SECOND DAY OF WORLD CUP ON BARBADOS

MONTY AND MARC HOIST SCOTS
INTO JOINT SECOND PLACE

Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren combined their assets splendidly in the second round of the World Cup at Sandy Lane Resort on the Barbados.
They finished up with a three-under-par foursomes score 67 - birdies at the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, 13th and 16th; bogeys at the 10th and 18th - in boosting their halfway total fo 134.
That put the Scots up from joint ninth after one round to second only to leaders Argentina with 36 holes to go.
Scotland, who birdied four out of five holes from the fourth, were indebted to some fine putting by Warren for their move up the leaderboard.
Montgomerie, pictured right, laughed: “We had six birdies today and Marc holed all of them. That’s okay. We’re in with a shot and we’ll go for it at the weekend.
“I knew we had a good chance to win this year with Marc. To win the Challenge Tour, as he did, is very tough to do and then coming out on Tour and winning his first tournament against a Swede in Sweden (Robert Karlsson) was obvious proof that Marc can handle himself under that type of pressure.”
Warren added: “I’ve loved playing with Colin. He’s a great player and so solid tee to green and holing out. I feel that you are definitely one or two shots up at the start. You have so much confidence in him. It gives me confidence too.”
Angel Cabrera and Andres Romero have had rounds of 64 and 67 to put Argentina in the pole position on 131.
Sharing second place with Monty and Warren on 134 are Sweden 's Henrik Stenson and Carl Pettersson and Germany's Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem.
Defending champions Wales - Bradley Dredge and Stephen Dodd- slumped from an opening 65 to a disappointing 75 for 140.


SCOREBOARD

131 ARGENTINA (Angel Cabrera & Andres Romero) 64 67.
134 SCOTLAND (Colin Montgomerie & Marc Warren) 67 67; SWEDEN (Henrik Stenson & Carl Pettersson) 64 70, GERMANY (Bernhard Langer & Marcel Siem) 65 69.
135 SPAIN (Miguel Jimenez & Gonzalo Fernandez) 69 66, SOUTH AFRICA 64 71.
136 ENGLAND (Luke Donald & David Howell) 66 70.
137 MEXICO 69 68.
138 ITALY 68 70, SOUTH KOREA 66 72.
139 UNITED STATES (Stewart Cink & J J Henry) 66 73.
140 DENMARK 70 70, AUSTRALIA 68 72, IRELAND (Padraig Harrington & Paul McGinley) 67 73, WALES (Bradley Dredge & Stephen Dodd) 65 75.
141 CANADA 69 72, JAPAN 67 75, COLOMBIA 67 74.
143 SWITZERLAND 73 70, SINGAPORE 71 72, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 70 73, FRANCE 68 75.
145 BARBADOS 69 76.
148 JAMAICA 72 76.