Lawrie leads and chasing place in record books

PAUL LAWRIE has a chance this weekend to achieve something which has even eluded Tiger Woods so far.

Only two players — David J Russell in 1992 and Jesper Parnevik three years later — have ever gone through a European Tour event without dropping a stroke.

Woods failed to join them on the very last hole of the 2002 American Express world championship at Mount Juliet in Ireland, but Lawrie is halfway there after adding a 69 to his opening 67 in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles today.