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DAYTONA BEACH , Fla. , Nov. 29, 2007 – LPGA Tour rookie Jane Park (65-70=137, -9) maintained her first-round lead at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament on Thursday, as she carded a second-round 2-under-par 70 to climb to a three-stroke lead over 10-year Tour veteran Kelli Kuehne (67-71=138, -6). Park and Kuehne remain in first and second places, respectively, after 36 holes of play at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The 90-hole tournament is staged at LPGA International, where 137 players will play the Champions and Legends courses twice, hoping to be among the top-70 to advance to Sunday. After Sunday's final round, the top-17 finishers will earn exempt status for the 2008 Tour season, while the next 35 will earn conditional status.

Playing on the Legends Course, Park quickly recovered from a bogey on the first hole with an ensuing birdie on the next. She notched back-to-back birdies on holes four and five before carding her second bogey of the day on the par-4, 369-yard eighth hole. After making the turn, the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur champion clinched her fourth and final birdie on the 12 th hole.

“A 70 is definitely not 65, but I'm very pleased with my score. I was able to pull out another sub-par round, and overall, I'm very pleased with how I played,” Park said. “I think of it as one day at a time. After I shot 65, I quickly erased it from mind. You have to come out with the mindset that everyone starts at even-par. Tomorrow I am looking to do the same thing I've been doing. It's just one shot at a time. I want to clean the slate and go out there and get another sub-par round.”

Kuehne carded a 1-under-par 71 on Thursday to tie for the lead after coming into the round two-strokes behind first-round leader Jane Park. Kuehne, who played on the Legends Course, recorded three birdies to go along with two bogeys on the day. After bogeying the par-5, 527-yard second hole, she made birdies on holes five and seven to make the turn at 1-under. On the back nine, she birdied the 10 th hole and followed with a bogey on the 12 th, but played even on the remaining six holes to finish the day with her second consecutive sub-par round.

“I've had some really good prep work coming into this event. For the past seven weeks, I've been on a mission to get ready for this, and I feel like I'm ready. Hopefully, this turns out the way that I planned for, but I'll accept my fate whatever may come of it,” Kuehne said. “Tracy Phillips is on my bag this week, and he caddied for me in 1999 and 2000. He's been coaching me for 17 years, and when I won the U.S. Girls' Junior. It's good to have him back this week.”

Daytona Beach local Tracy Hanson (73-66=139, -5) went bogey free on the Legends Course en route to firing a field-low 66, and jumped from a tie for 45 th to a share of third place with Hee Young Park (72-67=139).

“I played patient golf. I missed a couple of greens early and had three or four key up and downs for par. I putted really well, had a lot of birdie chances and made a good portion of them,” Hanson said. “It helps that I've played the course a lot and I'm from the area. I probably saw the lines a lot better than some of the other players.”

Sarah Lynn Sargent, Carolina Llano, Meredith Duncan, Hannah Jun and Ashleigh Simon are tied for fifth place at 4-under-par 140.

The players have been split between LPGA International Champions and Legends courses and will be repaired by scores for the third round based on the course they started on the first round. The new groups will play the third and fourth rounds together before the Saturday cut to the top-70 and ties.

Two LPGA Sectional Qualifying Tournaments in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and Venice, Fla., were held to help determine the field for the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament. The top-30 finishers and ties from each sectional—31 from Rancho Mirage; 34 from Venice—advanced to the final stage and join 62 current LPGA Tour members who are trying to improve or retain their playing status for 2008. The field is completed by the eligible players who finished sixth through 15 th on the final 2007 Duramed Futures Tour money list.

Consistent with the LPGA's history of showcasing the very best players from around the world, the 137-player field features 62 international players from 22 countries outside the United States. South Korea is represented by the most international players with 16, followed by Australia (10), Sweden (5) Canada (4) and Thailand (4). Remaining countries represented include England (3), South Africa (2), Spain (2); and one player represents each of the following countries: Argentina; China; France; India; Japan; Malaysia; Mexico; Paraguay; Russia; Scotland; Taiwan; and Venezuela.

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