JAMES BYRNE STRUGGLES IN FIRST US COLLEGE EVENT OF 2011
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Walker Cup team candidate James Byrne did not make a good start to the second half of the United States college golf season on Hawaii today.
Starting the Amer Ari Invitational at the 15th hole - it's a shotgun start to get a field of 114 players round the Waikoloa King's Course - Byrne double bogeyed that short hole, then dropped shots at the 16th and 17th: four over par after three holes.
He did birdie the long 18th but that did not stop the rot. He bogeyed the short third and the long fourth to slump to five over par.
Then came a run more like the man who reached the final of the British amateur championship at Muirfield last year and is ranked among the world's top 20 amateurs.
Byrne birdied the fifth, short seventh and ninth to cover holes 1 to 9 in one-under-par 35. Then he parred the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th to finish on two-over-par 74.
Oregon University's Daniel Miernicki showed that the course, some 7,074yd long, could be tamed into submission with a magnificent round of 10-under-par 62, which gave him a six-shot lead at the end of the day from Matt Hovan (San Jose State) and two Southern California students, Jeffrey Kang and Sam Smith.
James Byrne ended the day in joint 76th place.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Walker Cup team candidate James Byrne did not make a good start to the second half of the United States college golf season on Hawaii today.
Starting the Amer Ari Invitational at the 15th hole - it's a shotgun start to get a field of 114 players round the Waikoloa King's Course - Byrne double bogeyed that short hole, then dropped shots at the 16th and 17th: four over par after three holes.
He did birdie the long 18th but that did not stop the rot. He bogeyed the short third and the long fourth to slump to five over par.
Then came a run more like the man who reached the final of the British amateur championship at Muirfield last year and is ranked among the world's top 20 amateurs.
Byrne birdied the fifth, short seventh and ninth to cover holes 1 to 9 in one-under-par 35. Then he parred the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th to finish on two-over-par 74.
Oregon University's Daniel Miernicki showed that the course, some 7,074yd long, could be tamed into submission with a magnificent round of 10-under-par 62, which gave him a six-shot lead at the end of the day from Matt Hovan (San Jose State) and two Southern California students, Jeffrey Kang and Sam Smith.
James Byrne ended the day in joint 76th place.
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