Larrazabal leads Westwood and Lawrie
Pablo Larrazabal continued his excellent form at the Open de France ALSTOM to establish a two stroke clubhouse lead over Lee Westwood and Peter Lawrie.
The Spaniard – inspired by his home country’s football performance in the Euro 2008 Championships on Thursday evening – was the first player to tee off on Friday morning and he took advantage of the unspoiled Golf National to post a second round score of one under par 70 for a halfway aggregate of seven under 135.
That was good enough to move two ahead of Westwood and Lawrie, whose respective scores of 68 and 71 took them to five under after 36 holes, with Paul Broadhurst, defending champion Graeme Storm and Søren Hansen moving to four under for the tournament.
With conditions at the Le Golf National toughening up with a strong breeze, Larrazabal was delighted with his second round score, despite dropping two shots over the difficult closing four holes.
