Trio lead the way in Vegas

American trio Tom Pernice Jnr, Troy Matteson and Spencer Levin were locked in a three-way tie for the lead at the end of the first round of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.

Fifty-year-old Pernice, a winner on the Champions Tour at the SAS Championship last month, laid down the gauntlet with a bogey-free nine-under-par 62 and was joined in a share of the overnight lead by Matteson, the 2006 winner, who fired 10 birdies and an eagle.