Amatour Hawai'i's last tournament of 2007 tees off Saturday at Kapolei Golf Course. The Amatour Tour Championship is the second major of the year, with double points awarded.

Eric Sonnenberg is the points leader through the first five events. Sonnenberg won the last tournament, the Olomana Shootout, by nine shots. He has accumulated 1,215 points in the first five events and leads the Player of the Year race by 120 points over Christian Akau, winner of the 'Ewa Beach Championship in July. Mike Kawate is 242 points behind Sonnenberg.

A win in the final event is worth 500 points. First prize is $500 in Kapolei merchandise certificates.

The 24 players with the most points after Sunday's final round will be automatically accepted into the 2008 Amatour season.

CHAMPS TO DEFEND TITLE

Kellan Anderson and Troy Higashiyama shattered the tournament record at last year's Bridgestone Sports Pro-Scratch Championship. They shot 58-63 at Pearl Country Club and their 23-under-par total gave them the title they will defend beginning Monday at the seventh annual event.

Tournament format is two-person team — one professional and one amateur. It is open to all Aloha Section PGA members, apprentices, ATPs and LPGA members. All amateurs play to a scratch handicap. The first round starts at 11:10 a.m. in a two-person scramble format. The second begins at 6:44 a.m. and is Best Ball of Two.

Professionals will be playing for a $9,000 purse, with amateurs awarded $3,000 in merchandise certificates and prizes, along with other contest prizes provided by the sponsor.

The tournament is sold out with 40 teams. Those include brothers Norman-Ganin and Kellen-Floyd Asao, cousins Regan Lee and Brandan Kop, Joe Phengsavath and Mark Chun, Lance Taketa and Jonathan Ota, former champions Kevin Hayashi and Elton Tanaka, John Hearn and Wendell Tom, and tournament sponsor Del-Marc Fujita and Casey Nakama.

AOKI WINS IN JAPAN

Former Hawaiian Open champion Isao Aoki shot his age Sunday to erase a six-shot deficit and win his fifth Japan Senior Open. Aoki won four in a row from 1994-97.

Aoki, who regularly plays on the Champions Tour, shot a 7-under-par 65 to beat Kiyoshi Murota by a shot. Aoki's four-day total was 12-under 276. Murota is a former winner of the Hawai'i Pearl Open.

Hawai'i's David Ishii finished 17th at 1-under. Ishii is in the Top 10 on the Japan Senior Tour Order of Merit with one event remaining and will be exempt for all events next year.

The tournament was played at Kumamoto Chuo Country Club in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Aoki became the first Japanese winner on the PGA Tour when he captured the Hawaiian Open in 1983. He has now won 77 titles in Japan and overseas.