Harrington maintains form

NOT even the second albatross of his life could bring Colin Montgomerie closer to pace-setting Ryder Cup team-mate Padraig Harrington at the halfway stage of the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.

Montgomerie sank a 209-yard four-iron on the 516-yard third at Kingsbarns, but played the other 17 holes in level par for a 69 that left him seven adrift of the Dubliner.

On the same course Harrington repeated the six-under-par 66 he had produced on the opening day at Carnoustie and with that moved from one behind Eduardo Romero to one ahead of the 48-year-old Argentinian.