David Horsey is ranked just inside the Top 200 in the world, but a good 22 places outside the cutoff for the Race to Dubai. That could all change if he continues to play the way he’s rambled through the first 36 holes of the M2M Russian Open.
Horsey shot a 4-under 68 to improve to 11-under, pushing his lead to two strokes on Friday at the Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club outside Moscow.
His lead is two strokes over Germany’s Thomas Pieters, who like Horsey is on the outside looking in on the Race to Dubai leaderboard, but not by very much. Pieters, who also fired a 68 to drop to 9-under, is ranked 78th in the Dubai standings
Another Brit, seldom heard from Gary Boyd, shot his own 68 to rise into a tie for third at 7-under with Scotland’s Peter Whiteford. Boys is ranked 890th in the world.
A projected cut of +2 saw 66 players survive to Saturday, including the field’s only current member of the Race to Dubai Top 60 – Norway’s Morten Madsen, who is at even par after a 1-over 73 on Friday.
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