Bond has licence to thrill

Liam Bond was today looking to take a step closer to an unlikely victory in the ISPS Handa Wales Open which would quadruple his career earnings and leave him top of the Ryder Cup qualifying race.

Bond is ranked 1,528th in the world and only got into the tournament at the last minute, but the 43-year-old Welshman amazingly found himself holding the halfway lead at Celtic Manor.