EUROPE'S BIG LEAD OVER ASIA-PACIFIC IN SIR MICHAEL BONALLACK TROPHY MATCH ON THE ALGARVE

Europe took the second-day honours 7 1/2-2 1/2  to lead Asia-Pacific 13 1/2-6 1/2 with 12 singles matches to come on the final day of the Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy men's amateur international golf contest at Monte Rei golf course on Portugal's Algarve coastline. Europe started the second day with a 6-4 advantage after a fightback by Asia-Pacific in Thursday afternoon's four-balls. The Europeans, under the captaincy of Andrew Bennet t Morgan,  won the second-day foursomes 4-1 and were on their way to a similar winning margin in the four-balls. until Matthew Perry and Cameron Smith staged a late rally to square their match against Europe's Daan Huizing and Manuel Trappel who had been one after 16 holes in the last of the day's matches to finish. Irishman Alan Dunbar and Welshman Rhys Enoch, a student at East Tennessee State University, extended their 100 per cent record with two more wins. EUROPE lead ASIA-PACIFIC 13 1/2-6 1/2 Day 2 results (European names first) FOURSOMES (4-1) Marcel Sneider and Robin Kind bt Hideki Matsuyama and Seenappa Chikkarangappa 3 and 1. Alan Dunbar and Rhys Enoch bt Soo-Min Lee and Khalin Hitesh Joshi 3 and 1. Daan Huizing and Manuel Trappel bt Chien-Yao Hung and Chang-Woo Lee 5 and 4. Jack Hiluta and Ben Taylor bt Jake Higginbottom and Benjamin Campbell 5 and 3. Robert Karlsson and Thomas Detry lost to Matthew Perry and Cameron Smith 1 hole. FOUR-BALLS (3 1/2-1 1/2) Dunbar and Enoch bt Chikkarangappa and Natipong Srithong 3 and 2. Moritz Lampert and Jon Rahm-Rodriguez bt Matsuyanama and Taihei Sato 1 hole. Hiluta and Taylor lost to Higginbottom and Joshi 7 and 6. Schneider and Kind bt Lee and Hung 4 and 3. Huizing and Trappel halved with  Perry and Smith.