As feel-good words go, you can't beat "aloha."

It's a word with so many meanings, including welcome and farewell. Appropriately, there's a lot of aloha to bestow this week:

The first goes to Peter Suemori, who's retiring as director and general manager of the Hawai'i Kai Golf Course after 18 years.

To show that his aloha really doesn't only mean good-bye, Suemori will continue as director of Atsugi Kokusai Kanko (Hawai'i) Inc., which owns the golf course. He also will be in charge of a new women's amateur golf tournament called the Wahine O Hawai'i Kai Open, Dec. 3 and 4.

The inaugural event is his pet project, finally coming to fruition after nearly a year of discussion about its feasibility.

Suemori was well aware that Hawai'i Kai had never hosted a golf tournament after being the original site of the Gov. John Burns Challenge Cup more than 20 years ago when Ron Castillo Sr. was the head golf professional there.

"We talked about if it should be for men or seniors, but decided a women's tournament would be better. Besides, there's nothing happening for the women in November and December," Suemori said. "That's how it got started."

Word of the new event delighted Hawai'i State Women's Golf Association officials. Applications will be available shortly. But some details are set for the 36-hole tournament: Entry fee will be $120 and there will be five flights, including championship.

"It comes at a perfect time for us. We've never had a tournament in December," said HSWGA's Kathy Ordway. "Our goal is to get the players out there and I think we can."

Suemori knows that the weather might be iffy at that time of the year, but adds, "If it's raining in Hawai'i Kai, it's raining everywhere."

"We're looking forward to it and hope it will be successful in getting more sponsors, so that it can continue," said Suemori. "Mid-Pac has the Jennie K., Waialae the women's invitational and Olomana (has) Pua Melia. We'd like Hawai'i Kai to have a women's tournament, too."

ALOHA, DOUG LOGAN

A welcoming aloha goes to Douglas Logan, new executive director of the Aloha Section PGA, succeeding Paul Sugimoto.

Logan comes here after more than 20 years in the Far East, in particular Japan and Thailand. He helped to form the Ladies Asian Tour, which is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Logan, 49, said it was time for a career move because he and his wife, Wasana, wanted their 5-year-old son, Zachary, to go to school in the U.S.

He saw notice of the job opening on the International Association of Golf Administrators Web site. He was one of three finalists before being selected executive director of the 190-member Aloha PGA Section.

Logan officially started last week but hardly has had time to settle in. He leaves next week for Florida to attend a PGA of America orientation briefing sectional executive directors. Next month he and Matt Hall, Aloha Section PGA president, will meet section members on Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island.

It's too soon to state any ideas about his goals, Logan said. "But I got a feel for a couple of broad-brush things."

Among them is improving the purse for the 14 tournaments that the section runs and seeing that the Aloha Section PGA Foundation becomes a bigger player in local charities.

Yes, he golfs and is good at it, playing to a 4-handicap. Not bad for someone who didn't take up the game until he was in his 30s.

"I started playing a lot of golf because it was good for business," said Logan, a former Wall Street banker before he went to Japan.

ALOHA, MARTY KEITER

We said aloha, as in good-bye, to golf pro Marty Keiter in March when he resigned after 21 years at the Kapalua Resort and moved to Montana.

Well, he's back. So aloha, as in welcome home.

Marty's father, veteran sportscaster Les Keiter, remembers University of Hawai'i football coach June Jones telling him when his son left, "He'll be back in three months."

Jones recently saw "The General" and said, "I told you so."

"I'm back, but I'm kind of in limbo right now," said Keiter, who returned to Maui because he's trying to sell his Napili home.

"I realized I wanted to stay in Hawai'i," said Keiter, who has interviewed for openings at golf courses on Kaua'i and the Big Island. He expects to know how it'll turn out in a week or two. He hadn't been looking forward to a Montana winter anyway.

Son Chris is an assistant pro at Nanea on the Kona Coast and daughter Erica lives in Montana.

Bill Kwon can be reached at bkwon@aloha.net.