Jeev stays in contention
with a one-under 71

Ace Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh returned a one-under 71 and stayed in contention for his first title on the Japanese PGA Tour at the end of the second day of the 120-million-yen Sun Chlorella Classic, being played at the par-72 Sapporo Bay Golf Club in Hokkaido, Japan.

According to information, the Hero Honda Motors-sponsored Jeev was just four strokes behind the leader, Hideki Kase of Japan.

Kase shot a brilliant nine-under 63 to aggregate 11-under 133.

There was a three-way tie for the second place at 10-under 134 between American Christian Pena, Aussie Brendon Jones and Naomichi Ozaki of Japan.

Jeev was seven-under 137 after two rounds and tied for the 12th place along with three others. The cut was applied at two-under 142 and 66 players made it to the weekend rounds.

Jeev started from the tenth tee and was two-over with bogeys on the 12th and 14th holes. He recovered thereafter and made birdies on the 15th, 18th, first and the ninth holes, and had one more bogey - on the par-3 sixth where he made an uncharacteristic three-putt.

SCORES (after 36 holes): 133 _ Hideki Kase (70,63); 134 _ Christian Pena (67,67), Naomichi Ozaki (67,67), Brendan Jones (66,68); 135 _ Tze Chung Chen (69,66), Zhang Lian-wei (67,68), Yoshimitsu Fuzukawa (68,67); 136 _ Tsuneyuki Nakajima (68,68), Tetsuji Hiratsuka (68,68), Toru Suzuki (69,67), 68 _ Toru Taniguchi (67,69); 137 _ Jeev Milkha Singh (66,71), Mitsuhiro Tateyama (69,68), Richard Blackwell (68,69), Brad Andrews (65,72)

Yesterday's report
Jeev placed second after six-under 66 round