Falkirk-based Beth Allen falls out of lead at 

18th at Buick Championship in China

LET NEWS RELEASE
From Bethan Cutler, LET Media Manager

Defending champion Shanshan Feng shot a bogey-free second round of six-under-par 66 in cloudy conditions at Shanghai Qizhong Garden Golf Club today to share the lead with South Korean Na Yeon Choi at the Buick Championship in China.

Feng took a no-nonsense approach on the greens which led to six birdies and a halfway total of seven-under-par. She said: “I played great today. The wind was stronger and it was colder out there, so the conditions were tougher than yesterday. I made some nice putts which was different from yesterday. 

"Yesterday, those grains distracted me. I believed that it would break to the right or left, but it didn’t. Today, I took the lesson and putted them straightforward. It worked and I had a great round.”

At this point last year, Feng was six strokes clear of the field but it’s a tighter race heading into this weekend. Choi, who had a second round of 68, said: 

“My name is on the leader board so I’m pretty happy and proud of myself. I was patient out there as I didn’t have my A game, especially with my driver and irons, I missed a lot of shots. I was disappointed with myself but I tried to hang in and my caddie helped me a lot. The wind direction has been different every day so each hole it’s different, and it’s playing like a different course.”

China’s Xiyu Lin an Falkirk-bassed American Beth Allen, who were both winners on the Ladies European Tour in 2015, are a stroke behind the leaders on six under par. 

Allen held the outright lead at eight under until she hit her second shot heavy on the par-5 18^th hole and it found the water, resulting in a bogey. 

She said afterwards: “I’ve been playing really well and the last is really frustrating but I have to get over it and keep making birdies so we’ll see what happens.

“I think I had 27 putts today and 28 or 29 yesterday. I hit lots of greens in general so if I’m holing putts I’m scoring pretty well. I love this golf course and played well here last year. I like the greens here and I see them. I feel really comfortable and my putting stroke is the same as Morocco.”

England’s Florentyna Parker, who finished second at last week’s Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco, is a stroke further back, sharing fifth place with Welshwoman Becky Morgan and 15-year-old amateur Yifan Ji.
SCOTSWATCH (by Colin Farquharson)
Kylie Walker (72-147), Pamela Pretswell (73-149) and Carly Booth (76-149) all made the cut which fell at 149.
But Sally Watson out by two strokes with 76-75 for 151. 

