Duncan Stewart moves up with 65 Down Under

 

Perth, Australia: Home favourite Brett Rumford of Australia continued to delight the galleries by taking the second-round lead with a seven-under-par 65 at the ISPS HANDA World Super 6 Perth today.

The Perth, Western Australia native safely progressed into the third round with his two-day total of 13-under-par 131 and remains well poised to make it into Sunday’s round which will feature an innovative six-hole match-play knockout at the Lake Karrinyup Country Club.

Australia’s David Bransdon, who had earlier taken the morning clubhouse lead, was also well positioned to take his place among the top-24 players for Sunday’s finale after he posted the day’s lowest score of 64 to take second place.

Reigning Asian Development Tour (ADT) Order of Merit champion Johannes Veerman of the United States meanwhile continued his impressive form when he returned with a 68 to put himself into a good position for the knockout stage too.

With his father on his bag again this week, Veerman is tied for fourth after two rounds and knows it could well turn out to be another formidable partnership at the AUD$1.75 million event that is tri-sanctioned by the Asian Tour, the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and European Tour.

Edinburgh-based Duncan Stewart, pictured above, from Grantown on Spey moved up to joint 10th with a 65 for 137.

 

The cut was set at two-under with 67 players who included Major winner Louis Oosthuizen featuring in the third round. The field will be further reduced with a second cut made to the leading 24 players after 54 holes. The top-eight players after the third round will be rewarded with an automatic seeding into the second match-play round.
Aberdeen-born Australian Michael Sim missed the cut by one shot with a 143 tally.
Scott Henry (148) was another who will miss the weekend action.

  

 

Key Quotes 

 

Brett Rumford (Australia), Second round 65 (-7), Total 131 (-13)

I’m pretty tired today as it was harder than I actually anticipated.  The weather forecast was supposed to be only about 31 today, but felt like about 40.  It was really just about keeping up the fluids and keeping up the energy levels.  It’s one of those things that someone’s going to have to finish first in the qualifier but there’s no real advantage between 1 and 24.  They’re all great players here this week and match play of six holes, it’s a bit of a lottery.  So obviously just getting your foot in the door and qualifying is the number one key, that’s it.

 

David Brandson (Australia) Second round 64 (-8) Total 133 (-11)

It was nice for the putter to work early.  It worked early last week on the first round, but it was nice to get it going early and then make a few more around the turn, and then she got a bit cold toward the end, but that’s okay. Well, you need to be in that top 8 after three rounds, so I’m in a good position with that.  Top 24 obviously, that’s the goal because if you’re not in the top 24 you don’t get to be part of the fun on Sunday.

 

Johannes Veerman (USA) Second round 68 (-4) Total 135 (-9)

It was very windy this morning but I hit the ball so well yesterday and I knew that if I can continue doing so, it wouldn’t even matter much even if it was blowing hard. My father and I have a good track record and it’s a lot of fun. He has a lot more forgiveness from me instead of a regular caddie. It’s a different feeling. You usually play to win but I guess for this week, you try to get into the top-eight first and see what happens. I haven’t played matchplay unless you consider playing with my brother and friends!

 

Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) Second round 68 (-4), Total 137 (-7)

I’m basically just playing to get into the top-eight after Saturday and if not, be in the top-24.  So I’m just trying not to do anything silly out there by taking on risky shots, I'm just plodding along and see how many pars I can make and how many birdie opportunities I can get. I'm trying to play pretty safe off the tee and just give myself good iron shots in.  I feel pretty confident with the iron play at the moment but just struggling to get a good roll on the greens. 

 

Leading Scores after round 2 of the ISPS HANDA WORLD SUPER 6 PERTH being played at the par 72, 6531 Metres Lake Karrinyup GC course (am - denotes amateur):

players from Australia unless stated otherwise.

131 - Brett Rumford 66-65.

133 - David Bransdon 69-64.

134 - Steven Jeffress 68-66.

135 - Lucas Herbert 67-68, Johannes Veerman (USA) 67-68.

136 - Matthew Millar 71-65, Adam Blyth 67-69, Daniel Fox 67-69, Sebastian Heisele (GER) 67-69.

137 - Duncan Stewart (SCO) 72-65, Casey O'Toole (USA) 67-70, Josh Younger 68-69, Ryan Fox (NZ) 69-68, Ryan Evans (ENG) 69-68, Louis Oosthuizen (SAf) 69-68, Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN) 70-67.

138 - Michael Long (NZ) 69-69, Hideto Tanihara (JPN) 67-71, Jordan Smith (ENG) 68-70, Thomas Detry (BEL) 71-67, Austin Connelly (CAN) 69-69, Jeev Milkha Singh (India) 70-68, Robert Allenby  69-69, Nick Cullen 69-69, Jason Scrivener 67-71.

