Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (25 October) – France, with conservative and steady play, overcame a five-stroke deficit and tied the USA for the lead at 2-under-par 286 after the second day of the 2002 World Amateur Team Championships at Saujana Golf & Country Club.

“We told our players that you have to manipulate the course,” said French coach Anne Leconiat. “You can't be aggressive.”

Using a 3-under-par 69 from Gregory Bourdy, which included five birdies and two bogeys, and a 3-over-par 75 from Eric Chaudouet, France shot even-par 144. Bourdy was tied for the low individual round of day with Mao-Chang Sung of Chinese Taipei, Tim Wilkinson of New Zealand and Thomas Ortner of Austria.

The USA, which began day with a five-stroke lead over France, dropped all of its cushion on the Bunga Raya Course. Hunter Mahan, with an even-par 72, and Ricky Barnes, with a 5-over-par 77, registered the counting scores for the Americans.

“It was a tough day,” said USA captain O. Gordon Brewer Jr. “Hunter (Mahan), fortunately, kept us in it. He's been very steady.”

“Our game plan is that we got away with a terrible day (Friday),” said Barnes, the 2002 U.S. Amateur champion. “It's not like we're in 20th place and we have 10 shots to make up.”

Following France and the USA, Argentina was three strokes back at 1-over-par 289. Tied for fourth and four shots behind were Austria and England at 2-over-par 290.

The Austrians made the largest move up the leaderboard with a jump of 14 spots on the merits of the day's best total of 4-under-par 140. Slovakia, notably, while near the bottom of the standings, managed a 20-stroke improvement from the first to second day (179-159).

The field will be divided in half and the top portion will play the Bunga Raya Course Saturday and the Palm Course Sunday. The bottom half of the standings will reverse that order of play.

For complete results, visit www.wagc.org and click on the Golfstat icon. Visit www.wagc.org/pix for downloadable photos.

Conducted by the World Amateur Golf Council, which comprises national governing bodies of golf in more than 100 countries, the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur competition, which is rotated among three geographic zones: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African.

Each team, which has two or three players, plays 18 holes of stroke play for four days. In each round, the total of the two lowest scores by players from each team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72 holes) total is the team's score for the championship.

Results
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Results of Friday's (25 October) second round of the World Amateur Team Championship, played at the Saujana Golf & Country Club (Palm Course: par 36-36--72, 6,343 meters, 6,939 yards; Bunga Raya Course: par 36-36—72, 6,162 meters, 6,742 yards):

