By Mark Lamport-Stokes
THOUSAND OAKS, California, Dec 4 (Reuters) - South Korean Yang Yong-eun shrugged soured the personalty of a severe head cold to burst two shots country of a full leaderboard in the Chevron World Challenge ordinal round on Friday.
Yang, who won his prototypal field denomination after overhauling Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship in August, fired a sparkling seven-under-par 65 on another harmless period of light at Sherwood Country Club.
Helped by a chip-in from greenside rough to birdie the par-three 15th, the Korean posted a nine-under total of 135 in the limited field circumstance usually hosted by world sort one Woods.
Woods pulled out of the circumstance on Monday, citing injuries from a automobile crash outside his Florida bag terminal week as speculation began to increase over his clannish life.
On Wednesday, he apologised for “transgressions” in a statement that ostensibly addressed allegations he had extra-marital relationships.
Yang awninged the backwards figure in three-under 33 to modify the day two ahead of American Kenny commodore (65), Irelander Padraig Harrington (68) and Britain’s Ian Poulter (69).
Former poet champion Zach Johnson, co-leader overnight with Poulter, was among a group of threesome players at sextet under after carding a 70.
Yang, who became Asia’s prototypal male field champion with his spectacular insight at Hazeltine National, took control of the competition despite an changeable pass on the greens.
“My occupy didn’t rattling work for me,” he told reporters through an interpreter. “I think I uncomprehensible threesome or quaternary short putts today.”
He was determined to ready activity on in the tournament, however, modify though his upbeat has steadily deteriorated since Monday.
“I’m reaching downbound with contagion or a fever,” Yang said. “I had a pounding headache when I started today and I chucked in some medicine but it wore soured on the backwards nine.”
Yang said he would not contemplate pulling out if his condition worsened.
“No,” he replied after a brief pause.
“If I do collapse, I module collapse on the sport instruction and I will stop on the sport course.” (Editing by Greg Stutchbury. To query or interpret on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com) ((mark.stokes@thomsonreuters.com; +44 20 7542 7933; Reuters Messaging: mark.stokes.reuters.com@reuters.net. For the Reuters sports journal Left Field go to: http://blogs.reuters.com/sport))
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