Mark Chun will be at Ala Wai this weekend, along with many of his friends, to defend his title in the 26th Mayor's Cup. Chun's two-day total of 1-under-par 139 last year was a shot better than Tadd Fujikawa and Keith Kishimoto.

Chun also won the Barbers Point Invitational last September. That tournament is Sept. 23 to 25.

Chun opens defense at Ala Wai on Saturday at 7:15 a.m. in a rare tournament sixsome, with Oahu Country Club Men's Invitational champ Blaine Kimura, Harry Yamashiro, Bryan Edwards and brothers Shannon and Shawn Tanoue.

Kishimoto and Fujikawa are also back this year. Fujikawa, 14, was the first-round Mayor's Cup leader last year when he opened with a 66. He won this year's Hickam Invitational.

The diverse Championship Flight also includes 13-year-old Bradley Shigezawa, 2003 state high school champion Troy Higashiyama and 70-year-old Hawai'i Hall of Famer Wendell Kop.

Mari Chun won the women's flight a year ago, but won't defend because she is starting her freshman year at Stanford.

The small (11 players) women's flight does include two-thirds of the squad that will represent Hawai'i at the Women's State Team Championship on the Mainland later this month: State Women's Match Play champion Cyd Okino, a seventh grader at Kaimuki Middle School, and Nicole Sakamoto, a Kalani sophomore.

DWYER, MIYAJIMA IN LPGA SECTION QUALIFIER

Hawai'i's Bridget Dwyer and Shayna Miyajima will play in the 2005 LPGA Sectional Qualifying Tournament at Rancho Mirage, Calif. The first of two sectionals will be Sept. 20 to 2 at Mission Hills Country Club, site of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first LPGA major of the year.

The field will be cut to the low 70 players and ties after 36 holes. After four rounds, the top 30 and ties advance to the LPGA Tour's Final Qualifying Tournament at LPGA International's Legends Course in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Japanese sensation Ai Miyazato also is entered in the first sectional. The 201-player field features 77 international players from 26 countries outside the U.S., as well as two players from Puerto Rico. South Korea is represented by the most players with 18. There also are 32 states represented.

The second LPGA Tour Sectional Qualifying Tournament is Oct. 4 to 7 at Plantation Golf and Country Club's Bobcat and Panther courses in Venice, Fla. The California qualifiers will join Venice qualifiers, current LPGA Tour members attempting to improve their status and the 10 players from the top of the 2005 Futures Tour money list at the final qualifying tournament.