{"id":234654,"date":"2026-05-19T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=234654"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:16:50","slug":"watanabe-big-west-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/19\/watanabe-big-west-honorable-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior golfer Watanabe earns All-Big West Honorable Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-golf-watanabe-bw-honorable-mention.jpg\" alt=\"graphic of a person swinging a golf club\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-234655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-golf-watanabe-bw-honorable-mention.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-golf-watanabe-bw-honorable-mention-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-golf-watanabe-bw-honorable-mention-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=mgolf\">University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at <span lang=\"haw\">M&#257;noa<\/span> men\u2019s golfer<\/a> Dane Watanabe received honorable mention honors on the Big West\u2019s All-Conference team.<\/p>\n<p>The junior from <span lang=\"haw\">K&#257;ne&#699;ohe<\/span> led the team with a 72.97 scoring average and wrapped up the season with a career-low 5-under 211 at the Big West Championship, where he finished in sixth place. During the championship, Watanabe carded a career-low round of 7-under 65 in the second round. Throughout the season, Watanabe shot nine rounds of par or better and posted two top 10 finishes.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked the fourth consecutive year a Rainbow Warrior was named to the all-conference team along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/06\/josh-hayashida-earns-conference-honors\/\">Josh Hayashida<\/a> (honorable mention) last season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/07\/akana-all-big-west-honor\/\">Blaze Akana<\/a> (first team) in 2023&#8211;24 and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/5\/12\/mens-golf-oishi-named-all-big-west-honorable-mention.aspx\">Atsuya Oishi<\/a> (honorable mention) in 2022&#8211;23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dane Watanabe led the team with a 72.97 scoring average and wrapped up the season with a career-low 5-under 211 at the Big West Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":234655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1537,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-234654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-golf-watanabe-bw-honorable-mention.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234658,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234654\/revisions\/234658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}