nd hole
(#) denotes tournament records