 SECOND-ROUND TOTALS

T1		4	Na Yeon CHOI		F	-7	69	68	-	-	137
[+]	T1		15	Shanshan FENG		F	-7	71	66	-	-	137
[+]	T3		15	Xi Yu LIN		F	-6	71	67	-	-	138
[+]	T3		4	Beth ALLEN		F	-6	69	69	-	-	138
[+]	T5		4	Yifan JI (AM)		F	-5	69	70	-	-	139
[+]	T5		20	Florentyna PARKER		F	-5	72	67	-	-	139
[+]	T5		1	Becky MORGAN		F*	-5	68	71	-	-	139
[+]	T8		39	Wei Wei ZHANG		F*	-4	74	66	-	-	140
[+]	T8		4	Lina BOQVIST		F	-4	69	71	-	-	140
[+]	T8		4	Maria VERCHENOVA		F	-4	69	71	-	-	140
[+]	T8		31	So-Young JANG		F	-4	73	67	-	-	140
[+]	T8		12	Nanna Koerstz MADSEN		F*	-4	70	70	-	-	140
[+]	T8		12	Georgia HALL		F	-4	70	70	-	-	140
[+]	T14		60	Klara SPILKOVA		F	-3	75	66	-	-	141
[+]	T14		1	Melissa REID		F	-3	68	73	-	-	141
[+]	T16		20	Victoria LOVELADY		F	-2	72	70	-	-	142
[+]	T16		20	Camilla LENNARTH		F	-2	72	70	-	-	142
[+]	T18		4	Liz YOUNG		F*	-1	69	74	-	-	143
[+]	T18		4	Tao Li YANG		F	-1	69	74	-	-	143
[+]	T18		20	Pei-Lin YU		F*	-1	72	71	-	-	143
[+]	T18		15	Marianne SKARPNORD		F	-1	71	72	-	-	143
[+]	T22		20	Eleanor GIVENS		F*	E	72	72	-	-	144
[+]	T22		12	Isabelle BOINEAU		F*	E	70	74	-	-	144
[+]	T22		39	Aretha PAN		F*	E	74	70	-	-	144
[+]	T22		1	Nicole GARCIA		F*	E	68	76	-	-	144
[+]	T22		72	Ursula WIKSTROM		F*	E	76	68	-	-	144
[+]	T27		31	Qi TIAN (AM)		F*	+1	73	72	-	-	145
[+]	T27		39	Malene JORGENSEN		F	+1	74	71	-	-	145
[+]	T27		15	Noora TAMMINEN		F	+1	71	74	-	-	145
[+]	T27		20	Hyeon Seo KANG		F*	+1	72	73	-	-	145
[+]	T27		20	Rebecca ARTIS		F*	+1	72	73	-	-	145
[+]	T27		4	Stacy Lee BREGMAN		F*	+1	69	76	-	-	145
[+]	T27		31	Nicole BROCH LARSEN		F	+1	73	72	-	-	145
[+]	T27		39	Marta SANZ BARRIO		F*	+1	74	71	-	-	145
[+]	T35		20	Chloe LEURQUIN		F*	+2	72	74	-	-	146
[+]	T35		39	Valentine DERREY		F*	+2	74	72	-	-	146
[+]	T35		39	Ruixin LIU (AM)		F	+2	74	72	-	-	146
[+]	T35		39	Ploychompoo WIRAIRUNGRUENG		F	+2	74	72	-	-	146
[+]	T35		39	Diana LUNA		F	+2	74	72	-	-	146
[+]	T40		20	Wannasiri SIRISAMPANT		F	+3	72	75	-	-	147
[+]	T40		31	Kusuma MEECHAI		F*	+3	73	74	-	-	147
[+]	T40		39	Aditi ASHOK		F*	+3	74	73	-	-	147
[+]	T40		60	Kylie WALKER		F*	+3	75	72	-	-	147
[+]	T40		39	Yuting SHI		F	+3	74	73	-	-	147
[+]	T40		39	Supamas SANGCHAN		F*	+3	74	73	-	-	147
[+]	T40		60	Isabella RAMSAY		F*	+3	75	72	-	-	147
[+]	T47		60	Alexandra VILATTE		F*	+4	75	73	-	-	148
[+]	T47		31	Gwladys NOCERA		F	+4	73	75	-	-	148
[+]	T47		39	Connie CHEN		F	+4	74	74	-	-	148
[+]	T47		72	Panpan YAN		F*	+4	76	72	-	-	148
[+]	T47		31	Caroline MARTENS		F	+4	73	75	-	-	148
[+]	T47		60	Ruqing GUAN (AM)		F	+4	75	73	-	-	148
[+]	T47		39	Ainil BAKAR		F	+4	74	74	-	-	148
[+]	T54		60	Saraporn CHAMCHOI		F	+5	75	74	-	-	149
[+]	T54		90	Anne-Lise CAUDAL		F	+5	78	71	-	-	149
[+]	T54		72	Pamela PRETSWELL		F	+5	76	73	-	-	149
[+]	T54		39	Trish JOHNSON		F*	+5	74	75	-	-	149
[+]	T54		95	Yu LIU		F	+5	79	70	-	-	149
[+]	T54		31	Carly BOOTH		F	+5	73	76	-	-	149
[+]	T54		72	Hsin Ning YEH		F*	+5	76	73	-	-	149
[+]	T54		15	Thanuttra BOONRAKSASAT		F*	+5	71	78	-	-	149
The Cut
-	T62			Yan LIU (AM)		CUT	+6	77	73	-	-	150
-	T62			Tiranan YOOPAN		CUT	+6	72	78	-	-	150
-	T62			Punpaka PHUNTUMABAMRUNG		CUT	+6	76	74	-	-	150
-	T62			Tzu-Chi LIN		CUT	+6	76	74	-	-	150
-	T62			Ye Seul LEE		CUT	+6	72	78	-	-	150
-	T67			Jade SCHAEFFER		CUT	+7	74	77	-	-	151
-	T67			Ajira NUALRAKSA		CUT	+7	76	75	-	-	151
-	T67			Yan-Hong PAN		CUT	+7	74	77	-	-	151
-	T67			Justine DREHER		CUT	+7	75	76	-	-	151
-	T67			Wenqi ZHU (AM)		CUT	+7	76	75	-	-	151
-	T67			Sally WATSON		CUT	+7	76	75	-	-	151
-	T67			Ziqi YE		CUT	+7	76	75	-	-	151
-	T67			Jia Yun LI		CUT	+7	74	77	-	-	151
-	T67			Ling Ling TAN		CUT	+7	77	74	-	-	151
-	T67			Hsuan-Ping CHANG		CUT	+7	75	76	-	-	151
-	T77			Janya MORRAKOTPHAN		CUT	+8	74	78	-	-	152
-	T77			Stacey KEATING		CUT	+8	74	78	-	-	152
-	T77			Hannah BURKE		CUT	+8	75	77	-	-	152
-	T77			Hye In YEOM		CUT	+8	75	77	-	-	152
-	T77			Dan LI		CUT	+8	77	75	-	-	152
-	T77			Wenbo LIU (AM)		CUT	+8	78	74	-	-	152
-	T77			Yiyi LIU (AM)		CUT	+8	77	75	-	-	152
-	T84			Cuixia CHEN		CUT	+9	82	71	-	-	153
-	T84			Lucie ANDRE		CUT	+9	77	76	-	-	153
-	T84			Meng-Chu CHEN		CUT	+9	75	78	-	-	153
-	T84			Narisara KERDRIT		CUT	+9	74	79	-	-	153
-	T84			Szu-Han CHEN		CUT	+9	79	74	-	-	153
-	T89			Michelle KOH		CUT	+10	77	77	-	-	154
-	T89			Jienalin ZHANG		CUT	+10	74	80	-	-	154
-	T89			Titiya PLUCKSATAPORN		CUT	+10	76	78	-	-	154
-	T89			Amy BOULDEN		CUT	+10	73	81	-	-	154
-	T93			Ai-Chen KUO		CUT	+11	80	75	-	-	155
-	T93			Yeon Mi CHOI		CUT	+11	75	80	-	-	155
-	T95			Rebecca HUDSON		CUT	+12	81	75	-	-	156
-	T95			Christine WOLF		CUT	+12	82	74	-	-	156
-	T95			Shan PAN (AM)		CUT	+12	81	75	-	-	156
-	98			Liqing CHEN		CUT	+13	78	79	-	-	157
-	T99			Ying YU		CUT	+14	78	80	-	-	158
-	T99			Yu Yang Zhang		CUT	+14	77	81	-	-	158
-	101			Fabienne IN-ALBON		CUT	+19	83	80	-	-	163
-	102			Panuma VITAYAKONKOMOL		CUT	+20	83	81	-	-	164
-				Zi LI		W/D	E	78		-	-
-				Emily Kristine PEDERSEN		W/D	E			-	-
-				Bomi SUH		W/D	E	79		-	-
-				Pimpadsorn SANGKAGARO		W/D	E	79		-	-
-				Huei Ju SHIH		W/D	E			-	-