Robert Keilch of Newport Beach, Calif., and Luke Montoya of Arroyo Grande, Calif., both shot rounds of 6-under 66 in the first round of the 2025 San Francisco City Championship qualifying. 

The qualifying stroke play is 36 holes, and competitors will play TPC Harding Park and Lincoln Park Golf Course. Lincoln Park is only a par 68 and 5,100 yards, but the par 3s are incredibly difficult, and the low score was 1-under 67 in the first round.

Players will play the course they did not play in the first round for the second round. After the two rounds this weekend, the top 64 players will be placed into a match-play bracket.

Keilch and Montoya both played Harding Park in the first round. Keilch recorded seven birdies and one bogey, while Montoya recorded six birdies and no bogeys. Montoya shot a 31 on the back nine with birdies on holes No. 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17. 

Keilch won the 2024 Agave Amateur and finished T8 at the Los Angeles City Championship. He is a junior on the Sonoma State University golf team after spending two years at Colorado. Montoya, a freshman at Cal Poly, made the final 32 of the 2024 San Francisco City Championship.