Defending champions Scotland are in second place at halfway in the PGAs of Europe international team golf championship at Palmares on Portugal's Algarve coastline.
Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) lost the overnight lead with a 76 for four-over-par 148, three shots behind the new leader, Magnus Atlevi (Swede) who had a one-under 71, the first sub par score of the tournament which opened on Tuesday in a gale-force wind, underlining how well Fox played for his first-day 72.
Greg McBain, soon to be attached to Kemnay Golf Club, improved by five shots in 24 hours with a 74 for 153.
The third member of the Scotland team, David Orr (Mearns Castle Golf Academy) had a triple bogey and two double bogey 7s in compiling a 79 for 157.
Under the best two individual scores to count for the team daily, Orr's round was discarded.
Fox did well to salvage a 76 for a round which saw him bogey five holes in a row from the third before birdieing the long eighth and turning in 40. He came home in par 36 (two birdies, two bogeys).
McBain finished strongly with birdies at two par-5 holes, the 15th and 17th to match the inward par of 36. He birdied the short second and ninth on his way to an outward 38 which included four bogeys within the first seven holes.
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