'AIEA — At 14, Lorens Chan has years to smash golf records. Apparently, he's in a rush.

The 'Iolani School freshman got a rather remarkable one yesterday, winning the Hawai'i State Amateur Stroke Play Championship by eight shots with a 10-under-par 206 at Pearl Country Club. It is the lowest score since the tournament moved to Pearl in 1987 and it took Chan only three days to do it; Saturday's third round was washed out.

Chan Kim (2007) and Damien Jamila (1998) both won at Pearl with a score of 9-under, but that was at 279 over four days. The tournament began in 1928 at Waialae Country Club and for all the years it was played there the late Chris Santangelo, who worked at Waialae, was the only other champion to dip into double figures under par. He won the 1983 title at 13-under 275.

Not that Chan's precociousness surprises anyone anymore. He earned the lone amateur slot for this year's Sony Open in Hawai'i and a UCLA assistant coach showed up to watch him. Chan's resume is longer than he is, and he's sprouted up to 5 feet 7 the past year: Low amateur at last year's Hawai'i State Open (fourth overall), Barbers Point champ, Manoa Cup semifinals, Hickam Invitational runner-up, four-time state junior champ.

Still, his dominance yesterday over a fairly good field was a little frightening.

"I really like how I played this tournament," Chan said. "I don't think anything can beat playing in the Sony Open, but this probably ranks in the top three."

Even Chan, as humble as his new coach, David Ishii, sounded in awe: "Overall, for three days, it was really good," he said. "I putted pretty good. My drives were actually really good until the end of today. I felt like my ball-striking was pretty good. Today it felt like I had a little slowish start, but I played a lot better on the back nine, except for those weird drives."

Chan teed off with two former Manoa Cup champions in the final group. He held a one-shot lead over Ryan Perez and was three up on Jonathan Ota. Perez's opening drive rolled out of bounds and he double-bogeyed the first hole while Ota was three-putting. Both were 3-over after four holes and Chan appeared to just shift into auto-pilot and zero in on the record.

"Both Ryan and I started terribly," said Ota, general manager at Kaua'i's Tip Top Cafe. "He stretched his lead to six or seven already. He was just free-wheeling it after that and we were playing for second."

Chan walked in a 14-footer for birdie on the ninth to play the front nine in even par, then drained four birdie putts from inside 7 feet on the back, closing with a 3-under 69. Only University of Hawai'i junior Robert Berton (68) was better.

Chan's second-round 66 took care of everything else, but he ran away yesterday because he expected somebody to come at him and was convinced 10-under was a safe score. He got there on the par-5 17th after driving into the trees on the right, blasting to the left rough and hitting his approach to 2 feet.

The freshman was fabulous on Pearl's par-5s, playing them in 12-under for the tournament; he birdied every one every day but the first hole, which he eagled Thursday and parred yesterday.

Ota (74—214) seized second when he finally got a birdie putt to fall, also on the 17th, raising his arms in mock triumph. Perez (76—215) never did get a putt to drop and took third, even with 2008 champion Travis Toyama — his former Rainbow teammate — as his caddie. Japan's Kazuo Sato (73—216) was next, followed by Berton.

Ota won the 2007 Manoa Cup — symbolic of the state amateur match-play championship — at age 45. He was second to Alex Ching, now a University of San Diego freshman, last year. He has proved he can grind it out with Hawai'i's new generation of golf phenoms, but he didn't make a dent in Chan's dominance yesterday.

"His wedge game is so ... he was playing really good," Ota said, unable to describe the destruction Chan left behind. "His putting is good. He's confident.

"The irons are solid. It's really nice to watch."

But not easy to catch.