STEVEN HUME SIZZLES IN ALPS TOUR HEATWAVE

Perthshire’s Steven Hume made the Alps Tour cut with a shot to spare after shooting a four-under-par 68 in the second round of Le Fonti Open in Italy today.
Coping well with temperatures in the 80s, Hume sizzled to the turn in four-under-par 32 with birdies at the third and long fourth and an eagle 2 at th 310yd sixth.
The Scot improved to five under par for the round with a 4 at the long 10th before he wilted a little and bogeyed the 13th and 15th. But Hume finished on a high with his fourth birdie of the round at the 18th.
His 36-hole tally of 144 puts him in joint 31st place,11 shots behind the three-stroke leader, Frenchman Alan Bihan with scores of 65 and 678 for 11-under-par 133.
LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 144 (2x72)
133 Alan Bihan (Fra) 65 69.
136 Nunzio Daniele Lombardi (Ita) 71 65.
137 Moises Cobo (Spa) 67 70.
138 Matteo Delpodio (Ita) 72 66, Andrea Zanini (Ita) 69 69.
Selected scores:
141 Jason Barnes (Eng) 70 71, Ben Mannix (Eng) 72 69 (jt 14th).
142 Sam Robinson (Eng) 71 71 (jt 20th).
143 Jason Palmer (Eng) 70 74 (jt 25th).
144 Steve Hume (Sco) 76 78, Ricdki Neil-Jones (Eng) 75 69 (jt 31st).
145 Matthew Cryer (Eng) 71 74 (jt 39th).
MISSED THE CUT
146 Max Brackley (Eng) 80 66.
147 Richard Kilpatrick (NIr) 73 74.
148 Farren Keenan (Eng) 74 74.]
159 Neil Chaudhuri (Eng) 80 78.
Disqualified – Adam Hodkinson (Eng) 79 - .