Padraig Harrington kept alive his hopes of a €1 million bonus at Wentworth today despite making a bags of his opening hole when his second shot landed on a spectator's backpack.

On day two of the BMW PGA Championship, the Dubliner pulled his second shot left of the first green and perched it on top of a fan's bag.

After he was handed back the ball Harrington failed to get up and down and so bogeyed the par five. However, he hit back with birdies at the second, fourth and 10th before an eagle on the 17th moved him into joint third place, two behind the Englishman Justin Rose who leads his compatriot Ross Fisher by one.

The bonus is on offer to the player winning the Irish Open and PGA title and having beaten Bradley Dredge in a play-off at Adare Manor last Sunday Harrington is, of course, the only man who can do it.

If successful it would mean over €2 million for two weeks' work as first prize this weekend is almost €725,000 and would come on top of the €416,660 the Dubliner won in Adare.

Fellow Dubliner Paul McGinley is in the clubhouse after a 69 made amends for yesterday's 74 and moved him to one-under-par. Peter Lawrie looks likely to be the only other Irishman to make hte cut on one-over after a 69.

Damien McGrane looks like he will miss out on the weekend's action after finishing on three-over. Gary Murphy and Simon Thornton finished four-over and eight-over respectively.

The Northern Irish duo of Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell were still on the course but struggling on five-over and four-over with only a handful of holes to play.

Rose's start was a tricky one after Retief Goosen began with a horribly wild drive which he feared had injured a spectator. While everybody survived, the struggling South African hampered Rose's progress.

Having arrived on the first tee ready to resume on six-under Rose was forced to wait 10 minutes because of Goosen.

Four-over himself after an opening 76, the twice US Open champion double-bogeyed after hooking his opening drive so badly that it finished close to the first tee of the adjoining East Course.

Three free drops were needed before Goosen could continue - one away from a hospitality tent, the next off a path and then a third away from bushes - and it took so long that playing partner Colin Montgomerie decided he had waited long enough and hit his second shot out of turn.

Rose, though, simply had to stand on the tee and when the time did arrive to drive he hooked as well and, after also being given a free drop, bogeyed the hole to slip to five-under.

His first four holes comprised two birdies and two bogeys and another dropped shot came on the seventh, but when he birdied the 10th and 12th the 26-year-old, playing his first tournament in England for three years and his first anywhere since a recurrence of back trouble following the Masters last week, was seven-under-par.

Two bogies followed but consecutive birdies on the last three holes moved the Englishman to the top of the leaderboard on eight-under. Goosen's round finished as it began and the South African missed the cut on six-over.

"That turned a bad day into a good day," Rose told reporters after a two-under 70 gave him a total of 136. "It is nice to be in the hunt going into the weekend.

"Tomorrow will be all about jostling for position at the top of the leaderboard," added Rose, who finished joint fifth at the US Masters in early April.