PGAs of Europe international team championship

GARY GLITTERS FOR SCOTS BUT

THEY STILL HAVE EIGHT

TEAMS TO OVERTAKE

Thanks to four-under-par round of 68 by "new boy" Gary McFarlane, Scotland climbed up from joint 16th to joint ninth on Day 2 of the 72-hole PGAs of Europe international team golf championship at Roda Golf & Beach Resort, Murcia in sunny southern Spain today (Monday).
Clober club professional McFarlane, pictured right, a stand-in for last year's star turn, Craig Lee, was well supported by Sam Cairns (Westerwood) who also got under the par of 72 with a 70. Jim McKinnon (Irvine) had the Scots trio's non-counting score of 73 on the day.
The Tartan Tour men are on five-under-par 283 but so hot is the scoring that they still have eight teams to overtake over the final 36 holes to retain the title.
Wales are setting the pace on 275, a shot ahead of Austria for whom St Andrews-born Gordon Manson shot the day's joint lowest score of six-under-par 66.
Ireland are three behind Scotland on 286 while England have lost touch with the leaders on two-over 290.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
Two from three scores to count for team daily
275 Wales 137 138 (J Lee 69, P Evans 69, A Barnett 72).
276 Austria 142 134 (G Manson 66, F Uprecht 68, C Grenier 70).
279 Denmark 143 136 (T Nilsson 66, R Kert 70, H H Larsen 74).
280 Norway 140 140 (M Haeras 67, T Oderud 73, T Hansen 74.
281 South Africa 141 140 (W Guy 69, P Marks 71, M Botha 74).
282 Switzerland 144 138 (C Robinson 67, G Hickman 71, D Clarke 75), Italy 139 143 (M Bianco 71, F Pasqualucci 72, M Tadini 73), Germany 140 142 (P Archbold 70, M Stevenson 72, S Brown 75).
283 Scotland 145 138 (G McFarlane 68, S Cairns 70, J McKinnon 73), Holland 137 146 (M Reynolds 70, J Eerdmans 76, B Valk 77).
284 Finland 145 139 H Murtonen 69, S Aho 70, J Peltomaki 72), Portugal 139 145 N Cavalheiro 71, S Ribeiro 74, A Sequeira 82).
285 United Arab Emirates 139 146 (S Payne 71, C Martin 75, G Holmes 76.
286 Ireland 145 141 R Giles 70, B McGovern 71, L Walker 71), Spain 143 143 (M Aparico 71, J Rosillo 72, A Ocejo 73).
287 Poland 144 143 (P Bronson 70, M Proctor 73, M O’Brien 75), Sweden 145 142 (N Bjornsson 70, R Thornqvist 72, P Jonsson 73).
290 England 141 149 (J Whatley 74, M Nesbit 75, D Taylor 76).
292 Slovenia 147 145 (A Kraljic 72, J Grilc 73, R Pisek 77), Czech Republic 144 148 (J Nemeck 74, J Juhaniak 74, P Strougal 75).
298 Croatia 148 150 (M Raic 74, N Smoljenivic 76, D Ljubanopvic 81).
300 Greece 152 148 (E Papadolpoulos 73, T Ginis 75, H Zervos 78), Belgium 147 153 (A Beaupain 75, M De Lille 78, F Dhondt 78, Mexico 150 150 I Mendez 74, A Romero 76, I Estrada 79).
305 Russia 152 153 (A Matrosov 76, A Gruzdov 77, A Nesterov 79).
307 Luxembourg 158 149 (J Pallier 72, L Marks 77, J Pickford 79).
311 Slovakia 152 159 (P Spacek 77, M Oravec 82, L Valuch 83).
315 Bulgaria (N Turley 73, R McGarr 80, N Stanew 81).