HAWAII NIGHTMARE FINISH FOR JAMES BYRNE

James Byrne had a nightmare round of eight over par 80 to round off his first US college circuit tournament of the year - the Amer Ari Invitational over the Waikoloa Kings Course on Hawaii.

The Arizona State University final-year student from Banchory had earlier had rounds of 74 and 70 over the 7074yd, par-72 course.

In his first round, the World's No 18 amateur had one double bogey. In his second round he had one triple bogey.
In his final round, Byrne chalked up one triple bogey and three double bogeys.
Starting at the sixth hole, he double bogeyed the sixth, triple-bogeyed the short seventh, bogeyed the ninth, birdied the short 11th, double-bogeyed the 13th, birdied the second and double-bogeyed the long fourth. His halves were 43-37.
Three players tied at the top on 13-under-par 203 - Daniel Miernicki (Oregon) (62-69-72), Patrick Cantlay (UCLA) (74-64-65) and Bobby Hudson (Texas) (69-67-67).
Miernicki won the three-man play-off at the seventh extra hole. He is not a candidate for a place in the US Walker Cup team for Royal Aberdeen in September (he will be, if he keeps this up), being ranked No 91 in the Golfweek/Sagarin college ratings.

The trio had finished a shot ahead of Tyler Weworski (Texas Tech) (70-65-69) with Kevin Tway (Oklahoma State) third on 205 (67-66-72).

Oklahoma State (830) won the team title ahead of Texas (835) with UCLA (836) third and Georgia Tech (844) fourth. Arizona State tied for seventh place in the field of 20 teams with a total of 850.

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