No. 4 Pepperdine men’s golf team is in eighth place after two rounds at the Amer Ari Invitational held at Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club on the Kohala Coast, Hawaii.
Pepperdine posted a team score of 12-under par during Friday’s second round, which was the seventh-best among the 20 teams competing. Auburn leads the tournament with a combined score of 47-under par after two rounds.
Mahanth Chirravuri remains in the top five individually, shooting a 70 (-2) and holding a total of 13-under par over 36 holes. Brady Siravo led Pepperdine on Friday with a round of 67 (-5), moving into the top-20 individually at eight under par for two days. Willy Walsh recorded a 68 (-4).
Siravo began his day with a birdie on hole ten but followed it with bogeys on holes eleven and twelve. He then recovered by making three consecutive birdies from holes fifteen to seventeen, turning at two under par after shooting a back nine score of 34. On the front nine, he added four more birdies—on holes two, three, six, and seven—with one bogey on hole five before finishing his round with pars on eight and nine for his five-under score. Siravo stands tied for nineteenth place individually.
Walsh started his round at hole eleven and opened with par-birdie-bogey before making back-to-back birdies on fifteen and sixteen to reach two under for the day. After another bogey on seventeen, he made three additional birdies on holes two, seven, and ten to finish at four under for the round. Walsh is tied for twenty-seventh overall at seven under par.
Chirravuri started strong with a birdie but went four over across his next two holes to sit three over early in his round. He recovered by making three straight birdies to return to even par before carding another bogey on hole five. He answered that setback by making an eagle—the first of his season—on the seventh hole and added another birdie to end his day at two under par.
Luke Dariotis shot one under (71) and is one under overall through two rounds in seventieth place individually. Byungho Lee also carded a one-under-par round (71), placing him eighty-third overall at one over for the tournament.
Competing as an individual, Luke Bailey shot four under (68) in Friday’s round and is now tied for thirty-third overall at six under through forty-eight holes.
The Waves will begin their final round Saturday morning starting from holes eight through ten alongside Georgia Tech, Osaka Gakuin, and San Jose State.
Pepperdine men’s golf has established itself as one of college golf’s leading programs; it won NCAA Championships in both 1997 and 2021 while collecting twenty-three WCC championships since its inception. The program has appeared in twenty-eight NCAA Regionals and fourteen NCAA Championships events while producing thirty All-Americans; as of this year there are four active members from Pepperdine playing on the PGA TOUR.
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