Aztecs Lead after First Round of Western Intercollegiate – San Diego State Aztecs

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Justin Hastings (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Harry Takis (Brisbane, Australia) each fired 4-under 66s to help the San Diego State men’s golf team take a seven-stroke lead on the first day of the Western Intercollegiate Monday on the par-70, 6,486-yard Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California.Hastings and Takis are in third place, one shot behind co-leaders Filip Jakubcik (Arizona) and Taiga Kobayshi (Nihon Univ.), and the Aztecs have five players in the top 20 of the six-count-five-event.SDSU, which is 18th in the latest NCAA Scoreboard computer rankings, shot a 12-under-par 338, seven strokes ahead of a three-way tie for third between No. 21 Arizona, No. 42 Stanford and Nihon Univ. at -5. No. 34 UNLV is fifth at -4.Hastings, who missed the cut at the Masters in his first major over the weekend but still had the lowest score among amateurs at +4, came up with five birdies and one bogey for his 66 today. Takis, meanwhile, had seven birdies and three bogeys for his matching 66.Junior Chanachon Chokprajakchat (Bangkok, Thailand) is tied for seventh at 3-under 67, which included three birdies and no bogeys.Sophomore Dylan Oyama (Carlsbad, California) is tied for 15th at
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