Annika Sorenstam's LPGA Tour farewell came to a shuddering halt when she missed the cut at the season-ending ADT Championship on Friday. A four-time winner of the elite event, the world number two slid to a three-over-par 75 in the second round at Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach for a five-over tally of 149. Only 16 players in the 32-strong field advanced to Saturday's third round and Sorenstam missed out after finishing in a seven-way tie for 18th. After ending the first round six off the pace, the Swede needed to make up ground on the leaders but double-bogeyed the second and bogeyed the ninth to reach the turn in three over. Although she birdied the par-four 10th, she dropped another shot at the 16th to end the day a distant 10 strokes behind the pacesetting Katherine Hull of Australia. Hull carded a bogey-free 71 to hold a one-shot lead over American Angela Stanford (67). A three-time champion on the LPGA Tour this season, Sorenstam announced in May she would be quitting golf at the end of the year. She will play in the Lexus Cup in Singapore later this month before bringing down the curtain on her competitive career at the Dec. 11-14 Dubai Ladies Masters. Sorenstam has been the dominant figure in women's golf for the past decade and has piled up 72 LPGA Tour victories including 10 major titles. The 37-year-old wants to start a family and plans to pursue business interests including her golf academy in Florida, her charitable foundation and course design projects. Oosthuizen shares lead South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen fired a sizzling eight-under 62 to grab a share of the lead after the second round at the $2.5 million Hong Kong Open on Friday. The 26-year-old Oosthuizen carded eight birdies in a near-flawless round to finish a stroke shy of the course record and join Britons Oliver Wilson and Oliver Fisher, and Chawalit Plaphol of Thailand, on 132. “Yeah, it was good. It could have been – I don't want to say it could have been more, but I played well. I hit 17 greens in regulation and I made some putts,” Oosthuizen told reporters. Wilson notched up six birdies on the way to a four-under 66, but squandered the outright lead with a bogey on the last. After carding a patient first-round 68, eight-time European number one Colin Montgomerie attacked the greens with gusto on Friday, dropping a single stroke on the way to a six-birdie 65 to lie a shot off the pace. Montgomerie, whose form woes have seen him tumble out of the world top 100 this year, joined Swede Johan Edfors, Australian Marcus Fraser, round one joint leader Richard Sterne of South Africa and Italy's Francesco Molinari in the clubhouse on 133. Lin Wen-tang of Taiwan and Indian number one Jeev Milkha Singh lie two strokes off the leaders with Britain's Rory McIlroy on 134. Twice former major champion John Daly remains in striking distance of the leaders two strokes further off the pace in a clutch of players including Germany's Bernhard Langer and Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand.
