Rose and Garcia lead way

Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia are tied for the lead at the halfway point of the Thailand Golf Championship in Bangkok.

The Englishman, who started the day one shot off overnight leader Alex Cejka, carded a second round 68 scoring three birdies, one bogey and an eagle on his way to finishing on -11. It was a slightly more difficult test for the US Open Champion, who failed to match the excellent 65 on Thursday and the 33-year-old admitted he found it tough. "Had a bit of a hot spell from nine, 10, 11 and 12," he said. "Other than that, I found the greens more difficult this afternoon, a bit more grainy, more than yesterday." However, one person who was revelling in the conditions was Garcia who lit up the course on Friday, with a hole-in-one at the par three eighth the highlight of a superb seven under par 65. The Spaniard produced a fantastic bogey-free display to catapult up the leaderboard into a share of the lead and the charismatic European expressed his delight at the second round performance. "The hole in one was a little bit of an extra bonus," he said. "I got lucky with the contours on the green. Making a hole in one is always a funny and amazing feeling," Garcia added. "We can't see the hole from the tee because the pin is on the tier. I was calling it to go in, one of those things that you do, not really thinking it's going to go in. But I've seen the past couple of years guys hit over there on the right and it comes quite close to the pin. "I was trying to hit it probably about five yards farther left than what I actually hit it but when it started rolling down the hill, I thought, you know, it's probably going to end up close." India's Anirban Lahiri, who hit a majestic 64, France's Alexander Levy and Germany's Cejka are all two shots behind on -9, with birthday boy Rickie Fowler a further one stroke behind on -8 after carding a round of 66.