{"id":214711,"date":"2026-03-11T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:10:22","slug":"alejandro-de-castros-first-round-63-helps-senior-lead-r-e-lamkin-invitational-after-two-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214711\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro De Castro\u2019s First Round 63 Helps Senior Lead R.E. Lamkin Invitational After Two Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2013 Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alejandro-de-castro-piera\/9486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9486\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro de Castro Piera<\/a> carved up the San Diego Country Club in the opening round of the R.E.L. Invitational, matching his career low with a 9-under par 63 in the first of two rounds on Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238773\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day One Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe senior followed up his spectacular first round with a 2-under 70 in the second round, finishing the day with a four-stroke lead on Chanachon Chokprajakchat of San Diego State, -11 through two rounds. The 63 was his best round of the season so far, with seven birdies and an early on hole two.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a team, the Beach got off to a strong start in the opening round. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/steen-zeman\/9491\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9491\" target=\"_blank\">Steen Zeman<\/a> and Krishnav Chopraa all shot 70 in the first round, as the Beach was -15 after the first round. Huggins followed that up with a 71, finishing the day 3-under par and just outside of the Top 10 in a tie for 11th. Zeman was even in round two, also picking up an eagle on two to finish the day -2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State is locked in an exciting three-way battle at the top of the team leaderboard with co-hosts San Diego and San Diego State entering the final day of competition. Final round action can be followed through SCOREBOARD at <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238773\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238773\/scoring\/team<\/a> on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2013 Senior Alejandro de Castro Piera carved up the San Diego Country Club in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-214711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}