David Law shot a two-under-par 70 to keep alive his prospects of winning the MENA Tour's Dubai Open with a final round surge on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old Aberdonian is on eight-under-par 136, level with Roland Spencer (Austria) and England's Zane Scotland, who had a hole in one in his first round, and two shots behind leader Jake Shepherd who is on 10-under 134 after a 69 which included double bogeys at the second and fifth or else he might have had an unassailable lead.
Law birdied the fourth, seventh, eighth and 17th, bogeying the third and 14th.
Scot Tom Buchanan, who is now based in Saudi Arabia, and Grantown on Spey's Duncan Stewart matched the lowest second-round score, a 68. Buchanan is joint 11th on 140.
Stewart is tied 16th on 141 after a round which included eight birdies but also four bogeys.
DUBAI OPEN
Al Badia Golf Club, Dubai
SECOND-ROUND LEADERS
Par 144 (2x72)
134 Jake Shepherd (Eng) 65 69.
136 David Law (Sco) 66 70, Roland Spencer (Aut) 68 68, Zane Scotland (Eng) 65 71
137 William Harrold (Eng) 68 69, Ian Keenan (Eng) 66 71
OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
140 Tom Buchanan 72 68 (T11)
141 Duncan Stewart 73 68 (T16)
144 Conor O'Neil 72 72, Fraser McKenna 73 71 (T29)
148 Greg Nicolson 73 75 (T55)
159 Ted Innes Ker 78 72 (T66).
156 Clarke Lutton 77 79 (T95)
166 Graeme Stewart 82 84 (112th).
