South Korean teenager Noh Seung-yul shot a second straight four-under-par 67 to take the clubhouse lead at the Korea Open, with almost half the field still to complete their second round.
On a day of high drama, Yoo Jong-ku recorded the second hole-in-one of the OneAsia tournament and drove off with a BMW.
Australian Anthony Brown carded a 71 to stay two-under and overnight co-leader John Huh of the USA was one behind after a 74 at the Woo Jeong Hills Country Club in Cheonan, where Thursday’s start was postponed because of heavy fog.
Of those still playing their second round, overnight co-leader Kang Sung-hoon was four-under after 11 holes and South Korean-born New Zealander Danny Lee was three-under through 13.
surgery
Three-time PGA Tour winner Anthony Kim looks set to miss the cut after a 79 left him 13-over as he continues to rebuild his game following thumb surgery in May.
Noh, 19, is bidding for his first Kolon Korea Open title after finishing 10th in 2006 as a 15-year-old amateur and joint ninth in 2008. The world’s fourth-highest ranked Korean only completed his first-round 67 yesterday morning, reeling off five straight pars.
Teeing off his second round at hole 10, Noh bogeyed the par-three 13th, but responded with back-to-back birdies, then followed up with three more on holes one, two and five.
“The reason I’m at the top of the leaderboard is because I’ve only had two bogeys in two rounds, one today and one yesterday,” said Noh, who won the European Tour co-sanctioned Maybank Malaysian Open in March and currently leads the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
in the hunt
Brown also finished his opening round yesterday morning and his even-par second round kept him in the hunt. The Melbourne resident fell back with three bogeys and a birdie on his first nine, but made up for it with birdies on 13 and 14.
“Today was a bit up and down. I was kind of hitting everywhere on the front nine, but I was much more solid on the back nine, where I was two-under,” Brown said.
Bae Sang-moon’s hat-trick bid continued with a 72, which left him even-par and level with Kim Dae-hyun, the Korean Tour money list leader.
Veteran Yoo, 45, was bottom of the leaderboard when he used a 17-degree hybrid to ace the 221-yard 13th hole and win a BMW 750Li sedan worth US$160,000.
Australian Stephen Leaney hit a hole-in-one at the seventh on Thursday, where no prize was on offer.
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