BANCHORY MAN MISSES JAKARTA CUT BY FIVE SHOTS

BYRNE CRASHES OUT OF INDONESIAN 

MASTERS AFTER AN 8 AT PAR-4 HOLE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Northern Open champion James Byrne's pro golf career continues at a low ebb. He missed the cut by five shots with a second-round 78, which included a quadruple bogey 8, in the Indonesian Masters at Royal Jakarta Golf Club.

Byrne had been alongside former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen on the par 72 mark at the end of the first round but while Oosthuizen rose to a 68 for 140, the Banchory man plummeted to 150 and out of the competition. He had birdies at the third and 10th but that quadruple bogey 8 at the fifth was surrounded by other mistakes - bogeys at the first, eighth, 11th and 17th in halves of 41-37.

Rising French star Victor Dubuisson, who had been two behind Byrne after a 74, shot a second-round 69 for 143 to make the cut.

Chinese Taipei’s Lin Wen-tang fired a sparkling eight-under-par 64 to take the second round clubhouse lead on 10-under 134

Inclement weather brought a halt to the day’s action at 5pm (local time) and 19 players will have to resume their rounda at 6.45am (local time) on Saturday
SECOND-ROUND LEADERS
Par 144 (2x72) Yardage: 7,340
134 Wen-tang Lin (Tpe) 70 64
135 Cameron Smith (Aus) 68 67.

136 Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 68 68, Nicholas Fung (Mas) 67 69.

137 S S P Chowrasia (Ind) 71 66

SELECTED SCORES
139 Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 68 71, Marcus Both (Aus) 69 70 (T9).
140 Jake Higginbottom (Aus) 68 72, Louis Oosthuizen (SAf) 72 68 (T16)
143 Victor Dubuisson (Fra) 74 69, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 71 72 (T38)

144 Steve Lewton (Eng) 74 70 (T46)

 MISSED THE CUT (145 and better qualified)

150 James Byrne (Sco) 72 78.