South Korean stands between Open champion and Stockholm victory

No more Choi for Oosthuizen if "K J" has anything to do with it

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
South Korean K J Choi will try to bridge a seven-year gap in Stockholm this weekend - and with it stop Open champion Louis Oosthuizen from making a piece of European Tour history.
No winner of the Claret Jug has ever gone on to lift another trophy on the circuit a week later, but Oosthuizen still has that chance after adding a two-under-par 70 to his opening 67 at the Nordea Scandinavian Masters.
However Choi, whose only previous victory in Europe was the 2003 German Masters, is two ahead of the South African at halfway, with Swede Richard Johnson sandwiched between them.
In what looked like desperation two weeks ago Choi switched to a bizarre-looking side-saddle putting method once used by the great Sam Snead, but - after missed cuts at the John Deere Classic and then in The Open at St Andrews - the 40-year-old has gone back to a conventional style.
Earlier, though, he had eagled the long 15th - his sixth hole of the day - and birdied three of the next four to open a five-stroke lead.
Oosthuizen had his misses on the greens too, but has no plans for any drastic changes.
Like Choi, Johnson is based in America and his only European Tour success was eight years ago - in Australia. The 33-year-old's bogey-free 66 was the low round of the day.
Johnson's compatriot and playing partner Jesper Parnevik, out of golf since February after the discovery of a career-threatening fractured vertebrae, quit after 11 holes of his second round.
That was longer than he feared he might last and Parnevik, five over at the time, will now continue the rehab which he hopes can make him a Tour regular again.
Former US Open champion Michael Campbell had more shoulder trouble, meanwhile, and called it a day at 15 over with nine to play. The New Zealander has made only one cut in 19 events since last October.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
135 K J Choi (SKor) 68 67
136 Richard S Johnson (Swe) 70 66
137 Rafael Echenique (Arg) 68 69, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 67 70
138 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 71 67, Richard Green (Aus) 67 71
139 Wilhelm Schauman (Swe) 73 66, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 68 71
140 Dustin Johnson (USA) 67 73, Peter Hanson (Swe) 72 68, Jamie Donaldson 72 68, Julien Guerrier (Fra) 69 71, Simon Thornton 73 67, George Coetzee (Rsa) 71 69, Michael Hoey 70 70
141 Brett Rumford (Aus) 71 70
142 Seung-yul Noh (SKor) 71 71, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 68 74, Nick Dougherty 73 69, Victor Dubuisson (Fra) 73 69, Mark Brown (Nzl) 73 69, Graeme Storm 75 67, Sam Hutsby 70 72, Scott Hend (Aus) 73 69, Anders Sjostrand (Swe) 75 67, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 72 70
143 Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 70 73, David Howell 71 72, Joost Luiten (Ned) 73 70, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 73 70, Steven O'Hara 69 74, David Lynn 73 70, James Morrison 71 72, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 73 70, Sam Little 70 73, Troy Matteson (USA) 73 70, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 71 72
144 Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 74 70, Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 72 72, Damien McGrane 73 71, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 72 72, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 73 71, Kenneth Ferrie 74 70, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 71 73, Anthony Wall 72 72, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 72 72, Marco Ruiz (Par) 70 74, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 69 75, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 73 71, Benjamin Hebert (Fra) 76 68
145 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 73 72, Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 73 72, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 71 74, Phillip Price 70 75, Scott Drummond 70 75, Oliver Fisher 72 73, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 72 73, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 73 72, Gary Boyd 69 76, David Dixon 69 76, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 72 73, James Ruth 75 70, Ariel Canete (Arg) 73 72, Pablo Martin (Spa) 72 73, Miles Tunnicliff 73 72
MISSED THE CUT
146 Chris Gane 75 71, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 75 71, Jesper Kennegard (Swe) 74 72, Fredrik Henge (Swe) 71 75, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 70 76, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 75, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 76 70, Jamie Elson 74 72, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 72 74, Richard Bland 72 74, Steve Webster 75 71, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 71 75, Jeff Karlsson (Swe) 74 72, Paul Broadhurst 73 73, Gary Clark 75 71, David Drysdale 72 74
147 Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe) 75 72, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 71 76, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 73 74, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 74 73, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 72 75, Rikard Karlberg (Swe) 74 73, Marius Thorp (Nor) 71 76, Anthony Kang (USA) 74 73, Joel Sjoholm (Swe) 73 74, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 78 69, Alastair Forsyth 76 71, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 72 75, Nils Floren (Swe) 72 75
148 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 73 75, Pontus Widegren (Swe) 78 70, Andrew Tampion (Aus) 71 77, Henrik Norlander (Swe) 75 73, Ake Nilsson (Rsa) 75 73, Richard McEvoy 72 76, Julien Quesne (Fra) 74 74, Robert Coles 74 74, Markus Brier (Aut) 75 73, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 77, Mark Foster 73 75
149 Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 76 73, Mark Tullo (Chi) 72 77, Paul Waring 77 72, Sion E Bebb 72 77, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 72 77, Gary Murphy 72 77, Mark F Haastrup (Den) 79 70, Stephen Dodd 73 76, Richard Finch 76 73, Rickie Fowler (USA) 73 76, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 74 75
150 Michiel Bothma (Rsa) 75 75, Martin Wiegele (Aut) 75 75, Robert Rock 72 78, Stephan Gross Jnr (Ger) 72 78, Liam Bond 77 73, Marc Warren 78 72, Scott Strange (Aus) 73 77, Danny Willett 72 78, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 75 75
151 Alexander Noren (Swe) 73 78, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 76 75, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 75 76, Rick Kulacz (Aus) 78 73, Phillip Archer 74 77, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 76 75, Peter Lawrie 74 77, Johan Edfors (Swe) 73 78
152 John Parry 79 73, Roope Kakko (Fin) 81 71, Andrew Dodt (Aus) 72 80
153 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 77 76, Peter Whiteford 75 78
154 Richie Ramsay 76 78, Andrew McArthur 74 80, David Lingmerth (Swe) 76 78, Marcus Palm (Swe) 77 77
155 Gary Lockerbie 78 77, Andrew Butterfield 79 76, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 75 80, James Kamte (Rsa) 77 78
156 Anton Haig (Rsa) 80 76, Clodomiro Carranza (Arg) 76 80
158 Victor Tarnstrom (Swe) 80 78, Peter Baker 80 78
159 Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 78 81
160 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 76 84, Carl Suneson (Spa) 81 79