Royal Colwood鈥檚 Kevin Carrigan not only turned the heat up a notch in Round 2 of the sa国际传媒 Amateur Golf Championship in the Invermere area on Wednesday, he left severe burn marks on the rest of the field.
Carrigan recorded an eagle and eight birdies, sprinkled in with a double bogey, en route to his course-record tying 8-under 62 at Copper Point Golf Club.
The Victoria native has a four-stroke lead over Kevin Spooner of West Vancouver and Maple Ridge鈥檚 Kevin Kwon, who turned in rounds of 69 and 70 respectively to sit at a 6-under 136 total after the first two days.
Carrigan had opened with a 2-under 70 on the Springs course on Tuesday.
He now owns a piece of the course record along with PGA player Stephen Ames and Kent Eger, who plays on the PGA Tour sa国际传媒.
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Hughes, of Langley, is tied for fourth with Brent Wilson of Gorge Vale, who both shot 69 and sit a shot back of Spooner and Kwon.
Carrigan, who started on the back nine, was 6-under at the turn with birdies at holes No 12, 14, 16 and 17, then capped it with an eagle at the 18th.
Other Island golfers in the hunt are Victoria Golf Club鈥檚 Craig Doell, (70-71) who is tied for 11th along with Darren Day (70-71) of Royal Colwood and Nanaimo鈥檚 Zach Anderson (70-71).
Carrigan and Day captured the Hamber Club team trophy for Royal Colwood.聽
The four-day championship is being played at the Copper Point and the Springs at Radium courses. The top three will represent sa国际传媒 at the Canadian Amateur, slated for Royal Colwood and Gorge Vale from Aug. 6-9.
n sa国际传媒 Golf announced its Hall of Fame inductees for 2013.
Included in the group is Nanaimo鈥檚 Sandy Harper, who has won on every level provincially except for one. Over his career, Harper has claimed the sa国际传媒 Junior, sa国际传媒 Amateur, sa国际传媒 Master 40 and the sa国际传媒 Senior championships, requiring just the sa国际传媒 Mid-Amateur to hold all the men鈥檚 titles.
The Hall of Fame ceremony will take place Oct. 24 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club.
