Park Sang-hyun (right) shot a seven-under par 65 on Friday to grab a share of the lead with fellow Korean Kim Bi-o and Indonesian Rory Hie after two rounds of the SK Telecom Open on Jeju Island. The trio are eight-under with two-round totals of 136 on the 7,361-yard (6,735-metre) Pinx Golf Club course, the fourth stop on OneAsia's 2012 schedule and offering a purse of one billion Korean won (around $900,000).

They lie two ahead of Korean Kang Min-woong and New Zealander Mark Brown, and a further stroke in front of a handful of players including internationals Hu Mu from China and American Garrett Sapp.

Queensland's Daniel Nisbet has been added to Golf Australia's National Squad at Tier 2 level. The Caboolture Golf Club member is ranked Number 1 in Australia on the Men's Rankings and inside the top 50 on the World Amateur Rankings. In January he finished runner up at the Australian Amateur Championship before winning the Lake Macquarie Amateur at Belmont Golf Club.

Nisbet is one of a travelling party of Australia's leading amateurs who leave for Antalya in Turkey on Saturday for preparations in advance of the World Amateur Team Championships from 27 September -10 October.

Many are in shock as several top-seeded players were knocked off the bracket today at the Sybase Match Play Championship. A few of these matches include Jodi Ewart's 3&1 victory over defending Sybase Match Play champ Suzann Pettersen, Jennifer Johnson's 3&1 win over Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome's 2&1 loss to Ryann O'Toole and Mariajo Uribe taking out Ai Miyazato on the last hole. Surviving the upset bug was Rolex Rankings No. 1 Yani Tseng.

Tseng had her hands full during Thursday's first round match against Jeong Jang. After Tseng got off to an early 4 up lead thru six holes it look as if the number one seed would have an early path into the second round. Jang was determined to put up a fight and that is just what she did. Jang, a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour clawed her way back to get the match to even thru 15 holes. Tseng then pared 16 to take a 1 up lead and after the two tied 17, the match was forced to 18.

Martin Laird's presence at Castle Stuart Golf Links from July 12-15 represents a huge boost to Scotland's chances of producing the first home winner of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open since Colin Montgomerie in 1999. Arizona-based Laird is the highest ranked Scot in the Official World Golf Ranking at Number 31 and the 29 year old is relishing a return to Castle Stuart and an attempt to win one of the titles he covets among the most important in the game.

Laird, who has been a global golf ambassador for Aberdeen Asset Management since the beginning of the year, may play most of his golf on the US PGA Tour, where he won the 2009 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and the 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational, but he is a proud Scotsman who loves nothing more than returning to his homeland to perform in front his own people.