Kiradech leads amid storms
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March 6, 2010, Saturday
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THAILAND'S Kiradech Aphibarnrat led the weather-interrupted Malaysian Open on nine-under-par despite completing only 14 holes of his second round yesterday.
Kiradech, who started on the 10th, chipped in from 30 yards for an eagle three on the par-five fifth, his final hole of the day, before bad light stopped play after more than two hours were lost because of storms.
"I was very lucky on that eagle," Kiradech, the world No. 231, told the Asian Tour Website. "It wasn't quite dark... I wanted to continue and chipped in for eagle."
Spain's Alejandro Canizares was a shot back on eight-under after managing to complete his three-under 69 round just before play stopped at the co-sanctioned Asian and European Tour event.
Earlier, Dane Soren Hansen and Filipino Angelo Que both fired five-under 67s in the morning session to sit at seven-under after another hot and humid day at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country club.
Temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius with 75 percent humidity which proved too much for India's Jyoti Randhawa and Argentine Rafa Echenique, who both withdrew from the tournament before yesterday's round after suffering effects from the weather.
Que, a two-time winner on the Asian Tour, fired six birdies in his round.
Overnight leaders
Overnight leaders Ignacio Garrido (16 holes) and Rhys Davies (11) and South Korean's Kim Dae-hyun (9) and KJ Choi (16) were also at seven-under and will have to finish their rounds early today, when more storms are expected.
In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Australia's Nathan Green and American Michael Connell fired five-under 65s to share the first round lead at The Honda Classic on Thursday, while Yang Yong-eun opened his title defense with a dreadful nine-over 79.
Green and Connell both returned bogey-free rounds in gusty, cool conditions to lead Colombia's Camilo Villegas, Briton Oliver Wilson and Brazil's Alex Rocha by a stroke.
Fiji's Vijay Singh lurked one shot further adrift on three-under 67 with Americans DJ Trahan and Bubba Watson.
Yang, who won his first PGA title with victory at The Honda Classic last year, got his defense off to a bumbling start and never recovered.
Playing the back nine first, the South Korean bogeyed the 10th then made a mess of the 436-yard par-four 11th taking a quintuple bogey nine.
Yang twice hit his approach shots into the water then three-putted, including a miss from inside five feet.
The PGA champion also had a double bogey and three more bogeys to go along with two birdies to finish ahead of just two players.
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