ISPS Handa Melbourne World Cup of Golf
Scores after Round 2
  Pos          Team                                                                      Country               R1             R2              R3             R4                      Agg            Par
PAR 144
134 SOUTH KOREA (Byeong Hun AN / Si Woo KIM 62 72)
134 BELGIUM (Thomas PIETERS / Thomas DETRY 63 71)

136 MALAYSIA 136 (Gavin GREEN / Ben LEONG 63 73)
136 ENGLAND 136 (Tyrrell HATTON / Ian POULTER 62 74) 
136 ITALY 136 (Andrea PAVAN / Renato PARATORE 65 71)
136 INDIA 136 (Anirban LAHIRI / Gaganjeet BHULLAR 64 72)

137 MEXICO (Abraham ANCER / Roberto DIAZ 67 70)

138 AUSTRALIA (Marc LEISHMAN / Cameron SMITH 62 76)
138 SCOTLAND (Russell KNOX / Martin LAIRD 67 71)  

139 SWEDEN (Alexander BJÖRK / Joakim LAGERGREN 65 74)
139 FRANCE (Alexander LEVY / Mike LORENZO-VERA 66 73)

140 IRELAND (Shane LOWRY / Paul DUNNE 64 76)
140 DENMARK (Thorbjørn OLESEN / Søren KJELDSEN 63 77)

141 NEW ZEALAND (Ryan FOX / Mark BROWN 65 76)
141 CANADA (Adam HADWIN / Nick A TAYLOR 68 73)
141 FINLAND (Mikko KORHONEN / Mikko ILONEN 66 75)

142 SPAIN (Adrian OTAEGUI / Jorge CAMPILLO 68 74.
142 SOUTH AFRICA (Dylan FRITTELLI / Erik VAN ROOYEN 66 76)
142 CHINA (Haotong LI / Ashun WU 66 76)
142 WALES (Stuart MANLEY / Bradley DREDGE 70 73)

145 UNITED STATES (Kyle STANLEY / Matt KUCHAR 66 79 )
145 THAILAND (Kiradech APHIBARNRAT / Prom MEESAWAT 67 78}
145 JAPAN (Satoshi KODAIRA / Hideto TANIHARA 66 79)

147 VENEZUELA (Jhonattan VEGAS / Joseph NAFFAH 65 82)
149 GERMANY (Martin KAYMER / Maximilian KIEFFER 68 81)
151 NETHERLANDS (Joost LUITEN / Daan HUIZING 69 82)
153 GREECE (Peter KARMIS / Alexander TRANACHER 66 87)

NEWS Release Thomas Detry and Thomas Pieters battled the brutal conditions to move Belgium into a share of the lead with South Korea at the halfway stage of the ISPS HANDA Melbourne World Cup of Golf. With torrential rain and gusting winds sweeping across the Metropolitan Golf Club, the 28-team field could have been forgiven for thinking they were playing in the wrong hemisphere on Friday, with just four teams – Belgium, Italy, Mexico and Scotland - managing to break par in the notoriously tricky foursomes format. Detry and Pieters carded a one under 71, one better than Korea, to join Ben An and Si Woo Kim at the top of the leaderboard on ten under, with four teams – England (74), Italy (71), India (72) and Malaysia (73) – in a tie for third place two shots off the lead. Mexico’s two-under score was the best of the day and propelled Abraham Ancer and Roberto Diaz into seventh spot in seven under, while Scotland’s 71 saw them join host nation Australia on six under in a share of eighth. The tournament switches to four-balls for Saturday’s third round, with the final round moving back to foursomes on Sunday. Player Quotes BELGIUM – Thomas Pieters: “I think we played very solid.  Both of us were pretty much on our games.  The short game was pretty good today.  Thomas holed out great from six, seven feet in and I made some really good recovery bunker shots so we saved ourselves some good pars. "We'll try to do the same on Sunday as we did today, but tomorrow's a whole different game.  We did well yesterday in four-ball, we've just got to get going a bit earlier than we did yesterday and hopefully have another couple good ones.” Thomas Detry: “To be honest, I didn't think we would finish today.  Waking up this morning and getting here, it was just like horizontal rain.  So wind got up, wind didn't drop, so it was just a tough day all around.  Yeah, happy it's done and I'm excited for my shower tonight!” SOUTH KOREA  Ben An: “It's such a tough format with this wind and rain, so I think we did well to shoot under par today. It was a cold day, so it was like just trying to hold on and have some fun .  We tried to stay focused and it's such a tough wind and rain, so it was really -- it was chaos, so I think we kept in the game and never got out of it.

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