European Open: Peter Lawrie lies just two shots off the lead after the completing his second round of the European Open at the London Club late this evening. But while Lawrie is among the pacesetters, there was no fairytale for Shane Lowry who missed the cut on his professional debut.
It wasn’t all plane sailing for Lawrie, who recorded three bogeys on his card but still managed a one-under round of 71. At six-under overall, he is two adrift of overnight leaders Jeev Milkha Singh and Michael Lorenzo-Vera.
While the professional debut of shock Irish Open winner Lowry ended two days earlier than he wanted after rounds of 78 and 73, his playing partner Anthony Wall added a 69 to his opening 68 to stand seven under.
Lowry will try again at next week’s Wales Open and at the Open qualifier at Sunningdale on Monday week.
“I wasn’t firing on all cylinders, but I am looking forward to being just another player out there,” said the 22-year-old.
Damien McGrane, Gary Murphy, Michael Hoey, Darren Clarke and Gareth Maybin all joined Lowry in missing the cut but Rory McIlroy (two under), Graeme McDowell (one under) and Paul McGinley (one over) will all be around for the weekend.
Singh was out in the much windier afternoon and his 69 was a superb effort, although after chipping in at the short 17th he bogeyed the last.
Not that that was a disgrace. With water down the left there were sixes, sevens and eights galore — and one of the sixes was by world number four Sergio Garcia as he went from two under to level par.
Defending champion Ross Fisher did the same for two over and missed the cut. Also out went Masters champion Angel Cabrera and world number five Henrik Stenson, both for the second week running. Stenson shot 78-80 for 12 over.
Lorenzo-Vera won the “second division” Challenge Tour two years ago and was second in the China Open last season, but a small boy in Dubai will remember him for something very different — he gave him his whole set of irons at the Desert Classic in January.
“Usually I break the clubs when I am angry, so Raphael Jacquelin told me one day ‘Instead of breaking it, just give it’.
“The boy asked for an autograph and I said ‘I have better for you’. He was a very happy little boy.”
The 24-year-old was much more satisfied with his equipment today, not dropping a shot and picking up birdies at the 12th, 16th and fourth for a 69.
Collated Scores
(Irl & Gbr unless stated,
Irishin bold, par 72)
136Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 69, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 67 69
137Christian Cevaer (Fra) 67 70, Anthony Wall 68 69
138Anders Hansen (Den) 65 73, Jamie Donaldson 68 70, Peter Lawrie67 71, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 68
139Peter Hanson (Swe) 66 73, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 69 70, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 66 73
140Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 69 71, Christopher Doak 68 72
141Anton Haig (Rsa) 68 73, Steve Webster 69 72, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 67 74, Ben Curtis (USA) 68 73, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 71 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 70, Tano Goya (Arg) 69 72, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 71 70, Sam Little 66 75, Ross McGowan 70 71, Bradley Dredge 72 69
142Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 69 73, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 74, Rory McIlroy69 73, Chris Wood 69 73, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 67 75, Shaun Micheel (USA) 71 71, Oliver Fisher 71 71
143Gary Orr 71 72, Graeme McDowell70 73, Marcel Siem (Ger) 67 76, David Horsey 68 75, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 71 72, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 68 75, Simon Khan 67 76, Callum Macaulay 71 72, David Drysdale 72 71, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 71 72, Taco Remkes (Ned) 70 73
144Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 71 73, Richie Ramsay 74 70, Soren Hansen (Den) 69 75, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 75, Colin Montgomerie 70 74, Branden Grace (Rsa) 69 75, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 70 74, Graeme Storm 68 76, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 70 74, Paul Lawrie 73 71, Markus Brier (Aut) 72 72, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 67 77, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 68 76
145Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 70 75, Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 70 75, Roope Kakko (Fin) 69 76, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 71 74, Paul Waring 70 75, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 71 74, Steven O'Hara 71 74, Johan Edfors (Swe) 71 74, Brett Rumford (Aus) 75 70, Stephen Dodd 75 70, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 76, Mark Foster 73 72, Paul McGinley 70 75, Lee Westwood 70 75
The following players failed to make the cut
146Ross Fisher 73 73, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 73 73, David Howell 70 76, John Bickerton 72 74, David Lynn 72 74, Seve Benson 71 75, Richard Finch 74 72, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 72 74, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 71 75
147Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 70 77, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 66 81, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 75 72, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 72 75, Danny Willett 72 75, David Frost (Rsa) 74 73, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 73 74, Wil Besseling (Ned) 73 74, John Daly (USA) 71 76, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 74 73, Pablo Martin (Spa) 75 72, Richard Bland 70 77, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 72 75, Stephen Gallacher 73 74, Richard Green (Aus) 73 74, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 74 73
148 Damien McGrane74 74, Gary Murphy75 73, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 74 74, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 72 76, Alastair Forsyth 71 77, Nick Dougherty 72 76
149Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 73 76, Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 74 75, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 73 76, Benn Barham 73 76, Gareth Maybin74 75, Oliver Wilson 71 78, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 77, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 76 73, Simon Wakefield 71 78, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 73 76, David Dixon 73 76, Phillip Archer 75 74, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 70 79
150Zane Scotland 75 75, Phillip Price 77 73, Scott Drummond 72 78, David Gilford 79 71, Darren Clarke74 76, Gary Lockerbie 73 77, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 72 78, Gregory Havret (Fra) 76 74
151Francesco Molinari (Ita) 72 79, Shane Lowry78 73, Jason McCreadie 76 75, Kenneth Ferrie 76 75, Michael Hoey73 78, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 75 76
152Robert Dinwiddie 76 76, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 78 74, Andrew Coltart 75 77, Scott Strange (Aus) 77 75, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 72 80, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 71 81, Barry Lane 76 76
153Anthony Kang (USA) 72 81, Lee Slattery 71 82, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 74 79
154Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 77 77, Marc Warren 79 75, James Ablett 73 81, Peter Senior (Aus) 73 81, Simon Dyson 79 75
155Robert Rock 74 81, Andrew Oldcorn 76 79, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 80 75, Paul Broadhurst 73 82, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 72 83
156Alan McLean 76 80, Mark Brown (Nzl) 77 79, Miles Tunnicliff 72 84, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 76 80
157Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 79 78, Scott Arnold (Hkg) 79 78, Reinier Saxton (Ned) 84 73
158Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 74 84
