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A closing 20-foot eagle putt gave McGinley a 66 to add to his opening 65 and that 13-under-par total is a new record for Europe's flagship BMW PGA Championship.

By knocking one stroke off the previous best of Colin Montgomerie, Ernie Els and Andrew Oldcorn the 41-year-old opened up a four-stroke halfway lead over Swede Robert Karlsson and England's Miles Tunnicliff.

And this on a day when Ernie Els, Justin Rose, Lee Westwood, Colin Montgomerie, Darren Clarke and Jose Maria Olazabal all failed to survive the cut.

Virtually every sentence used by McGinley afterwards contained the word "great". Even when it came to football - he supports Celtic, who were crowned Scottish champions last night.

Now a first prize of almost £600,000 is his for the taking and should he win it he could rocket up to sixth in the Ryder Cup points race.

Not bad for a player who from reaching the world's top 20 with victory in the 2005 Volvo Masters then went over a year without a top-10 finish.

"It's not like all of a sudden the hole is the size of a bucket but I am in control of what I'm doing and I love Wentworth," commented the Dubliner.

"I'm more than pleased. I had a great back nine, I holed some great putts, it was great.

"Things are looking good but I've been long enough in this game to know there's a long way to go. It's a marathon and I'm only halfway through."