Randhawa, Sujjan tied for sixth place
Indian golfer Jyoti Randhawa was unable to hold on to his fine start of three-under on the front nine and finished with a battling one-under 71 in the second round of the $400,000 Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters on the Asian Tour.
The former Asian Tour number was still tied sixth, but he was joined by compatriot Sujjan Singh (66), who had the day’s second best card to move to six-under 138.
Randhawa and Sujjan were two behind Thai teenager Panuphol Pittayarat (65), who snatched the surprise halfway lead after an impressive seven-under 65 on Thursday. The young Thai, nicknamed ‘Coconut’ by his family members, overcame the flu bug to break away from a bunched leaderboard at Kota Permai Golf and Country Club with a seven-birdie round.
Overnight leader Joonas Granberg of Finland stumbled to a 75 to lie tied second with Australian Marcus Both (67) and two other upcoming Thais, Panuwat Muenlek (69) and Namchok Tantipokhakul (67).
Young Rashid Khan and Himmat Singh brought in rounds of 71 and 70 respectively to be tied 23rd at 140, while Gaurav Ghei (72) was 33rd at 141 and Gaganjeet Bhullar (72) and Anirban Lahiri (74) just made the cut at 143.
Manav Jaini (71-74), Ashok Kumar (68-77), Chiragh Kumar (71-75), Vikrant Chopra (75-73), Mandeo Pathania (73-75), Abhishek Jha (76-73), Vinod Kumar (77-74) and Firoz Ali (77-79) missed the cut.
“I think the 'want' got me today. I was playing well. Then I started to want more. I wanted to close out the tournament. I got ahead of myself and made three bogeys. It was a catch up after that and I couldn't make any putts," Randhawa said.
