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| December 6, 2003 | Saturday | Shawwal 11, 1424 |
Sick Allenby powers ahead
MELBOURNE, Dec 5: Australia’s Robert Allenby battled influenza and stomach cramps to snatch a two-stroke lead in the Australian Masters on Friday with a second
successive round of five-under-par 67.
The world number 18, whose tie with American Davis Love III allowed the Internationals to force a playoff in last month’s drawn Presidents Cup, had six birdies, three bogeys and an eagle on the par-five seventh hole.
Double Australian Masters winner Peter Senior, playing
his first tournament since May, grabbed outright second place at the halfway mark of the tournament on eight-under par 136 after rounds of 67 and 69.
Leading second round scores
134 Robert Allenby 67 67
136 Peter Senior 67 69
138 Nick O’Hern 68 70, Brad Lamb (68 70) 139 Jarrod Moseley 67 72, Peter Lonard 66 73
140 Marcus Fraser 70 70, Peter Fowler 69 71, Adam Scott 71 69, Steve Elkington 72 68, Adam Groom 70 70, Gareth Paddison (New Zealand) 70 70
141 Neil Sarkies 72 69, Jens Nilsson (Sweden) 72 69, Euan Walters 71 70, Rod Pampling 69 72
Other scores: 150 Rich Beem (U.S.) 74 76.
Beem missed the cut by four strokes.
McEvoy leads
HONG KONG: Britain’s Richard McEvoy maintained his grip on the Hong Kong Open after shooting a 68 in the second round on Friday to lead by three shots from defending champion Fredrik Jacobson.
McEvoy, who began the day four strokes ahead, again played superbly as he carded three birdies and a bogey to reach the halfway mark on 10-under-par 130 in the opening event of the 2004 European Tour season.
Jacobson shot a superb 65, including six birdies and a bogey, to move into second place.
Leading second round scores
130 Richard McEvoy 62 68
133 Fredrik Jacobson (Sweden) 68 65
135 Henrik Nystrom (Sweden) 69 66
136 Hennie Otto (South Africa) 68 68, Padraig Harrington
(Ireland) 67 69, Prayad Marksaeng (Thailand) 67 69, Peter
Gustafsson (Sweden) 72 64
137 Chris Gane 70 67, Darren Clarke 68 69,
Rob Rashell (U.S.) 70 67, Amandeep Johl (India) 66 71, Adam Fraser (Australia) 69 68, Christopher Hanell (Sweden) 68 69
138 Wang Ter-Chang (Taiwan) 68 70, Des Terblanche (South Africa) 70 68, Gary Rusnak (U.S.) 68 70, Michael Campbell (New Zealand) 67 71, Desvonde Botes (South Africa) 67 71, Shaun Webster 68 70, Tsai Chi-huang (Taiwan) 68 70, Choi Kyung-ju (Korea) 70 68.
139 Steven O’Hara 68 71, Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain) 68 71, Zhang Lian-wei (China) 67 72—Reuters
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