PGA EUROPRO TOUR'S PANDORA OPEN

Craig Lee clickety-clicks with a 66 in second round at Burhill

Stirling’s Craig Lee, now playing out of the Aspire Golf Centre, near Aberdeen, took over as the main Scottish challenger in the second round of the PGA EuroPro Tour event, the £40,100 Pandora Open, at Burhill Golf Club, Surrey today.
Lee clickety-clicked with an excellent score of six-under-par 66 for a two-round total of 140. He is joint seventh, four shots behind the pacemakeing Englishman Robert Steele with scores of 72 and 64 for 136.
Lee gave no hint of what was to come when he bogeyed the first. But he then strung four birdies together from the second and added another at the ninth to be out in four-under-par 32.
The flow of birdies continued at the 10th and long 11th. Could it last? Well, no! He had a 4 at the short 12th but bounced back with birdies eight and ninth at the 14th and 15th before the third and last bogey of his round, at the 17th.
Young Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw), carrying the banner for Scotland in the first round, slipped back to a share of 13th place on 141, the same mark as Scott Henry (The Carrick at Loch Lomond). McAllister went from an opening 68 to a 73 in which he birdied the first, short eighth and 16t5h but dropped too many shots – at the long second, the seventh, 10th and 14th.
Henry is playing pretty steadily – a 70 followed by a 71. He got off to a sticky start in Round 2 with bogeys at the third and short fourth and after his first birdie of the day, at the long fifth, he bogeyed the seventh. But that was the end of the bad stuff. He covered his last 11 holes in three under par with birdies at the ninth, long 11th and 13th.
Other Scots make the cut – with nothing to spare – were the North-east pair of Ross Cameron from Ellon and Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation). Cameron had a second-round 71 and Lornie a 73.
It was not a good day for the Saltman brothers. Lloyd had a disastrous 80 in a Challenge Tour event while, at Burhill, both Elliot and Zack failed to beat the cut at 145.
They had matching totals of 148, Zack with a second-round 76 and Elliot with a 78.
Other Scots who failed included Paul Doherty, John Gallagher, Barry Hume Lee Harper, Mark Kerr, John Henry, Stephen Clark, Mark Lawrie, Stephen Duncan, Martin Lawrence and Euan McIntosh.
LEADING SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
136 Robert Steele (Eng) 72 64.
138 Alex Belt (Eng) 70 68, Jamie Little (Eng) 70 68.
139 Graham Benson (Eng) 68 71, Sean Doherty (Eng) 68 71, Jack Clarke (Eng) 69 70.
140 Craig Lee (Sco) 74 66, Michael McGeady (Ire3) 69 71, Martin Sell (Eng) 68 72, Paul O’Hanlon (Ire) 69 71, Michael Collins (Ire) 73 68, Daniel Gaunt (Aus) 70 70.
Selected totals:
141 Shaun McAllister (Sco) 68 73, Scott Henry (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 70 71 (jt 13th).
145 Graeme Lornie (Sco) 72 73, Ross Cameron (Sco) 74 71 (jt 39th).
DID NOT QUALIFY
146 Paul Doherty (Sco) 72 74.
147 John Gallagher (Sco) 73 74.
148 Zack Saltman (Sco) 72 76, Elliot Saltman (Sco) 70 78, Ronan Rafferty (Ire) 74 74.
149 Gary Wolstenholme (Eng) 74 75.
150 Barry Hume (Sco) 72 78, Lee Harper (Sco) 72 78, Mark Kerr (Sco) 77 73.
152 John Henry (Sco) 72 80.
153 Stephen Clark (Sco) 78 75.
159 Mark Lawrie (Sco) 8574.
160 Stephen Duncan (Sco) 80 80.
161 Martin Lawrence (Sco) 79 82, Euan McIntosh (Sco) 79 83.