Adam Scott five off the pace in Dubai
Adam Scott – file phot0
Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee were the two Australian to be inside the top 50 in the DP World’s Race to Dubai rankings ahead of this week’s DP World Tour Championship and, as a result, earned the right to play the season-ending event.
At the halfway stage at the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates Earth Course in Dubai Scott is in a share of 12th place and five off the lead held by Frenchman Antoine Rozner.
Scott added a second round of 71 to his opening 69 recovering from a slow start to his second round with a back nine of 34 to be on the edge of contention heading into the weekend.
Lee is two shots behind Scott in a share of 21st place after a struggling round of 72.
Scott will head for a break after this week’s event, making the decision to miss Australia’s flagship events over the next two weeks for the first time in several years to spend time with family and recover from what has been a hectic schedule of late.
Lee, however, will head to Brisbane after this week’s event to attempt to defend his Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland.
The leader through 36 holes, Rozner, is a two-time winner on the DP World Tour. Although the 31-year-old has not won anywhere in more than two years, he has been in good form in recent starts and recording 14 birdies in his opening 36 holes suggests he has carried that form into this week.
Rozner is ahead of two-time winner of the event, Rory McIlroy,, who shares second place with Tyrell Hatton, a winner and runner-up in his last two DP World Tour starts.
