PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT'S LONG DAY AFTER PLAY SUSPENDED

Scots Neil Fenwick and Scott Crichton 1-2 with a round to go at Montrose

NEWS RELEASE

By NICK TEALE

Neil Fenwick, pictured right by courtesy of the sponsors,  will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Eagle Orchid Scottish Masters at Montrose Links.

The Dunbar Golf Club representative carded a two-under-par 69 for this second round in the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour event to take his tournament score to nine under, one ahead of compatriot Scott Crichton.

Darryn Lloyd, who shared the seven-under 18-hole lead with Fenwick, carded level-par 71 on day two and is one of four players sharing third on seven under par.

Play during Wednesday afternoon was suspended for two hours 50 minutes due to lightning and round two was finally completed when the last group putted out at 10:20pm, the light summer nights of east Scotland proving crucial in allowing the round to be completed without falling into Thursday. 

Fenwick managed to avoid the afternoon weather delay having teed off at 7:41am. He made three birdies in his round, at the 5^th going out and at 15 and 18 coming in, his three at the last making amends for a bogey at the 17^th.

Crichton (Aberdour Golf Club) signed for a five-under-par second-round 66 to move to eight under and second. The Scot was par for the round at the turn after bogeys at 2 and 8 equalised birdies at 6 and 7. However, a birdie at 10 and a four-hole run of par breakers from the 13^th saw him come home in 30.

Christopher Evans (Wishaw Golf Club), Paul Reed (Bristol and Clifton Golf Club), Tom Perry (Abbeydale Golf Club) and Lloyd (Stamford Marquees) share third on seven under, two behind Fenwick. Reed and Perry shared the day’s best score of 65 on the par-71 Medal Course.

 

A cut to the leading 50 players plus ties has now been made with those golfers one under par or better after 36 holes progressing to play Thursday’s final round, which will be filmed for a two-hour highlights package to air on Sky Sports on Tuesday, July 14.

 

Spectator entry and car parking  is free of charge and live scoring can be found at www.europrotour.com

SECOND-ROUND 

Par 142 (2x71)

133 N Fenwick (Dunbar) 64 69

134 S Crichton (Aberdour) 68 66

134 C Evans (Wishaw, England) 67 68, P Reed (Bristol and Clifton) 70 65, T Perry (Abbeydale) 70 65, D Lloyd (SAf) 64 71

OTHER SCOTS' SCORES

136 M Kerr 68 68 (T7)

138 G McBain 65 73, L Saltman 69 69, N Henderson 70 68 (T16)

139 F McKenna 73 67, S Borrowman 69 70 (T23)

140 S Kiloh 70 70, C Lawrie 71 69, E Ramsay (68 72, J Findlay 76 64 (T29)

141 J McColl 69 72, K Nicol 73 68 (T44)

MISSED THE CUT (141 and better qualified for final round)

143 J Duff 68 75, M Patterson 73 70, R Cameron 71 72, M Hillson 74 69

144 K McAlpine 73 71, P Robinson  71 73, P McLean 74 70, C Sutherland 75 69

145 M Rae 73 72, P Doherty 71 74, K Duncan 72 73, C O'Neill 70 75

147 J Hendrick 74 73,M Stewart 74 73

148 J Mullaney 71 77

149 A Culverwell (am) 76 73, P Shields 75 74

150 G Brown 76 74, G O'Neill 78 72, J Steven 80 70

151 A Maiden (am) 77 74, I Redford 75 76.
152 C McMaster 78 74
155 B Craggs 77 78
156 R Bell 77 79
164 S MacNeil 82 82
Retired: C Smith 73 ret, Z Saltman 75 ret, R Colsh 81 ret 

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