Two golfers with Hawaii ties finished near the top of the leaderboard after the first round of the 121st U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship on Monday in Rye, N.Y.

Aneka Seumanutafa, who grew up in West Oahu before moving to Maryland and won the Jennie K. Wilson Invitational in May, fired a 2-under-par 70 to end the day as part of a group of five players one shot behind leader Suthavee Chanachai at Westchester Country Club. Seumanutafa, a rising junior at Ohio State, was added to the field on Saturday as an alternate.

Allysha Mae Mateo, a Maryknoll graduate from Mililani, enters today’s play another shot back at 1 under and tied for seventh.

The stroke-play portion of the tournament concludes today with the top 64 qualifying for match play, which begins on Wednesday.