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Muruyama sets Kyoto pace
Daisuke Muruyama
The Japanese golfer sank six birdies against a lone bogey around the Joyo Country Club in Kyoto to move to seven under, one ahead of Korean Kim Hyung-sung with Prayad Marksaeng, Taichi Teshima and Toru Suzuki tied for third on five under.
Muruyama underlined a new fitness regime has been key to his resurgence so far this week.
"I've been lazy and have not worked hard enough in the past," he said.
"I will send photos of the meals that I am about to eat to my trainer over the phone and he'll tell me if it is too much or not. I feel fitter now, especially on this course which is hilly. I feel confident of winning,"
Kim carded a 68 and the 29-year-old felt his work on and around the greens was key to his solid effort.
"I didn't drive it well and my iron play was average," he admitted.
"But I putted really good and made most of my putts. My short game worked well and you need that on this course."
Prayad climbed into contention thanks to a scorching inward nine of 30 that underpinned his 67, while Suzuki's seven-under 64 was the joint-best round of the day.
Teshima, meanwhile, signed for a 66 to remain well-placed going into the weekend.
ALL THE SECOND ROUND RESULTS
(Par: 71)
135 Daisuke Maruyama (Jpn) 69 66
136 Kim Hyung-Sung (Kor) 68 68
137 Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 70 67, Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 71 66, Toru Suzuki (Jpn) 73 64
138 Liang Wen-Chong (Chn) 68 70, Toshinori Muto (Jpn) 74 64, Lam Chih Bing (Sin) 66 72
139 Azuma Yano (Jpn) 68 71, Rick Kulacz (Aus) 68 71
140 Katsumasa Miyamoto (Jpn) 67 73, Kim Kyung-Tae (Kor) 70 70, Matthew Griffin (Aus) 71 69, Yoshinori Fujimoto (Jpn) 70 70, Taigen Tsumagari (Jpn) 68 72, Toru Taniguchi (Jpn) 68 72, Unho Park (Aus) 71 69, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 72 68, Tetsuya Hiraguchi (Jpn) 66 74
141 Tomohiro Kondo (Jpn) 67 74, Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 68 73, Takashi Kanemoto (Jpn) 71 70, Gaganjeet Bhullar (Ind) 71 70, Kenichi Kuboya (Jpn) 69 72, Shigeru Nonaka (Jpn) 71 70, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 73 68, Noh Seung-Yul (Kor) 67 74
142 Hideto Tanihara (Jpn) 71 71, S.K. Ho (Kor) 71 71, Tadahiro Takayama (Jpn) 70 72, Yuji Igarashi (Jpn) 67 75, Ted Oh (Kor) 70 72, Tetsuji Hiratsuka (Jpn) 71 71
143 Scott Hend (Aus) 72 71, Makoto Inoue (Jpn) 74 69, Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 68 75, Mars Pucay (Phi) 73 70, Kiyoshi Miyazato (Jpn) 69 74, Komei Oda (Jpn) 68 75, Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 71 72
144 Chris Rodgers (Eng) 70 74, Jang Ik-Jae (Kor) 73 71, Kazuhiro Yamashita (Jpn) 75 69, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 72 72, Andrew Dodt (Aus) 73 71, Dinesh Chand (Fij) 73 71, Han Lee (USA) 73 71, Lu Wei-Chih (Tpe) 74 70, Gavin Flint (Aus) 70 74, Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn) 75 69
145 Kaname Yokoo (Jpn) 72 73, Nobuhiro Masuda (Jpn) 74 71, Shingo Katayama (Jpn) 71 74, Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) 73 72, Steven Lam (Hkg) 71 74, Michio Matsumura (Jpn) 71 74, David Smail (Nzl) 73 72, Sushi Ishigaki (Jpn) 73 72
146 Mitchell Brown (Aus) 72 74, Lin Wen-Tang (Tpe) 73 73, Jun Kikuchi (Jpn) 74 72, Angelo Que (Phi) 74 72, Marcus Both (Aus) 74 72
Missed the cut:
147 Akio Sadakata (Jpn) 73 74, Hiroyuki Fujita (Jpn) 77 70, Michael Wright (Aus) 74 73, Iain Steel (Mal) 71 76, Taichiro Kiyota (Jpn) 68 79, Tatsuhiko Takahashi (Jpn) 75 72, Artemio Murakami (Phi) 74 73, Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha) 75 72, Ryuichi Oda (Jpn) 76 71, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 75 72
148 Lee Sung (Kor) 76 72, Kunihiro Kamii (Jpn) 71 77, Shintaro Kai (Jpn) 72 76, Kim Jong-Duk (Kor) 73 75, Yasuharu Imano (Jpn) 72 76, Darren Beck (Aus) 73 75, Guido Van Der Valk (Ned) 71 77, Kazuhiko Hosokawa (Jpn) 69 79, Norio Shinozaki (Jpn) 74 74, Bryan Saltus (USA) 75 73, Steven Conran (Aus) 74 74, Frankie Minoza (Phi) 74 74, Shinichi Yokota (Jpn) 80 68
149 Tao Huang (Tpe) 78 71, Ryutaro Nagano (Jpn) 75 74, Toyokazu Fujishima (Jpn) 78 71, Mitsuhiro Tateyama (Jpn) 75 74, Airil Rizman (Mal) 76 73, David Gleeson (Aus) 80 69, Hidemasa Hoshino (Jpn) 74 75, Hung Chien-Yao (Tpe) 73 76, Chen Ming-Chuan (Tpe) 76 73
150 Masaya Tomida (Jpn) 77 73, Kim Meen-Whee (Kor) 76 74, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 76 74, Toshimitsu Izawa (Jpn) 74 76
151 Keisuke Otawa (Jpn) 72 79, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 73 78, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 75 76, Anthony Kang (USA) 72 79, Hiroshi Iwata (Jpn) 74 77
152 Adam Blyth (Aus) 75 77, Masamichi Ito (Jpn) 73 79, Hiroo Kawai (Jpn) 76 76, Jason Knutzon (USA) 76 76, Thanyakorn Khrongpha (Tha) 74 78, Mamoru Osanai (Jpn) 74 78, Scott Barr (Aus) 75 77
153 Ben Leong (Mal) 78 75
154 Yui Ueda (Jpn) 72 82, Tony Carolan (Aus) 81 73, Somkiat Srisanga (Tha) 77 77, Takao Nogami (Jpn) 75 79, Adam Groom (Aus) 78 76
155 Prom Meesawat (Tha) 79 76, James Kamte (Rsa) 75 80, Digvijay Singh (Ind) 74 81
157 Yuki Usami (Jpn) 77 80, Kane Webber (Aus) 76 81
158 Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 81 77, Wu Wen-Ting (Tpe) 77 81
159 Koki Idoki (Jpn) 76 83
162 Shivaram Shrestha (Nep) 80 82, Yutaro Kuga (Jpn) 81 81
165 Mithun Perera (Sri) 75 90
RTD: Juvic Pagunsan (Phi) 79
WD: Bae Sang-Moon (Kor) 81, Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 82
