Some of the great names in golf have won at Woburn - Lee Trevino, Greg Norman, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam among them.

But none of them ever did what Scotland's Gary Orr managed yesterday. He was simply Orr-some.

The best season of the 33-year-old's career continued with a blistering course-record 62 in the second round of the Victor Chandler British Masters.

Orr equalled the lowest round on the European tour this year to move from three behind title favourite Colin Montgomerie into a one-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the £800,000 event.

Montgomerie is not even second after adding ''only'' a 69 to his opening 64. He is four adrift, but Zimbabwe's Mark McNulty, who had warned he might shoot 75, instead registered his second successive 65 to be right on Orr's heels.

That was a score matched by Per-Ulrik Johansson, Ian Garbutt and Andrew Coltart, but Orr's remarkable effort eclipsed everything else.

Next week he makes his tournament debut in America at the US PGA championship in Louisville and his round should guarantee that he is also among the 12 Europeans competing in the following week's £3m NEC world championship in Ohio.

It was a day when everything fell into place as he moved on to the 15-under-par aggregate of 129.

After three early birdies Orr chipped in from 30 feet for eagle at the long 18th, his ninth, and then had a hat-trick of further birdies from the fourth.

When he hit a six-iron to eight feet and holed on the 177-yard eighth he needed one more birdie to beat the 63 set by Peter Baker in 1993 and matched by Woosnam the following year.

It did not look on when Orr blocked his final drive behind some trees.

"I didn't know whether to hook it or cut it,'' he said. ''It was only 130 yards to the pin, but either way I had to bend it about ten yards.''

In the end he decided to cut it, keep it low with a three-iron and see what happened. What happened was that it lipped out and left him with a two-footer to break the record.

l Billingham's Steve McKenna missed out on his first big PGA North Region win when he tumbled to a 79 in the De Vere PGA North Region championship at Slaley Hall last night.

Leading scores: 215 C Hislip (Eden) 73 71 71; 217 R Hutt (Birkdale) 73 74 70; 218 M Parkinson (Dore and Totley) 73 74 71; R Wragg (Renishaw Park) 74 72 72; 219 G J Brand (Baildon) 74 76 69; 220 M Jones (Heaton Park) 75 73 72; 221 M Archer (Grange Interiors) 68 80; 223 S McKenna (City of Newcastle) 72 72 79; G Bell (Eaglescliffe) 73 77 73; 225 M Ure (Billingham) 78 75 72, G Lisle (Whickham) 73 79 73; 227 J Graham (Silloth) 78 76 73, D Pearce (Barnard Castle) 74 78 75; 228 J Harrison (Matfent Hall) 78 75 75.