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Oregon’s Daniel Miernicki set a Waikoloa Kings’ Course record to take a four-stroke lead in the 21st Annual Amer Ari Invitataional.

The University of Oregon senior turned in a bogey-free round recording eight birdies and an eagle for a round which bested the previous course record by two strokes and tied the tournament record.

“There wasn’t a lot of wind,” said Miernicki. “I didn’t drive it well but my irons were great. I made a lot of putts early and then my finish was as good as I’ve played.

“The greens were a challenge with the grain of the Bermuda grass. We usually don’t play on that.”

Starting on the fourth hole, Miernicki was four under after the first 13 holes before firing closing out the round with three consecutive birdies, an eagle on the par-5 second and a birdie on the par-3 third.

“It’s just one round and we’ve got two more to go,” said Miernicki.

Tied in second place at 6-under-par 66 are San Jose State’s Matt Hovan and USC’s Jeffrey Kang and Sam Smith. There is a 4-way tie for fifth place at 5-under-par 67.

USC leads the tournament with a 17-under-par 271. Tied in second at 10-under-par are Georgia Tech and Oklahoma State followed by Arizona State (279), Oregon (281), Texas (282), Oregon State, Texas Tech and UC Davis (284), UCLA and Colorado (285), TCU and San Jose State (287), Washington (288), San Francisco, Hawaii Hilo and Florida State (290), Hawaii Manoa (292), Stanford (293) and Western Washington (294).

Leading the Vulcans is Nick Matsushima (T31, 71) followed by Neil Cabico (T42, 72)), Travis Russell (T65, 73), Blake Snyder (T76, 74) and Christian Agosto (T110, 79).

The second round begins tomorrow with a 7:30 a.m. start on the Kings’ Course.

NOTE: Miernicki’s 10-under 62 ties the tournament records  of four other players when the tournament was held on either the Waikoloa Village Course or Mauna Lani Resort’s North Course.

