TAIWAN MASTERS SUMMARY AND SCORES

NEWS RELEASE FROM ASIAN TOUR

Taipei: Baek Seuk-hyun of South Korea battled through swirling wind and rain for one-over-par 73 to share the halfway lead at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters today.

Baek was tied with Filipino veteran Antonio Lascuna (73) and Chinese Taipei trio Wang Shih-jui (73), overnight leader Lien Chi-wei (77) and Tsai Chi-huang, the only player to break par with a 69 for one-under-par 143 at the US$600,000 Asian Tour event.

The halfway cut was set at six-over-par 150 with a total of 54 players making the weekend rounds.

ROUND 2 SCOREBOARD

Par 144 (2x72) Yardage 6,923

143 Antonio LASCUNA (PHI) 70-73, BAEK Seuk-hyun (SKOR) 70-73, WANG Shih-jui (TPE) 70-73, LIEN Chi-wei (TPE) 66-77, TSAI Chi-huang (TPE) 74-69.

144 Kalle SAMOOJA (FIN) 71-73, LIN Wen-tang (TPE) 71-73,  SIDDIKUR (BAN) 72-72, Danny CHIA (MAS) 72-72.

145 Boonchu RUANGKIT (THA) 73-72, CHEN Tze-chung (TPE) 73-72, Angelo QUE (PHI) 70-75, YEH Wei-tze (TPE) 74-71, Adilson DA SILVA (BRA) 73-72, Guido VAN DER VALK (NED) 73-72.

146 David LIPSKY (USA) 72-74, Anirban LAHIRI (IND) 71-75.

147 Panuwat MUENLEK (THA) 71-76, SUNG Mao-chang (TPE) 72-75, LAM Chih Bing (SIN) 72-75, CHANG Yao-pin (TPE) 73-74, LU Chien-soon (TPE) 77-70, LIN Keng-chi (TPE) 73-74, HSIEH Chin-sheng (TPE) 71-76, HSIEH Chi-hsien (TPE) 70-77.