ASIA-PACIFIC OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

ADAM'S GOLF NOT SO BLAND IN JAPAN

 ASIAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan: Unheralded Adam Bland of Australia got the Japanese crowd to take notice of him after he fired a three-under-par 68 to take the second-round lead at the US$1.5 million Asia-Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup today

The 32-year-old Australian has a two-day total of five-under-par 137 to take a one-shot lead over Thailand’s Prayad Marksaeng  (69-69) and South Korea’s S K Ho (68-70) on 138 at the Ohtone Country Club.

SECOND-ROUND LEADERS

Par 142 (2x71) Yardage 7,117

137 Adam BLAND (AUS) 69-68.

138 Prayad MARKSAENG (THA) 69-69, S.K. HO (SKOR) 68-70.

139 BAEK Seuk-hyun (SKOR) 70-69, LIANG Wen-chong (CHN) 70-69, Akio SADAKATA (JPN) 69-70, I.J. JANG (SKOR) 70-69, Hiroyuki FUJITA (JPN) 68-71.

140 LEE Kyoung-hoon (KOR) 72-68, Masanori KOBAYASHI (JPN) 71-69, K.T. KIM (KOR) 71-69, Adilson DA SILVA (BRA) 73-67, Kiyoshi MUROTA (JPN) 68-72, Cameron SMITH (AUS) 66-74, Marcus BOTH (AUS) 69-71, Javi COLOMO (ESP) 70-70, Yoshitaka TAKEYA (JPN) 73-67.

141 Kieran PRATT (AUS) 72-69, KIM Hyung-sung (KOR) 71-70, Kunihiro KAMII (JPN) 71-70, Juvic PAGUNSAN (PHI) 69-72, Scott STRANGE (AUS) 70-71, Scott HEND (AUS) 69-72, Kazuhiro YAMASHITA (JPN) 72-69, Arjun ATWAL (IND) 69-72, Shinji TOMIMURA (JPN) 69-72.

 

Selected scores

142 David LIPSKY (USA) 69-73, Ryo ISHIKAWA (JPN) 72-70

143 Anirban LAHIRI (IND) 70-73, Kiradech APHIBARNRAT (THA) 71-72