Keanu Phillips shot 73 with six penalty strokes

LEADER -- Keanu Phillips (Antioch, CA)
Overall Score: 1-over 73

The Deer Valley High School senior his friends call "nu" was thinking of entering the championship division, but after playing on his high school's basketball time this winter, he felt like he needed a warmup. Playing in the first group, he suffered 6 penalty strokes due to lost balls plugging in the wet conditions but shrugged it off after the round.

"I could have scored lower, sure," he said. "But it was a pretty good tournament to get me back into the groove of competitive golf."

GIVING CHASE

Alex Park (Santa Clara, CA) and Ryan Takasugi of San Francisco carded 2-over 74's and look solid to make one of the top two flights next weekend. They were joined by Joey Fowler, who made the two hour trip from Ukiah with the hope of coming back every weekend until March 23 and 24 -- the big Championship Weekend at Harding Park, host of the 2020 PGA Championship (and this tournament for over 100 years).

Ryan Wilson of San Francisco shot 75 to nail down fifth place of the first wave.

WEATHER AND COURSE CONDITIONS

If you follow San Francisco weather from afar, it's been an extreme winter. If you live anywhere in California, you've lived it.

But what's good for the state's water supply has wreaked havoc in many places, And many older golf courses in hilly places are extremely saturated. Players should be lauded for keeping a positive mental outlook in the face of lost balls due to plugged lies in the fairway -- even with a maximum score of triple bogey in effect; those can be hard to take. 

Thanks to the Presidio for hosting major portions of the tournament again, and for making every effort to get fairways and rough mown, and the course in the most playable condition possible.