Scott Piercy has taken a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Sony Open in Hawaii.

The American birdied both par-fives and hit six-under-par 64 at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu to finish the day a stroke ahead of his compatriot Jeff Overton.

"I struck the ball well last week but I didn't feel like I rolled the ball well putting," Reuters quotes the 34-year-old as saying.

"I made a couple of little changes and I rolled it better today. The wind wasn't even blowing today compared to last week.

I just played solid today, hit it in a lot of fairways, hit a lot of greens, made two fairly key putts and took care of the par-fives."

Matt Jones of Australia is among a group of seven players tied in third place in the leaderboard.