BARRY HUME RUNS UP AN

EMBARRASSING 85 IN

ASIAN TOUR EVENT - MISSES

CUT BY 17 STROKES

If Barry Hume thought things couldn't get much worse after his error-strewn 76 in the first round of the Motorola International Bintan tournament, the Scot was in for a shock in the second round in Indonesia today.

The former Scottish amateur champion, pictured right, played to a double-figure handicap in amateur terms with a 13-over-par 85 to miss the halfway cut in this Asian Tour event by SEVENTEEN strokes.

Hume's embarrassing second-round card included a triple bogey 7 at the ninth, a triple bogey 7 at the 12th, a triple bogey 7 at the 13th, a double bogey 7 at the 15th and a double bogey 6 at the 17th.

The Glasgow man required 47 shots for the inward half. By the way, he did birdie the seventh and 14th and dropped a single shot at the 10th.

Meanwhile, some people could play the course, such as Australian Adam Blyth who fired a new course record of seven-under-par 65 to charge into the joint halfway lead with American Mike Cunning.
The 25-year-old Blyth, chasing his maiden title on the Asian Tour, was flawless at the spectacular Gary Player-designed Ria Bintan Golf Club as he sank five birdies and an eagle to better the day-old record set by Cunning and New Zealand's Mark Brown.
India's Vivek Bhandari also carded a spectacular 65, an 11 shot improvement from his opening round 76 and was delighted to cancel his holiday plans after safely moving into the weekend rounds.
Cunning, who turns 49 this year, lived up to the old saying "beware the sick golfer" as he laboured to a 69 to retain his overnight lead in the US$350,000 event. The American, winner of Asia's Order of Merit in 1997 and struggling with the flu this week, sank an eagle at the par-5 16 for the second straight day and then tied Blyth with a 20ft birdie at the par-3 18th hole on this holiday isle off the coast of Singapore.
The halfway cut was set at 144 with 72 players qualifying for the weekend rounds.

Compatriots Simon Dunn and Ross Bain joined Hume on the sidelines although they were a good deal closer to the cut-off figure.
SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD

Par 144 (2 x 72)
135 Adam Blyth (Aus) 70 65, Mike Cunning (US) 66 69.
136 Ted Oh (Kor) 67 69, Scott Strange (Aus) 69 67.
137 Peter Fowler (Aus) 68 69, Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 70 67, Mark Brown (NZ) 66-71, Scott Hend (Aus) 69 68, Rick Gibson (Can) 68 69.
138 Lin Wen-Tang (Tpe) 70 68, Airil Rizman Zahari (Mas) 69 69, Lucas Parsons (Aus) 71 67, Panuwat Muenlek (Tha) 69 69, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 70 68, Angelo Que (Phi) 69 69, Gareth Paddison (NZ) 70 68, Clay Devers (US) 68 70.
139 - David Gleeson (Aus) 71 68, Park Jun-won (Kor) 68 71, Unho Park (Aus) 71 68, Tatsuhiko Takahashi (Jap) 70 69, Corey Harris (US) 72 67.
140 - Adam Bland (Aus) 72 68, Roy Moon (US) 71 69, Adam Groom (Aus) 70 70, Jason Knutzon (US) 69 71, Yasin Ali (Eng) 69 71, Lin Keng-chi (Tpe) 68 72, Scott Barr (Aus) 71 69, Artemio Murakami (Phi) 72 68.
141 - Vivek Bhandari (Ind) 76 65, Scott Taylor (US) 71 70, Leigh McKechnie (Aus) 72 69, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 72, P. Gunasegaran (Mas) 68 73, Taichiro Kiyota (Jap) 70 71, Mo Joong-kyung (Kor) 70 71.

NON-QUALIFIERS INCLUDED (144 was cut-off figure)

146 Simon Griffiths (Eng) 70 76.

147 Simon Dunn (Sco) 74 73.

149 Ben St John (Eng) 75 74.

150 Ross Bain (Sco) 76 74.

151 Eddie Barr (Ire) 73 78.

161 Barry Hume (Sco) 76 85.