OKINAWA (Japan), Dec 20: American Ted Purdy pitched in for an eagle-two on his way to a seven-under-par 65 and a one-shot lead in the Okinawa Open after the weather-disrupted first round was completed on Friday.

The 29-year-old, who narrowly failed to secure his U.S. Tour card at the final stage of qualifying two weeks ago, holed out with a sandwedge from 91 yards on the par-four 18th before finishing a stroke clear of Japan’s Tomohiro Kondo.

First round scores

65 Ted Purdy

66 Tomohiro Kondo

67 Hiroyuki Fujita, Kiyoshi Miyazato, Lin Keng-chi, Greg Hanrahan

68 Tetsuji Hiratsuka, a-Yusaku Miyazato, Masashi Ozaki

69 Satoshi Higashi, Zhang Lian-Wei, Gerry Norquist, Taichi Teshima, Jyoti Randhawa, Unho Park, Yui Ueda, Hideki Kase, Takenori Hiraishi, Danny Chia, Wang Ter-chang, Olle Nordberg, Saburo Fujika, Jun Kikuchi, Jun Tae-hyun, Daisuke Maruyama, Michael Wright.—Reuters