Bob MacIntyre found an excess gear as he opened up a commanding direct at the halfway point.
After first-round leader Paul Casey struggled to a 73 in early states at the Green Eagle Golf Club, MacIntyre took good great advantage of this daytime weather and terminated a 63 despite making only 1 birdie on the five par-fives.
The Scot stormed to the top of the leaderboard on 11-under par, four clear of Bernd Ritthammer, while Casey is now six off the pace because he continued to fight a difficult layout in addition to a throat infection.
MacIntyre has had a rookie year together with a tie for sixth in The 148th Open at Royal Portrush and back-to-back runner-up finishes in May, on the Tour, and he is in position to land his victory on Tour.
The gifted left-hander’s scorecard featured some remarkable 11 threes – half them for birdie, and even though he was not able to pick up shots at the long 15th or 16th, he struck on the final green in two and readily two-putted for his seventh birdie of the day.
“I stuck to my game plan,” said the composed 23-year-old. “It is most likely the best I have driven a ball – maybe this season. It is not going right, but it is heading miles. I really don’t understand what I am doing so I am only going to attempt to continue to do it, but it’s working.
“I can only control what I can control and that is swinging the golf club for every person shooter. That is all I’m going to do over the weekend also and I can keep the excellent scores coming. Especially when it’s my first time with a lead it is going to be hard.
“I will get to learn from this experience, I am only doing the perfect things about the program, doing the ideal things off the program. I’m nice and relaxed and everything at home’s been brilliant so I’m in the perfect mindset for going out there this weekend”
Ritthammer gave the home fans plenty to cheer late in the afternoon when he birdied three of their final four holes to cap an blemish-free 66 which lifted him under and in 2nd place, with Casey alongside Matthias Schwab and Guido Migliozzi on five under.
Casey started with a bogey and dropped shots at 13 and 14, however he regrouped and clawed two shots back at 15 and 18 before rebounding back with a two at the fifth.
He missed a chance to get back to par for the afternoon at the ninth, but he had been pleased with his fightback from this a bad start although he was less happy about the set up of this course.
“I am really very pleased with a single over as it is such a challenging golf course,” Casey explained. “Attitude is the key, ” I had a good attitude and luckily there were choices to produce birdies if you stay with it, however, it’s very hard.
“Not every course should be simple weekly, but if it had been me I’d go the tees up here because you are earning much more interest into the way this course is played. Hazards will be more and I’d love to find guys going for it a little more. At this time it’s very, very hard, virtually sort of defensive, which isn’t that enjoyable.”
Xander Schauffele, the highest-ranked player in the area this week, made a spirited response to his introduction 73 since he got into red numbers with a four-birdie 69 that raised the entire world No 9 into 2 under alongside Thomas Pieters, that discovered water at the final and ran up a seven to register for a disappointing 72.
Former Masters champion Patrick Reed was two over four over for the tournament and staring at a cut that is , however, he dug deep into salvage a 72 that got him firmly.
But his fellow American Matt Kuchar would fly home early.

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