British golf ace Lee Westwood has stretched his lead at the Malaysian Open with a six-under 66 on Friday, moving closer to ending a nearly two-year title drought.
Westwood moved to 13-under on the second day at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club at the half-way point, four strokes clear of Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts and Antonio Lascuna of the Philippines.
According to Sport24, the former world No.1, who is coming off a seventh-place finish at last week's Masters in the United States, shot a total of eight birdies although his lead would be greater if not for a double-bogey on the difficult 11th, where he found the water.
Westwood, who last won at the 2012 Nordea Masters in Sweden, credited swing tweaks made under his new coach and the report mentioned that Lascuna now stands at nine-under par for the 2.75 million-dollar tournament, which is jointly sanctioned by the European and Asian tours.
Colsaerts carded a 69 to stay level with Lascuna and keep Westwood in sight while former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen ended the day nine strokes off the lead, shooting a 68 to go to four-under for the tournament, the report added.
