Paul Waring retained his two-shot lead on the Cazoo Basic on the European tour by capturing 2-under 70 within the second spherical on Friday.
Grant Forrest, Jens Dantorp and Julien Guerrier all shot 69 and had been Warings nearest challengers at Hillside close to Liverpool in northwest England.
Daan Luizing (68) was alone in fifth place an additional shot again.
Waring, who shot 63 on Thursday, was one over for his spherical after 10 holes as he struggled with a unique wind route however birdied three of his final eight holes.
I do know it is so cliche however simply making an attempt to take it one shot at a time and seeing the place the ball finally ends up, after which strive go and play once more, the Englishman mentioned, whos ranked No. 586.
Ive been making an attempt to work at that so arduous over the previous few months. It is superb how shortly you will get too far forward of your self, so its one thing thats undoubtedly on the forefront of my thoughts.
Waring was 11 underneath for the match.
