Defending champion Andrew Von Lossow is hanging out at the top of the Rosauers Open Invitational leaderboard again.
The Spokane amateur shared the first-round lead after a 7-under-par 64 Friday at Indiana Canyon Golf Course. Jamie Hall, Shane Prante and Darren Black matched Von Lossow’s 64, one stroke ahead of 2017 Rosauers champion Brady Sharp.
Von Lossow carded eight birdies, including all three par 5s and three of the four par 3s. His lone bogey came on the 403-yard par-4 fifth. He won the 37th annual Rosauers Open by one shot last July. He tees off at 12:57 p.m. Saturday in the second round and the 54-hole event concludes Sunday.
Hall, who last month won the Oregon Open, the PGA Pacific Northwest Section’s most recent major, and Prante, frequently in contention at section events, both posted bogey-free rounds with seven birdies.
Hall, an instructor at the Pacific Northwest Golf Academy in Issaquah, Washington, played at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Seattle University. Prante is a teaching pro at the Home Course in DuPont, Washington.
Seattle Topgolf’s Black had six birdies, one eagle and one bogey.
Sharp, assistant pro at Oswego Lake Country Club in Lake Oswego, Oregon, took the early lead with a 5-under 30 on the front nine before shooting 35 on the back side.
Charles Lee, who had eight birdies, and amateur Ethan Klose, who had a pair of eagles, shot 5-under 66s, two shots behind the quartet of leaders.
Six players shot 4-under 67, including 2023 champion Conner Robbins, 2021 champ Colin Inglis and area prep standouts Ryan Howe (Cheney High) and Teigen Brill (North Central).
Howe, a rising junior, registered an ace on the par-3 eighth. Brill, a Seattle University commit, birdied three of the first four holes on the back side to reach 5 under.
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