TARLAC – Japanese Keita Sudo carded a second straight 70 while Choo Tze Huang of Singapore slowed down with a 71 as they shared the clubhouse lead halfway through the $100,000 ICTSI Luisita Championship at the Luisita Golf and Country Club here yesterday.

With half of the starting 107-player starting field, including opening round leader Thai Namchok Tantipokhakul, still to complete their second round play, Sudo and Choo took the provisional lead at four-under 140, two ahead of Arnold Villacencio and Enrico Gallardo, who pooled identical 142s even as newly crowned Philippine Open champion Clyde Mondilla broke par 71 to tie Korean Jun Min Seok and Laos’ Thammasack Bouahom at 143.

Keita Sudo

Deng Shan Koh, also of Singapore, turned in a 73 for joint eighth at 144 with Tony Lascuña, who hobbled with a 73, while Luke Trocado of South Africa, Spain’s Marcos Pastor and local ace Mhark Fernando rallied to assemble identical 145s.

Trocado turned in the most impressive card in hot conditions at the Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed layout.

Tags: Arnold Villacencio , Choo Tze Huang , Clyde Mondilla , ICTSI Luisita Championship , Keita Sudo , Marcos Pastor , Mhark Fernando , Namchok Tantipokhakul , Philippine Open champion , Robert Trent Jones