1 1 Palm Course; 2 Bunga Raya Course
Place Team Scoring Rounds Total Score
To par Thru Today 1 2
T1 France 2 -2 F E 142 144 286
T1 USA 2 -2 F +5 137 149 286
3 Argentina 1 +1 F +2 143 146 289
T4 Austria 1 +2 F -4 150 140 290
T4 England 1 +2 F +3 143 147 290
T6 Chin. Taipei 1 +3 F -3 150 141 291
T6 Finland 2 +3 F +4 143 148 291
T6 New Zealand 2 +3 F -2 149 142 291
T6 Philippines 1 +3 F +1 146 145 291
10 Germany 2 +4 F E 148 144 292
11 Wales 2 +6 F -1 151 143 294
T12 Australia 2 +7 F -1 152 143 295
T12 Ireland 2 +7 F E 151 144 295
T12 Spain 1 +7 F +3 148 147 295
T12 Thailand 1 +7 F +8 143 152 295
T16 Colombia 1 +8 F +9 143 153 296
T16 Denmark 1 +8 F +6 146 150 296
T16 Korea 2 +8 F +8 144 152 296
T16 Malaysia 2 +8 F +5 147 149 296
T16 Switzerland 1 +8 F +1 151 145 296
21 Pakistan 2 +9 F +5 148 149 297
T22 Brazil 1 +10 F +4 150 148 298
T22 Japan 2 +10 F -1 155 143 298
T22 Norway 2 +10 F +4 150 148 298
T22 Sweden 1 +10 F +10 144 154 298
26 Scotland 2 +11 F +5 150 149 299
27 Italy 1 +12 F +6 150 150 300
T28 India 2 +13 F +2 155 146 301
T28 Puerto Rico 2 +13 F +7 150 151 301
T30 Netherlands 1 +14 F +8 150 152 302
T30 Portugal 1 +14 F +14 144 158 302
T30 South Africa 1 +14 F +3 155 147 302
33 Venezuela 1 +15 F +9 150 153 303
34 Canada 2 +16 F +3 157 147 304
T35 Chile 2 +17 F +1 160 145 305
T35 Czech Rep. 2 +17 F +6 155 150 305
T35 Iceland 2 +17 F +11 150 155 305
T38 Paraguay 1 +19 F +11 152 155 307
T38 Slovenia 2 +19 F +5 158 149 307
T40 Ecuador 1 +20 F +11 153 155 308
T40 El Salvador 2 +20 F +5 159 149 308
42 Hong Kong, 2 +22 F +10 156 154 310
China
43 Zimbabwe 1 +23 F +12 155 156 311
T44 Costa Rica 2 +24 F +1 167 145 312
T44 Guatemala 1 +24 F +16 152 160 312
T44 Swaziland 1 +24 F +16 152 160 312
T47 Bolivia 2 +25 F +2 167 146 313
T47 Mexico 2 +25 F +8 161 152 313
T49 Bermuda 2 +27 F +12 159 156 315
T49 Singapore 2 +27 F +14 157 158 315
51 Turkey 1 +28 F +15 157 159 316
52 Belgium 1 +32 F +15 161 159 320
53 Egypt 1 +34 F +17 161 161 322
54 Greece 1 +39 F +16 167 160 327
55 Russian Fed. 2 +41 F +19 166 163 329
56 Lebanon 2 +43 F +23 164 167 331
57 Panama 1 +49 F +27 166 171 337
58 Slovakia 2 +50 F +15 179 159 338
59 Estonia 1 +56 F +27 173 171 344
60 Latvia 1 +64 F +33 175 177 352
61 Croatia 2 +74 F +32 186 176 362
62 Islamic Rep. 2 +78 F +36 186 180 366
of Iran
63 Saudi Arabia 1 +79 F +42 181 186 367

Top 20 Individual Scores
11 1 Palm Course; 2 Bunga Raya Course
Place Player Team Scoring Rounds Total
Score
To par thru Today 1 2
1 Gregory Bourdy 2 France -5 F -3 70 69 139
2 Hunter Mahan 2 USA -4 F E 68 72 140
3 Matias Anselmo 1 Argentina -3 F -1 70 71 141
4 Angelo Que 1 Philippines -2 F -2 72 70 142
5 Camilo Villegas 1 Colombia -1 F +3 68 75 143
T6 Marcus Fraser 2 Australia E F -2 74 70 144
T6 Shahid Javed Khan 2Pakistan E F E 72 72 144
T6 Hugo Santos 1 Portugal E F +3 69 75 144
T6 Mao-Chang Sung 1 Chin. Tai. E F -3 75 69 144
T6 Michael Thannhauser 2 Germany E F E 72 72 144
T11 Jeppe Huldal 1 Denmark +1 F +2 71 74 145
T11 Eddie Lee 2 New Zealand +1 F +1 72 73 145
T11 Janne Mommo 2 Finland +1 F +1 72 73 145
T11 Colm Moriarty 2 Ireland +1 F -1 74 71 145
T11 Par Nilsson 1 Sweden +1 F +3 70 75 145
T11 Gary Wolstenholme 1 England +1 F -1 74 71 145
T17 Ricky Barnes 2 USA +2 F +5 69 77 146
T17 Thomas Sundstrom 2 Finland +2 F +3 71 75 146
T17 Tim Wilkinson 2 New Zealand +2 F -3 77 69 146
20 Benjamin Alvarado 2 Chile +3 F -1 76 71 147