Murray best of Irish in Kenya

Alan Murray is the best of the Irish at the halfway stage of the Tusker Kenya Open.

But the Greystones man is 11 strokes behind runaway leader Gary Boyd on level par after a second round 73.

Boyd fired a seven-under par 64 to lead by five shots from Carl Suneson of Spain and South African David Hewan on 11-under.

Gareth Shaw and Peter O'Keeffe made the three-over par cut by a shot but Noel Fox, Michael McGeady and Simon Thornton missed out.

Tusker Kenya Open

Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi, Kenya

131 G Boyd  (Eng) 67 64

136 D Hewan (RSA) 70 66, C Suneson (Esp) 69 67,

137 S Juul (Den) 66 71, A Butterfield (Eng) 67 70, M Kramer  (Ger) 68 69,

138 T Fisher Jnr (RSA) 71 67, L James (Eng) 70 68, A Wagner (Arg) 69 69,

139 G Houston (Wal) 71 68, A Marshall (Eng) 67 72,

142 J Billot (Fra) 72 70, J Forestier (Fra) 72 70, T Ferreira  (RSA) 71 71, K Jorgensen  (Den) 73 69, J Quesne  (Fra) 71 71, Alan Murray (Irl) 69 73, G Jackson (Eng) 68 74, B Vaughan (RSA) 73 69, T Charamba (Zim) 71 71, E Molinari  (Ita) 71 71, J Larsen  (Nor) 71 71, J Axgren (Swe) 71 71, M Bremner (RSA) 69 73

144 Peter O'Keeffe  (Irl) 70 74, Gareth Shaw (Nir) 71 73, O Floren  (Swe) 71 73, A Haindl (RSA) 72 72,

Missed the cut

149 Noel Fox  (Irl) 73 76, Simon Thornton (Irl) 74 75

151 Michael McGeady (Irl) 76 75