DP World Tour : Omega European Masters Leaderboard Tee Times
Matt Wallace carded the lowest round of the week to take total control and open up a four-shot lead at the Omega European Masters.
The Englishman endured the worst of the weather conditions on Thursday, but still managed to get through with a blemish-free -6 64 to sit one adrift of leading duo Alex Fitzpatrick and Spaniard Alfredo Garcia-Heredia.
In warmer and more favourable conditions on Friday at Crans Montana, Wallace enjoyed five birdies during a front nine of 30 before adding another hat-trick of gains to reach the halfway point at -14 under par following a brilliant second round of -8 62.
He is the only player in the field yet to drop a single shot through 36 holes as he targets his first DP World Tour title in six years, with Fitzpatrick proving to be his closest rival at -10
"I'm swinging it nice, hitting it good and hopefully carry that on into the weekend. It's going to sound crazy, but I missed a few chances, I really did," Wallace said. "The putter didn't really let me down, but I tried to be aggressive with the wedges, didn't really pull (it) off and then I was grinding in those areas.
Fitzpatrick, who began his second round on the back nine, was among the early starters and made his move at the par-three 13th. He stuck his tee shot to ten feet to get in the red numbers for the day before finding the green in two at the par-five 14th for back-to-back birdies.
Another Englishman was in contention with Jordan Smith recording a second-round -5 65 to sit alongside Sweden's Henrik Norlander at -9
Andrew Johnston 67, Garcia-Heredia 69 and German Nicolai von Dellingshausen 67 were one shot further back at -8 while Eddie Pepperell 66 and Australia's Jason Scrivener 69 are at -7..
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