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Que blitzes way to 1-shot lead

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Angelo Que scorched the Laguna National Golf and Country Club with a bogey-free six-under par 66 yesterday to wrest a one-stroke lead over Malaysian Danny Chia halfway through the Laguna National Asean Championship in Singapore.

The long-hitting Que, who sizzled with a 65 Thursday, frolicked on the rain-softened fairways and came out with a flawless round by hitting superb approach shots and making six putts for birdies to seize control.

“The greens here are very soft so I can play aggressive shots and attack with my approach shots,” said Que. “It is quite a short course and I can hit all the par-5s in two. I am also making some putts so it’s going well.”

On a day of under-par scoring with preferred lies played, Singapore’s rising amateur star Quincy Quek turned in the day’s best score of 64, an eagle-spiked, bogey-less round, to lie three strokes off Que in a tie with another Filipino Cassius Casas.

The comebacking Casas, who used to dominate the Philippine golf circuit, matched Que’s six-under card to pool a 36-hole aggregate of 134.

Chia, who showed the way with a 64 in the first round of this event serving as the third leg of the Asean Golf Tour, slowed down with a 68 for a 132.

Que, the former two-time amateur champion who turned pro in 2003, is chasing a second victory after scoring a breakthrough win in the inaugural Vietnam Masters of the Asian Tour in 2004.

“Things have not gone as well as I had hoped after that first win but I am being patient and a win here would do wonders for my confidence,” said Que.

ANGELO QUE

ASEAN GOLF TOUR

FILIPINO CASSIUS CASAS

LAGUNA NATIONAL ASEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

LAGUNA NATIONAL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB

MALAYSIAN DANNY CHIA

MASTERS OF THE ASIAN TOUR

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