Choi out to stop Oosthuizen

KOREAN KJ Choi will try to bridge a seven-year gap in Stockholm this weekend – and with it stop Open champion Louis Oosthuizen from making a piece of European Tour history.

No winner of the Claret Jug has ever gone on to lift another trophy on the circuit a week later, but Oosthuizen still has that chance after adding a two-under-par 70 to his opening 67 at the Nordea Scandinavian Masters.

However Choi, whose only previous victory in Europe was the 2003 German Masters, is two ahead of the South African at halfway, with Swede Richard Johnson sandwiched between them.