Home hero Robert MacIntyre held a share of the lead when the second round of the weather-affected 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was suspended after he shot a sensational 66 in brutal conditions at Kingsbarns Golf Links.
When early starter Richard Sterne put the finishing touches to his bogey-free -5 67 at The Old Course, St Andrews to set the clubhouse target at -12, it looked like no-one would be able to catch him, with strong winds and heavy rain battering all three courses across the afternoon.
But up stepped Scottish Ryder Cup star Robert MacIntyre, who made seven birdies and a solitary bogey in the worst of the weather to join Sterne at the summit before play was suspended due to unplayable courses at 16.14 local time.
Those with holes still to complete will return to the course at 08.00 on Saturday before the third round begins at 12.30 with a shotgun start if Mother Nature allows.
Sterne's countryman Louis Oosthuizen who left for LIV money, was one shot behind the co-leaders after carding a 68 at Kingsbarns, one ahead of the large group containing home favourite Scott Jamieson.
MacIntyre said: "It was almost a perfect round of golf, especially once the weather came in, just a lovely round.
"It's difficult when it gets this windy. It's hard to hit the ball good with the wind.
"So I was having to try and fight the wind on certain holes and wasn't comfortable. But I made some beautiful shots. Yeah, putted solidly in the wind."
There was a four-way tie at the top of the team standings, with Wenyi Ding and David MacFarlane, Harrison Crowe and Cian Foley, Jack Senior and Dery Desmond and Alejandro Del Rey and Matthew Goode all on -24
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