Parker McLachlin, a former Honolulu resident and Punahou School alum, shot a 2-under-par 70 yesterday in the opening round of the six-round PGA Tour National Qualifying Tournament in Winter Garden, Fla.

McLachlin, who had three birdies and a bogey, is tied for 41st, along with Kamehameha Schools graduate Keoke Cotner, who played on the Nationwide Tour last year.

Frank Lickliter II and Brendon de Jonge shot 10-under 62s at Orange County National to share the first-round lead.

The four-shot lead shared by Lickliter and de Jonge is the largest first-round lead at the tournament since 1991, when the tour began keeping such statistics.

The top 25 finishers and ties will earn 2008 PGA Tour cards, while the next group of players nearest 50 will get full Nationwide Tour exemptions. The remaining players in the 166-man field will receive conditional Nationwide Tour status.

McLachlin, a rookie on the PGA Tour this past season, earned $627,582 in 28 events. He finished 137th on the PGA Tour money list, missing the 125 cutoff that enables golfers to receive full PGA Tour privileges.

The 38-year-old Lickliter, a two-time winner on the tour, had 10 birdies — six in a row on Nos. 2-7 — on the Panther Lake course. De Jonge, from Zimbabwe, had two eagles and six birdies in his bogey-free round, also at Panther Lake.

Lickliter finished 139th on the money list this year, and de Jonge was 155th.

LPGA

MIYAJIMA 8-OVER

Maui's Shayna Miyajima shot 8-over 80 yesterday and was 130th in a 135-player field after the first round of the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The top 17 players Sunday after the fifth round will earn 2008 LPGA Tour cards, while the next 35 will receive conditional status.

Miyajima played this season on the Duramed Futures Tour.

Jane Park shot a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead over 10-year tour veteran Kelli Kuehne.

Park, the former UCLA star who won the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur, opened with an eagle on the Legends Course, holing out with a 9-iron from 128 yards on No. 10. She birdied the 12th, then had five birdies and a bogey on the front nine.

"I just don't want to get ahead of myself," Park said. "I'm going to put my round today in the past. Tomorrow is a whole new day and everyone is playing on the same golf courses. I'm just going to go out there and try to do my best like I did today."