Jackets Get to -25 at Amer Ari Intercollegiate – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Kohala Coast, Hawai’i – Led by Hiroshi Tai’s 6-under-par 66, all five Georgia Tech players scored under par Friday as the 12^th-ranked Yellow Jackets shot a 15-under-par total of 273 and sit in a tie for 10^th place with Stanford after 36 holes at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate.

Tai, the defending NCAA individual champion from Singapore, played a clean round on the Mauna Lani Resort’s North Course, recording six birdies and no bogeys, improving by six shots over his opening round and moving up to a tie for 33^rd place individually at 6-under-par 138. Though Tech improved its score by five strokes over Thursday’s opening round, it was unable to make up much ground on the leaders and remains 18 strokes behind No. 9 Oklahoma State heading into Saturday’s final round.

Twenty teams are competing over three days (Thursday through Saturday) at the Mauna Lani Resort’s North Course in the 34^th edition of the event, which has attracted an increasingly strong field over the years. This year’s field features nine teams nationally ranked in the Top 25, including six of the Top 10, all of whom reside ahead of the Jackets on the leaderboard.

Round 3 begins at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Saturday with a shotgun start.

Benjamin Reuter is tied for 20th place at -7. (photo by Clyde Click)

TECH LINEUP – Benjamin Reuter, a redshirt junior from The Netherlands, shot 4-under-par 68 Friday and moved up to 20^th place individually at 7-under-par 137, while sophomore Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) shot 3-under-par 69. Freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebäckskil, Sweden) and sophomore Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) each carded 2-under-par 70s for the Jackets.

Hansson remains low Yellow Jacket after 36 holes, tied for 16^th place at 8-under-par 136, while Fontenot is tied for 53^rd at 3-under-par 141, and Kim is tied for 83^rd place (145, +1).

Freshman Didrik Ringvall Bengtsson (Stockholm, Sweden), competing as an individual, shot 77 Friday and is tied for 112^th place.

TEAM LEADERBOARD – Oklahoma State didn’t duplicate its 26-under-par round from Thursday, but its 17-par score of 271 was good enough to keep the Cowboys (533, -43) in the lead, two shots ahead of No. 6 North Carolina, who had the best round of the day at 21-under-oar 267 and moved up to second place at 535 (-41).

No. 38 Oregon (-36), No. 5 Texas (-35) and No. 2 Arizona State (-31) round out the top five teams on the 20-team leaderboard.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – North Carolina’s Hampton Roberts burned…