The birdies were flying at Kingston Heath Golf Club today as
Team New Zealand rocketed up the World Cup of Golf leaderboard.

Danny Lee and Ryan Fox combined to reel off 10 birdies,
counteracted by two bogeys to post 8-under 64 in the second round.

They are now tied 5^th alongside their playing
partners Joost Luiten and Darius Van Driel from the Netherlands who also fired
a 64 to be 5-under the card for two rounds.

"We always thought this would kind of be our format.  We played really nicely today," said Fox.

"Danny hit some great iron shots the whole way through the
round, holed a couple of nice putts and I managed to play the par-5s pretty
well today so we combined pretty well as a team."

"Joost looked like he was going to hole everything he looked
at.  It was just a fun day all around."

The low scoring day was made even more poignant with the New
Zealanders pledging to donate NZ$500 to the Kaikoura
earthquake fund for each birdie. So far they have raised NZ$6,500 with 10 birdies today and
three yesterday.

After a
successful day in the fourball format, Lee and Fox are looking forward to
trying their hand at the foursomes format again tomorrow.

"We will play a little more conservatively tomorrow.  As we saw, scoring was pretty tough
yesterday," added Fox. 

"Anything around par is a pretty good score, and if we can get the
putts to go in like we did today, we can definitely shoot 2 or 3-under easily."

Fox and Lee
are hoping to win New Zealand’s first World Cup of Golf title after the country
has recorded two runner-up results. 

"Obviously we’d love to get our names on the trophy.  I don’t think there’s been a New Zealand pair
win it," added Fox, with a cheeky little comment alluding to the rivalry
between Australia and New Zealand as sporting nations.

"It’s always nice to get one up over on you guys, especially on home
soil, I’ll leave it at that."