<div id="subtitle">Choi, Tseng lead after 2nd round of KOLON Championship</div><div><p>Na Yeon Choi of South Korea shot a 71 and Taiwan's Yani Tseng had a 70 to share the lead at 5-under par after a wet and windy second round of the LPGA Tour's KOLON Championship on Saturday.</p><p>Choi and Tseng finished at 139 and were among seven players to go under par for the round as poor weather forced play to be suspended for almost an hour.</p><p>The 22-year-old Choi led for most of the round before returning from the rain delay and bogeyed the par-3 17th hole to allow Tseng a share of the lead.</p><p>Sweden's Maria Hjorth (72) and South Korean Jimin Kang (73) were tied at 4 under for the tournament.</p><p>First round co-leaders Meaghan Francella and Anna Grzebien of the United States dropped six strokes and 10 strokes, respectively, to fall to the middle of the pack.</p><p>But the challenging weather didn't stop Choi, who made four birdies on the front nine before weather forced the suspension of play.</p><p>"My putter was working on the front nine but it was hard to focus as the wind and rain got stronger on the back nine," Choi said.</p><p>Tseng and South Korea's In-Kyung Kim were the only players to shoot a 70 for the low-round of the day.</p><p>More inclement weather is forecast for Sunday's final round. The 2007 tournament was shortened to 36 holes due to unplayable course conditions.</p><p>Choi earned her first victory on the LPGA Tour at the Samsung World Championships last month after finishing 11th on the LPGA money list last year in her rookie season.</p><p>Choi also has four wins on the Korean LPGA Tour, which is co-sanctioning this week's tournament.</p><p>Five Koreans rounded out the top five at 3 under; Inbee Park, Eun-Hee Ji, Ran Hong, Song-Hee Kim, and Bo-Kyung Kim.</p><p>The shot of the day went to Jiyai Shin of South Korea. The LPGA money leader holed a shot from the bunker on the sixth hole after pulling her approach shot left. Shin was at 1 under.</p><p>Lorena Ochoa was 10 strokes off the lead after a second-round 77, tied for her second-worst round of the year.</p><p>The LPGA Tour moves to Japan next week for the Mizuno Classic.</p><p>(This version CORRECTS country for Grzebien.)</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=62357308&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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