TOM BUCHANAN IN TOP 10 WITH ROUND TO GO IN MENA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Tom Buchanan, playing over home course at Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club, Abu Dhabi, is lying joint eighth with one round to go in the MENA Tour Championship.
The Stranraer-born pro has shot 69-67 for six-under-par 136 over the par-71 lay-out to be six shots behind the leader by three, Moroccan  Faycal Serghini (65-65).
Buchanan, who was on the books of first Kilmarnock and then Rangers as a teenage football prospect, birdied the first, third, fifth and sixth on his way to a bogey-free outward half of 32. He parred his last 12 holes.
Fraser McKenna and Clarke Lutton are tied 22nd on 141, McKenna with scores of 72-69, Lutton 73-68. Highlight of McKenna's card was an eagle 3 at the long third. Lutton covered his last 10 holes in three under par with birdies at the ninth, 17th and 18th.
Greg Nicolson is joint 46th on 148 with rounds of 72-76.

MENA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club, Abu Dhabi
LEADING SECOND ROUND SCORES
Par 142 (2x71)
130 F Serghini (Mor) 65 65
133 M Turner (Eng) 67 66, J Allan (Eng) (am) 67 66
134 I Keen an (Eng) 67 67, N Mulhaupt (Swi) 68 66, M Harradine (Swi) (am) 67 67
135 Lee Corfield (Eng) 65 70
136 T Buchanan (Sco) 69 67, T Hogarty (SAf) 69 67
137 Y Ali (Eng) 67 70

SELECTED SCORES
139 S Dodd (Wal) 71 68 (T15)
141 F McKenna (Sco) 72 69, C Lutton (Sco) 73 68 (T22)
148 G Nicolson (Sco) 72 76 (T46).