139 - Jake Higginbottom 69-70, S S P Chawrasia (India) 71-68, Taylor Macdonald 68-71, Mark Foster (ENG) 66-73, Pavit Tangkamolprasert (THA) 68-71, Ashun Wu (CHN) 72-67, Chiragh Kumar (India) 70-69.

140 - Ben Eccles 71-69, Adam Bland 71-69, Prom Meesawat (THA) 70-70, Phachara Khongwatmai (THA) 68-72, Natipong Srithong (THA) 69-71, Pep Angles (Spn) 68-72, Richard McEvoy (ENG) 71-69, James Heath (ENG) 69-71.

 141 S Soderberg (Swe) 69 72, C Wood 70 71, R McCarthy 71 70, M Korhonen (Fin) 68 73, J McLeod 69 72, J Wilson 69 72, S Khan (Eng) 73 68, J Zunic 73 68, W Ormsby 70 71, G Bhullar (India) 72 69, C Ford (Eng) 73 68, C Luck (am) 72 69,
142 S Brazel 71 71, M Nixon (Eng) 72 70, B Campbell (NZ) 69 73, M Griffin 73 69, G Bourdy (Fra) 71 71, A Wilkin 69 73, T Hart 70 72, P Uihlein (USA) 71 71, D Papadatos 68 74, R Green 72 70, B Coletta 73 69, M Hendry (NZ) 71 71, M Brown (NZ) 73 69, T Chuayprakong (Tha) 68 74, P Pittayarat (Tha) 72 70

 

MISSED THE CUT 

143 M Sim (Sco) 72 71, S Kapur (India) 70 73, A Noren (Swe) 74 69, T Pilkadaris 74 69, S Leaney 71 72, J Geary (Nzl) 69 74, B Watt  70 73, M Fraser 75 68, A Rai (Eng) 72 71, J Parry (Eng) 71 72, J Nitties 70 73, L Jensen (Den) 72 71, D Lawson 71 72, B Kennedy 74 69, R Dinwiddie (Eng) 67 76, S Vincent (Zim) 73 70, J Randhawa (India) 71 72, T Lewis (Eng) 71 72, M Kawamura (Jpn) 69 74, A Price 71 72,
144 J Felton 74 70, T Sinnott 76 68, S Dartnall 67 77, A Evans 72 72, D Perrier (Fra) 72 72, N Holman 71 73, A Chesters (Eng) 69 75, C S (India) 71 73, P Widegren (Swe) 73 71, D Klein (Ger) 73 71, O Wilson (Eng) 75 69, C Pigem (Spn) 68 76, L Weber (Fra) 72 72, R Haller 70 74,
145 A Martin 75 70, J Cabban 71 74, E Molinari (Ita) 71 74, L Wenchong (Chn) 76 69, R Johnson (Swe) 71 74, A Saddier (Fra) 75 70, P Maddy (Eng) 73 72, M McCardle  73 72, J Rutherford (Eng) 76 69, M Wright 76 69, N Basic 73 72, M Ford (Eng) 71 74, M Jager  71 74
146 J Allan (Eng) 74 72, J Stalter (Fra) 74 72, A Houston 74 72, R Echenique (Arg) 74 72, Z Lombard (SAf) 75 71, J Norris 74 72, N Kimsey (Eng) 74 72,
147 B Virto (Spn) 73 74, M Giles 77 70, R Bourke 74 73, D Jordan 75 72, N Johansson (Swe) 77 70, S Rahman (Ban) 75 72, B Shilton (NZ) 78 69, S Manley (Wal) 76 71, C Shih-Chang (Tpe) 73 74, P Swangarunporn (Tha) 70 77, N Fung (Malaysia) 72 75, C Parry (Aus) 74 73,
148 N Green 75 73, D Popovic 77 71, A Hall 77 71, S Henry (Sco) 78 70, J Guerrier (Fra) 72 76, J Edfors (Swe) 72 76, G Porteous (Eng) 70 78, B Moules  77 71
149 S Webster (Eng) 76 73, L Wei-Chih (Tpe) 72 77, B Rankin 73 76, H Chien-Yao (Tpe) 73 76, B Evans (Eng) 72 77, A Dodt 74 75
150 J Fahrbring (Swe) 76 74
151 A Townsend 77 74, D Chia (Malaysia) 77 74
152 S Chien (USA) 74 78
154 M Jonzon (Swe) 78 76 
155 D Horsey (Eng) 76 79
156 R Gangjee (India) 75 81 
157 P O'Malley 77 80
** D Boonma (Tha) 79 WD