ASIAN TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL FIRST STAGE

SIMPLE FOR SIMON AS HE GOES NINE 

SHOTS CLEAR IN THAILAND

England's Simon Griffiths has surged an astonishing nine strokes clear of the field after only two rounds of the Asian Tour Qualifying School First Stage at the Royal Thai Army Sports Centre.
Griffiths, trying to regain playing rights he lost, has had scores of 65 and 66 for 13-under-par 131.
Lying a distant second is Australia's Mitchell Brown with scores of 74 and 66 for 140.
In third place is Indian amateur Karan Taunk with scores of 72 and 69 for 141
The only Scot in the field - a Robert Wilson, whose name and link to Scotland is not familiar to me (writes Colin Farquharson) - missed the halfway cut by 19 shots.
Wilson shot 86 and 89 for 175. Only those who shot 156 and better for the first two rounds qualified.
SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
131 Simon Griffiths (England) 65 66
140 Mitchell Brown (Australia) 74  66
141 Karan Taunk (India) (amateur) 72 69
142 Danny Sahl (Canada) 71 71

SELECTED SCORES
144 Blair Wilson (Australia) 69 75, Martin Keyser (S Africa) 73 71 (T5)
145 Craig Hinton (England) 74 71 (T8)
155 Laurence Warne (England) 78 77, Steven Sharp (England) 79 76 (T33)
156 Josh Swallow (England) 76 80 (T36)

MISSED THE CUT (156 and better qualified)
157 Matthew Gleeson (Australia) 79 78
159 Matthew Tweddell (England) 77 82
167 Conor Thornton (Ireland) 81 86
175 Robert Wilson (Scotland) 86 89