Tom Eubank came charging out of the pack on the back to prevent a keiki sweep at the Hawai'i State Open yesterday at Hawai'i Prince Golf Club.

Eubank birdied three of the last four holes for a final-round 69. That gave him his second Open championship in four years, with a three-day total of 6-under-par-210. He was three shots better than Chad Fribley and David Ishii.

Eubank, president of Tour Golf, Inc., helps sponsor the Open, whose title sponsors are Prince Resorts Hawai'i and TaylorMade. His company creates scorecards and 3-D yardage books for Hawai'i courses.

Eubank gladly gives up his age as 47, or "another year closer to the senior tour." That made his win a stark contrast to what occurred in other flights.

Cyd Okino, 16 days from her 13th birthday, became the youngest female champion in tournament history. She closed a dominant performance with a 1-over-par 74. Her 220 total was 10 better than Kristina Merkle, who won this year's Jennie K. at age 14. Wailuku's Kyung Kim, another 12-year-old, was third.

Okino is two months younger than Michelle Wie was when she won, along with Eubank, in 2002. Wie also won with a double-digit advantage. Her 8-under 208 still stands as the women's record.

Even the senior champion pushed the youth envelope. Leland Lindsay, who won by six shots over Ron Kia'aina and seven-time senior champ Dean Prince, turned 50 last month.

"It was an interesting place to be today, being out there on the leaderboard," said Lindsay, whose last win was the 2005 Aloha Section Pro-Pro with John Bascuk, his caddie yesterday. "It was new for me. It was exciting. I liked it."

Honoka'a High senior Sean Maekawa, the first-round leader, was low amateur, winning a match of cards with Kaimuki junior Chan Kim. Both finished at 73-214, tied for fourth overall.

Punahou freshman Bradley Shigezawa shared low-round honors with Kevin Hayashi, who clinched the Aloha Section PGA Player of the Year award this weekend. Both closed with 68s.

Shigezawa and Okino work with pro Casey Nakama, who was happy to lose to both students yesterday. Okino left little doubt when she birdied three of her first five holes. She three-putted just three times in three days and never let anyone close.

"I just wanted to keep it going today and don't concentrate on what anyone else was doing," Okino said. "It was the first time I had a pretty good round for three days."

Nakama called it her most important win since she captured the State Women's Match Play Championship last year. He made a significant swing change in her game two months ago and, combined with her growing maturity, anticipated something like this, but not so soon."After that we just started working all on short-game stuff," Nakama said. "Because she's so young she doesn't usually shoot these kinds of rounds. These are her first three really good rounds of golf."

Eubank takes his wins as they come. He was the first golfer not from Hawai'i to win four years ago. That was his first win since 1993, and first tournament in Hawai'i since he played the 1990 Hawaiian Open while he was on the PGA Tour.

Coincidentally, Ishii won that Hawaiian Open. Yesterday, a double bogey on his third hole basically cost him a shot at catching Eubank, whose closing surge started with bogey on his 14th hole (C5).

"I hit three really great shots, including a great putt, and still made bogey there," Eubank recalled. "At that point I said, 'You can either get ticked off or you can go out and take it.' The next hole I played with a lot of confidence and went birdie, par, birdie, birdie."

NOTES

Chad Fribley, a former Kapalua pro from Oregon, also finished second to Tom Eubank in 2002.

David Ishii leaves next week for the final stages of qualifying for Japan's regular tour. His 1990 Hawaiian Open victory also allows him to play in Monday qualifiers for the Champions Tour.

Phil Anamizu (78-233) won low amateur honors in the senior flight.

Reach Ann Miller at amiller@honoluluadvertiser.com.