Tech Golf in 8th Place at Amer Ari Intercollegiate – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Kohala Coast, Hawai’i – Bartley Forrester (67), Hiroshi Tai (68) and Christo Lamprecht (69) all fired subpar rounds Thursday, leading No. 12 Georgia Tech to a 12-under-par score of 276, good to tie for eighth place after the opening round of the Amer Ari Intercollegiate.

Low scores were the order of the day at the Mauna Lani Resort’s North Course, which plays to par of 72 and measures just 6,913 yards. Seventeen of the 20 competing teams broke par, with No. 2 North Carolina leading the way at 26-under-par with all five players in red figures. Seventy-five of the 124 players in the field were under par for the day.

Forrester’s score put him in a tie for 12^th place, while Tai is tied for 22^nd, and Lamprecht is tied for 37^th.

The tournament continues with another shotgun start for round 2 Friday at 7:30 a.m. local time (12:30 p.m. Eastern time).

TECH LINEUP – Forrester, a senior from Gainesville, Ga., played a clean round with five birdies and no bogeys Thursday to share 12^th place with nine other players. Tai, a sophomore from Singapore, birdied three of his first five holes and got to 5-under-par for the day before making consecutive bogeys, but he finished with a birdie at the 10^th for his 68, putting him in a tie for 22^nd with 14 others. Lamprecht, a senior from George, South Africa, had five birdies and two bogeys on his card, thing for 37^th place with 11 others.

Freshman Carson Kim (Yorba Linda Calif.) provided the Yellow Jackets’ fourth counting score with an even-par 72, while freshman Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) shot 1-over-par 73 and did not count.

Senior Aidan Kramer (Oviedo, Fla.) fired a 2-under-par 70 competing as an individual and is tied for 49^th place.

Hiroshi Tai carded a 4-under-par 68 Thursday. (photo by Spencer Honda)

TEAM LEADERBOARD – North Carolina led the field with five players under par, posting a 26-under-par total of 262, with No. 7 Arizona State three shots back at 265 (-23) and No. 22 Texas Tech in third place at 267 (-21).

Oklahoma State (-18), top-ranked Auburn (-16), No. 12 Florida State (-15) and Pepperdine (-14) are also ahead of the Yellow Jackets and No. 4 Washington (both at -12).

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – Preston Stout of Oklahoma State took the opening-round lead with a 10-under-par 62 that included an eagle and eight birdies. He has a one-shot lead over Wenyi Ding of Arizona State and Matthew Comegys of Texas Tech, each of whom shot 63.

David Ford of North Carolina is alone in fourth place…