AUSTRALIA'S Scott Laycock fired the best round of his professional golfing career, a course-record equalling 65, to take a two-shot lead over countryman Peter Fowler and South Africa's Nico van Rensburg in the Pakistan Masters.
The 26-year-old Laycock had a bogey-free day at Karachi Golf Club on his way to an 11-under-par total of 133 at the halfway mark of the ABN-AMRO Omega Tour event.
'I've been gripping the club much too hard recently, so today I just tried to relax and take each shot as it came,' said Laycock.
'I've only had one blemish in two rounds, a double bogey on the first day, so tomorrow I intend to go out and just carry on doing what I've been doing.' Laycock, who led after three days in the 1996 Alfred Dunhill Masters in Hong Kong, before finishing third behind Bernhard Langer and Kang Wook-soon of South Korea, has yet to win a tournament since turning professional in 1994, and currently lies 39th in the Omega Tour Order of Merit.
Hong Kong's Dominique Boulet suffered on his way to a three-over 75, but still made the cut on the back of his opening 71.
'I am trying to hit too many great shots rather than steering it around and getting the ball in the hole,' said Boulet.
