The Ho’olaule’a Hawaii Golf Award Ceremony will be held on February 7, 2026, at the Japanese Cultural Center in Moilili.
The event celebrates the champions and award winners in Hawaii golf from the PGA of America – Aloha Section, the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame, Hawaii State Golf Association, The First Tee of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Junior Golf Association, and Golf Courses Superintendents of Hawaii. The event is open to the public and ticket sales will open on December 1, 2025.
This year, the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame will honor Damien Jamila as the 78th inductee. For more information, contact the Aloha Section PGA Office (808) 593-2230
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2025 Hall of Fame HonoreeHONOLULU – HAWAII —
Damien Jamila’s competitive golf highlights began with him beating adults at the age of 11 and then a bunch of juniors, including a guy named Mickelson — twice.
His sizzling surge in the 1990’s made him the Hawaii Golf Hall of Fame’s 79th member.
Jamila will be inducted Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Japanese Cultural Center in Moiliili. His induction is part of the annual Ho`olaule`a Hawaii Golf Award Ceremony, also celebrating champions and award winners from Aloha Section PGA, Hawaii State Golf Association, First Tee of Hawaii, Hawaii State Junior Golf Association and Golf Course Superintendents of Hawaii.
In 1992, Jamila became the first amateur to win the Hawaii Pearl Open — Tadd Fujikawa was the only other. Jamila also earned NCAA All-America honorable mention honors that year, after winning the Fresno Lexus Classic.
Jamila captured four Hawaii State Amateur Stroke Play championships (1990, ’91, ’92 and ’98), matching only Hall of Famer Allan Yamamoto’s rare achievement. Jamila is still the only golfer to win three straight Stroke Play titles.
He added a pair of OCC Invitational titles (1995 and ’97), won the Navy-Marine and Barbers Point Invitationals in 1991, his second Army Invitational in 1995 and the 1998 Hickam Invitational. One of his fondest golf memories came at the 1995 U.S. Amateur Championship, where he beat ultimate champion Tiger Woods by a shot in the second round of stroke play qualifying.
Other great golf memories go back much farther, starting with “spending countless hours practicing with my dad at Olomana Golf Links.” He used to follow father Andrew when he played at Ala Wai.
Damien’s competitive fire was unleashed when he joined Olomana’s junior golf program, led by Lloyd Nakama and Hall of Famer Tura Nagatoshi. Jamila won the 11-12 age division of the 1982 Junior World Championship in San Diego, with local boy Phil Mickelson finishing fourth.
Jamila also captured the Optimist Junior Golf Championship in Florida that year and was runner-up in the Westfield Junior PGA Championship in Ohio in 1986, with Mickelson third.
In 1981, 11-year-old Damien beat out the adults to capture A Flight at the Maui Open. The 1993 University of Hawaii graduate would go on to win two ILH championships for St. Louis, where he also taught and coached.
These days, Jamila is a member at Moanalua Golf Club and still plays amateur events.
For more information on the Ho`olaule`a, contact the Aloha Section PGA Office at 808-593-2230