Englishman Roe tied for the lead
Home favourite Carl Pettersen fails to make weekend cut
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Friday, 04, Aug 2006 09:24
Englishman Mark Roe shares the lead after the second round of the Scandinavian Masters after an eventful last hole in Malmo.
The 43-year-old fired seven birdies and failed to drop a shot in his round of 65 and is on ten under along with Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts.
But he had a lucky escape on the 18th when his seven iron club snapped after playing a shot from behind a tree, with the ball landing six feet from the hole to make the birdie.
Roe, languishing in 144th on the European Tour of Merit, with his seven under par was just one shot off the Barsebäck course record.
Scotland's Marc Warren is two shots back on eight under, tied with Sweden's Fredrik Jacobsen, while England's Tom Whitehouse is tied in third place on six under with South African Richard Sterne.
Home favourites Carl Pettersson and Henrik Stenson finished on three over and failed to make the weekend cut.
Roe, who was famously disqualified in the 2003 Open for forgetting to exchange cards with Jesper Parnevik, said afterwards he took a big risk on the final hole.
"If I'd played the shot I wanted, I could have broken an arm or a wrist, so I decided on the route that would definitely snap the club," he said.
"But you don't often see clubs broken in three places and a piece could still have snapped off and hit me. Luck favours the brave."
Sweden's Nicolas Fasth is on three under while last year's US Open champion Michael Campbell is on under par after a round of 75.