May 30 - June 02
Rinkven International Golf Club, Antwerp, Belgium
€1,000,000
Live leaderboard
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

Chris Paisley came home in 30 to sign for a second consecutive 65 and secure top seeding heading into the weekend at the Belgian Knockout.

“It's great to play well again, to follow up a low round with another one is great. I played very similar to how I did yesterday, kept myself in play off the tee and hit a lot of nice wedge shots and holed a few mid-range putts.

“It really suits my strengths, the strengths of my game are my putting and wedging and you have a lot of wedges into these greens and I seem to be hitting it straight at the moment so it sets up perfectly for me.

The Englishman moved to 12 under to finish one shot clear of Section B winner Anton Karlsson, with the top 32 from Sections A and B advancing to the knockout stages at Rinkven International Golf Club.

"It was good and, in a way quite similar to yesterday," said Karlsson. "I still struggled off the tee, but I have been hitting the irons and wedges really well. I made a few less putts today which kept the score not on the same level as yesterday but overall, I am really happy.

“I have been playing well for some reason here, but it has always been different courses. It is the third time I've been in Belgium playing and the third one so far that has been good. Similar courses though every time, I think the tree-lined courses suit me well.

“Obviously this week on how far I have played so far it would have been nice to keep playing the stroke play way, but we have always been prepared for the change over the weekend.”

The remaining 64 players will now go head to head over six rounds of nine hole stroke play knockout to find a winner at the second staging of the innovative event.

Norwegian Espen Kofstad fired a 67 to finish second in Section A at nine under, a shot clear of Dutchman Darius van Driel and two ahead of England's Oliver Wilson.

Last week's winner Bernd Wiesberger carded the lowest round of the day with a 64 to recover from an opening 76 and finish one shot above an eight man play-off for the final five spots.

After one trip up the play-off hole, it was English pair Tom Lewis and James Morrison, and Australian Adam Bland who missed out as they all bogeyed after errant tee shots.

Paisley has now shot three consecutive rounds of 65 after finishing strongly for a top five at last week's Made in Denmark presented by FREJA.