Canadian veteran Stephen Ames opened with an eight-under par 64 opening round to take a one-stroke lead at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 61-year-old, who has four PGA Tour wins and nine on the Champions Tour, converted from the intermediate rough on the par-4 No. 18 to take a birdie into the second round. He carded five birdies in a six-hole stretch at from on the second to seventh holes on his way to the bogey-free round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World Golf Hall of Fame member and 66-year-old Fred Couples \u00a0shot a 65 to be tied joint second with Freddie Jacobsen shot 65s while defending champion Ernie Els is one of seven golfers two shots off the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacobson is one of seven first timers in the field at Hualalai this week, is seeking his first win on PGA TOUR Champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In joint seventh with Els are Jay Haas David Duval, Stewart Cink, Canadian Mike Weir, Australia\u2019s Richard Green, and Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sixty-two-year-old Vijay Singh, who finished tied for 40th<\/sup> at last week\u2019s Sony Open at Waialae Country Club, followed it up with a 6-under 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LEADERBOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Canadian veteran Stephen Ames opened with an eight-under par 64 opening round to take a one-stroke lead at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1.jpg",2002,1125,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-1536x863.jpg",1536,863,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1.jpg",2002,1125,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Ames_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Player<\/strong><\/td> To Par<\/strong><\/td> Scores<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> Stephen Ames<\/td> -8<\/td> 31-33 \u2013 64<\/td><\/tr> T2<\/td> Freddie Jacobson<\/td> -7<\/td> 33-32 \u2013 65<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> Fred Couples<\/td> -7<\/td> 32-33 \u2013 65<\/td><\/tr> T4<\/td> Seven players tied<\/td> -6<\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"