Start / Finish / Player / Team / Scores
– 1 Daniel Miernicki Oregon 62 -10
– T2 Matt Hovan San Jose State Univ. 66 -6
– T2 Sam Smith * Southern California 66 -6
– T2 Jeffrey Kang Southern California 66 -6
– T5 Martin Trainer Southern California 67 -5
– T5 Jesper Kennegard Arizona State 67 -5
– T5 Kevin Tway Oklahoma State 67 -5
– T5 J.T. Griffin Georgia Tech 67 -5
– 9 Ramsey Sahyoun Southern California 68 -4
– T10 Pontus Widegren UCLA 69 -3
– T10 Chris Williams Washington 69 -3
– T10 Phil Francis Arizona State 69 -3
– T10 Richy Werenski Georgia Tech 69 -3
– T10 Bobby Hudson Texas 69 -3
– T10 Drew Page Oklahoma State 69 -3
– T10 Cody Gribble Texas 69 -3
– T10 Jonnie Motomochi Oregon State U. 69 -3
– T10 Johnny Widmer Colorado 69 -3
– T10 Johan de Beer TCU 69 -3
– T10 Thomas Kua Hawaii 69 -3
– T21 Steve Lim Southern California 70 -2
– T21 Kyle Scott Georgia Tech 70 -2
– T21 Jack Dukeminier * Oregon 70 -2
– T21 Austin Graham UC Davis 70 -2
– T21 Scott Pinckney * Arizona State 70 -2
– T21 Dylan Frittelli Texas 70 -2
– T21 Tyler Raber UC Davis 70 -2
– T21 Nainoa Calip Hawaii 70 -2
– T21 Kevin Dougherty Oklahoma State 70 -2
– T21 Tyler Weworski Texas Tech 70 -2
– T31 Oscar Zetterwall Arizona State 71 -1
– T31 Nick Matsushima Hawaii-Hilo 71 -1
– T31 Alex Moore Oregon State U. 71 -1
– T31 Nils Floren Texas Tech 71 -1
– T31 Mark Hubbard San Jose State Univ. 71 -1
– T31 Drew Kittleson Florida State 71 -1
– T31 Luke Symons Colorado 71 -1
– T31 Matt Smith Texas Tech 71 -1
– T31 Nick Varelia Western Washington U 71 -1
– T31 Gregor Main UCLA 71 -1
– T31 Robbie Ziegler Oregon 71 -1
– T42 James White Georgia Tech 72 E
– T42 Andrew Haggen UC Davis 72 E
– T42 Ty Chambers Washington 72 E
– T42 Neil Cabico Hawaii-Hilo 72 E
– T42 Paul Haley Georgia Tech 72 E
– T42 Scott Roudebush * TCU 72 E
– T42 David Chung Stanford 72 E
– T42 Sean Maekawa Oregon 72 E
– T42 Brian Scherer * Texas Tech 72 E
– T42 Mat Miller San Francisco, U. of 72 E
– T42 Ji Hwan Park San Francisco, U. of 72 E
– T42 Chandler Rusk Texas Tech 72 E
– T42 Thomas Buran Arizona State 72 E
– T42 David Fink Oregon State U. 72 E
– T42 Nick Sherwood Oregon State U. 72 E
– T42 Pontus Gad TCU 72 E
– T42 Derek Fribbs Colorado 72 E
– T42 Charlie Hughes Washington 72 E
– T42 T.J. Vogel Southern California 72 E
– T42 Taylor Travis San Francisco, U. of 72 E
– T42 Anton Arboleda UCLA 72 E
– T42 Talor Gooch Oklahoma State 72 E
– T42 Matt Seramin UC Davis 72 E
– T65 Travis Russell Hawaii-Hilo 73 +1
– T65 Mario Clemens UCLA 73 +1
– T65 Johnny Antle TCU 73 +1
– T65 Bjorn Hellgren Florida State 73 +1
– T65 Brooks Koepka Florida State 73 +1
– T65 Tom Hoge TCU 73 +1
– T65 Graham Brockington Stanford 73 +1
– T65 Joaquin Lolas Florida State 73 +1
– T65 Eli Cole TCU 73 +1
– T65 Kevin Kring Colorado 73 +1
– T65 Morgan Hoffmann Oklahoma State 73 +1
– T76 Andrew Vijarro * Oregon 74 +2
– T76 Adam Wennerstrom * Texas 74 +2
– T76 Sandy Vaughan Western Washington U 74 +2
– T76 Xavier Dailly Western Washington U 74 +2
– T76 Julio Vegas Texas 74 +2
– T76 Steve Ziegler Stanford 74 +2
– T76 James Byrne Arizona State 74 +2
– T76 Cameron Wilson Stanford 74 +2
– T76 James Back San Francisco, U. of 74 +2
– T76 Jeff Petroff Oregon State U. 74 +2
– T76 Patrick Cantlay UCLA 74 +2
– T76 Blake Snyder Hawaii-Hilo 74 +2
– T88 Chris Shimomura * Hawaii-Hilo 75 +3
– T88 Matt Hansen UC Davis 75 +3
– T88 Alika Bell San Francisco, U. of 75 +3
– T88 Dylan Goodwin Western Washington U 75 +3
– T88 David Saka Hawaii 75 +3
– T88 Daniel Jennevret * TCU 75 +3
– T88 Will Griffin Texas Tech 75 +3
– T88 Tze Huang Choo Washington 75 +3
– T88 Kevin Spooner Washington 75 +3
– T88 Ryan Collins San Jose State Univ. 75 +3
– T88 Andrew Yun Stanford 75 +3
– T88 Jay Myers San Jose State Univ. 75 +3
– T100 Eugene Wong Oregon 76 +4
– T100 Sam Ayotte Western Washington U 76 +4
– T100 Sebastian Heisele Colorado 76 +4
– T100 Corey Kozuma * Hawaii-Hilo 76 +4
– T104 Toni Hakula Texas 77 +5
– T104 William Miller * Georgia Tech 77 +5
– T104 Drew Nottenkamper San Jose State Univ. 77 +5
– T104 Michael Imperato * Colorado 77 +5
– T108 Isaiah Telles Oregon 78 +6
– T108 Cory Oride Hawaii 78 +6
– T110 Christian Agosto Hawaii-Hilo 79 +7
– T110 Ben Itterman * Oregon 79 +7
– 112 Wesley Graham Florida State 80 +8
– 113 Christopher Armanini * Hawaii-Hilo 81 +9
– 114 Kamden Brakel Hawaii 84 +12

Courtesy GOLFSTAT COLLEGIATE SCORING SYSTEM