Posted on: Friday, April 27, 2001

Castle High graduate leads Japan golf event

Associated Press

TOGO, Japan — Former Kane'ohe resident Dean Wilson equaled the course record with an 8-under-par 62 yesterday and took a two-shot lead after the first round of the $902,000 Chunichi Crowns golf tournament.

Wilson, of Orem, Utah, is seeking his second win on the Japan Professional Golf Tour. He had eight birdies — four in a row beginning on the sixth hole — on the 6,511-yard, par-70 Nagoya Golf Club Wago course in central Japan.

Wilson, a 1987 Castle High graduate, tied the course record Taichi Teshima of Japan set in 1997.

Shinichi Yokota shot a 64 with eight birdies and two bogeys and was second, a shot ahead of Toru Taniguchi and Hiroyuki Fujita.