SKorea’s Song hits right note in Singapore
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South Korean Song Young-han soared to the Singapore Open lead after a sparkling eight-under-par 63 yesterday as world No. 1 Jordan Spieth had his second round charge halted by more inclement weather.
The 22-year-old American, the headline act of the Japan Golf Tour and Asian Tour’s season opening event, was level par after six holes of his round yesterday when rain, then lightning warnings, forced the players from the Sentosa Golf Course.
The double major winner’s four-under 24 hole total left him tied sixth, five behind the impressive Song (133).
Spieth will resume with a testing birdie putt after being caught out by the changing weather on the seventh.
“I went to play my putt that’s when the rain came in hard almost horizontally. My putt came up seven feet short,” the Texan told reporters. “That’s golf, that’s weather, you can’t control that. I could tell it was bad on other parts of the course.”
South Korean Song had no such problems as he enjoyed a birdie bonanza on a cooler and calmer morning in the Southeast Asian city-state.
The 24-year-old picked up seven birdies and an eagle in his round to put him two clear of Japan’s Shintaro Kobayashi (69) and South Korean world No. 26 An Byeong-hun, who was three-under through seven holes of his second round when play stopped.
Song credited his putting for his impressive round as he put himself in pole position to claim a first major title of his career. “It was a superb round and I really have to thank my excellent putting for putting me in this position,” Song said.
“The goal is to win the tournament this week and for now, I just want to take a good rest before I come back again and hopefully play well like what I did today.”
A good 78 players will resume their second rounds today.
In Los Angeles, Scott Brown and Andrew Loupe shared the first-round lead at Torrey Pines on Thursday on six-under par 66 as defending champion Jason Day struggled in the Us$6.5 million US PGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open.
Australia’s Day, ranked second in the world, had skipped Wednesday’s pro-am with flu-like symptoms. He got off to a good start on the Torrey Pines North Course, teeing off on 10 and nabbing birdies at 13, 14 and 15. He bounced back after bogeys at 17 and the first with a birdie sat the second, but back-to-back bogeys at seven and eight saw him finish the day tied for 76th.
Rickie Fowler, who has ascended to world No. 4 on the strength of an impressive victory in Abu Dhabi, fired an opening 73 that included a double-bogey and three bogeys on the North Course, the easier of two layouts in use over the first two rounds of the tournament.
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