The great games of golf and the football make for a great match for the University of Hawaii booster club.

The official football booster club for the University of Hawaii football team is called Na Koa, which translates to “The Warrior.” They put on several fundraisers but one of their most popular is the golf tournament.

Even the head football coach June Jones and athletic director Herman Frazier played golf in the most recent event on July 20th. There were many football players, parents and alumni in attendance. There were some great prizes too. A Harley Davidson motorcycle prize was up for grabs if someone was lucky enough to make a hole-in-one on the 13th hole. Plus there were autographed football jerseys, helmets and football tickets, too.

Even though co-founder of the booster club, Ben Yee, was at the latest tournament he didn’t play golf. The online newspaper The Garden Island quoted Yee as saying: “I’ve seen Na Koa evolve from raising $26,000 the first year to raising half a million dollars.”

Of course those funds didn’t come from just the one golf tournament! Actually, the golf tournaments are so popular that the booster club has three of them - one on Kaua‘i, O‘ahu and another on the Big Island. Plus they have other fundraisers throughout the year.

So does golf and football go together? It certainly does for this booster club.