A brilliant eagle at the 71^st
hole has catapulted New Zealand’s Ryan Fox into outright second at the
Challenge Tour event in Scotland this week.

The big hitting Kiwi played the 17^th
in 5-under the card, his eagle in the final round adding to a birdie in round
one, another eagle in round two and a par in the third round.

It’s been an eerily familiar fortnight for
Fox who was T7 at last week’s Najeti Open before being in contention again this
week.

It was good finishes at these two events in
2015 which secured Fox his Challenge Tour card, after coming within a whisker
of graduating to the European Tour and he’s on track to go one better this
year.

Fox finished 16^th on the end of
season Road to Oman rankings last year, less than two thousand Euros behind
what he needed to earn a main Tour card.

With his good play in the last fortnight,
though, he has now moved to 15^th on the 2016 standings and has given
himself a good chance of graduating this year.

Terry Pilkadaris was the only Australian to
make the cut in Scotland, the veteran West Australian jumping 10 places on the
leaderboard to T15 with a final round 68.

Daniel Gaunt, Scott Arnold, David Bransdon
and Dimi Papadatos all missed the weekend.