LITTLE PROSPERS BUT LEE MISSES

FIRST EURO TOUR CUT

IN SOUTH AFRICA

While Scot Euan Little has prospered in the South Africa Open championship at Pearl Valley on the Western Cape, rookie Europe Tour card-holder Craig Lee has missed his first cut in an event under the auspices of the European Tour.
Little, from Stranraer, escaped with a par-72 from the wild wind that blew a lot of first-round scores into the 80s and he had another 72 today for 144 to be in joint fourth position at the halfway stage, only two shots behind the pace-making South African, James Kington (73-69).

Little birdied the second, fifth, 11th and 13th and had cancelling-out bogeys at the sixth, seventh, 12th and 14th.
Lee, pictured right, on the other hand, could not make up the ground lost with that wind-rossed 81 on Thursday - but with only hole to play in the second round he did have a chance to squeeze into the qualifiers for the last two rounds.
A par 5 at the 18th would have given the Stirling man a par 72 and a 36-hole tally of 153. That would have made the cut with nothing to spare. Sadly, Lee ran up a double bogey 7 at the last for a 74 and a two-round total of 155.
In the first round he had a double bogey 6 at the second.

Peter Whiteford from Kirkcaldy did make the cut despite failing to break 80 in his first round. A 71 today got him under the barrier on 151. Alan McLean also made it through, also with an 80 followed by a 71.

David Drysdale was a third Scot to be eliminated. He had a 36-hole total of 159 with an 82 and a a 77.

South African Open Championship
Pearl Valley, Western Cape.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
142 James Kington (Rsa) 73 69.
143 Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 72 71, Kyron Sullivan (Wales) 72 71.
144 Ulrich Van den Berg (Rsa) 71 73, Euan Little (Scotland) 72 72.
145 Oliver Wilson 76 69, Greg Norman (Aus) 75 70, Neil Schietekat (Rsa) 72 73, N Henning (Rsa) 74 71, R Rock 70 75, D Clarke 72 73.

146 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 75 71, Craig Lile (Rsa) 73 73, Andrew McArthur 72 74, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 74 72
147 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 71 76, Ernie Els (Rsa) 77 70
148 Gary Boyd 72 76, Ross Wellington (Rsa) 76 72, Brett Liddle (Rsa) 77 71, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 74 74
149 Alex Haindl (Rsa) 71 78, Garry Houston 76 73, Anton Haig (Rsa) 75 74, Magnus Carlsson (Swe) 76 73, Paul Waring 73 76, Joost Luiten (Ned) 82 67, George Coetzee (Rsa) 73 76, Peter Lawrie 74 75, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 75 74, Ryan Tipping (Rsa) 74 75, Tim Clark (Rsa) 75 74, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 75 74
150 Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 76 74, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 79 71, Garth Mulroy (Rsa) 80 70, Warren Abery (Rsa) 76 74, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 78 72, Alan Michell (Rsa) 76 74
151 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 76 75, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 77 74, Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 77 74, Peter Whiteford 81 70, Alan McLean 80 71, Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa) 74 77, Simon Dyson 75 76, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 78 73, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 79 72, Lee S James 76 75, Chris Williams (Rsa) 77 74, David Dixon 76 75, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 80 71, Miles Tunnicliff 77 74
152 Lee Slattery 76 76, Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 79 73, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 74 78, Keith Horne (Rsa) 77 75, Birgir Hafthorsson (Ice) 79 73
153 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 80 73, Richard Bland 76 77, Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 75 78, Luis Claverie (Spa) 79 74, Jean Hugo (Rsa) 78 75, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 80 73, Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 79 74, David Frost (Rsa) 73 80, Michiel Bothma (Rsa) 85 68, Sam Walker 80 73, Grant Muller (Rsa) 78 75
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154 David Carter 78 76, Marcel Siem (Ger) 80 74, Mark Murless (Rsa) 81 73, Vaughn Groenewald (Rsa) 77 77, Ross McGowan 82 72
155 Craig Lee 81 74, Colm Moriarty 81 74, Martin Wiegele (Aut) 78 77, Bobby Lincoln (Rsa) 80 75, Chris Swanepoel (Rsa) 82 73, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 79 76, Omar Sandys (Rsa) 77 78, John Bickerton 77 78, Sion Bebb 76 79, Pedro Linhart (Spa) 78 77, Dean Lambert (Rsa) 79 76, Phillip Archer 81 74, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 73 82
156 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 83 73, Scott Dunlap (USA) 80 76, Ross Fisher 77 79, Stuart Clark 85 71, Branden Grace (Rsa) 81 75, Andre Cruse (Rsa) 81 75, Iain Pyman 80 76, Christiaan Basson (Rsa) 77 79, Thabang Simon (Rsa) 81 75, Lindani Ndwandwe (Rsa) 83 73, David Hewan (Rsa) 79 77
157 Ian Hutchings (Rsa) 76 81, Johan Du buisson (Rsa) 81 76, Josh Cunliffe (Rsa) 80 77, Stuart Manley 81 76, Doug McGuigan 83 74, Gary Lockerbie 82 75, Rory McIlroy 83 74, Werner Geyer (Rsa) 79 78, Tom Whitehouse 83 74
158 Paolo Terreni (Ita) 79 79, Benn Barham 81 77, Andrew Curlewis (Rsa) 77 81, Heinrich Bruiners (Rsa) 81 77, Julio Zapata (Arg) 81 77, Wallie Coetsee (Rsa) 79 79, Michael Lamb (Zim) 81 77, Florian Praegant (Aut) 79 79, Kyle Norris (Rsa) 81 77, Tongo Charamba (Zim) 81 77
159 John Bele (Rsa) 81 78, David Drysdale 82 77, Eugene Marugi (Rsa) 78 81, Albert Pistorius (Rsa) 79 80, Rossouw Loubser (Rsa) 81 78, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 79 80
160 Desvonde Botes (Rsa) 82 78, Trevor Fisher (Rsa) 81 79, Divan Van Den Heever (Rsa) 81 79, Leif Westerberg (Swe) 85 75
161 Kevin Stone (Rsa) 76 85, Hendrik Buhrmann (Rsa) 81 80, Graham Cox (Rsa) 84 77, Louis De Jager (Rsa) 74 87
162 Juan Abbate (Arg) 87 75, Henk Alberts (Rsa) 87 75, Charles Bolling (USA) 86 76
163 Sven Struver (Ger) 84 79, Jake Roos (Rsa) 82 81, Steve Van Vuuren (Rsa) 84 79
164 Tyrone Ferreira (Rsa) 87 77, Tyrone Van Aswegen (Rsa) 79 85
165 Mark Pilkington 77 88, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 86 79, Justin Turner (Rsa) 87 78
166 Titch Moore (Rsa) 80 86
167 Prinavin Nelson (Rsa) 90 77, Darren Holder (Rsa) 86 81
168 Miguel Rodriguez (Arg) 84 84, Justin Walters (Rsa) 87 81, Ruan Botha (Rsa) 90 78
172 Wayne De Haas (Rsa) 90 82
173 Oliver Bekker (Rsa) 87 86, Tota Thimba jnr (Rsa) 90 83