Leona Maguire battles hard to sneak inside the cut-line at Scottish Open

Leona Maguire will be around for the weekend after sneaking just inside the cut line at the Women's Scottish Open, which is jointly led at the halfway mark by Minjee Lee and Megan Khang.

Following her torrid week at Le Golf National in Paris, where her form was impacted by a nasty bout of flu, Maguire battled hard to stay inside the cut mark at the testing Dundonald Links on the Ayreshire coast.

The two-time winner on the PGA Tour registered no birdie at all on Friday, with a bogey on the third and an unsightly double on the par-4 12th, alongside 16 pars, seeing her card a three-over par 75. She sits on four-over par overall, 12 adrift of the leaders.

One stroke further back, but on the wrong side of the cut-mark, Lauren Walsh's much improved even par round 72 on Day 2 wasn't sufficient to book her a start time on Saturday.

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Beginning the day on five-over, the 23-year old racked up three birdies, including on the 18th but fell one stroke short of the cut.

At the head of the field, Lee and Khang share the lead on eight-under-par heading into Saturday.

Australian star Lee led overnight thanks to an opening round of 67 (-5) and she followed that up with a 69 (-3) on day two.

The two-time Major champion began her day on the tenth tee and rolled in back-to-back birdies on holes 17 and 18 to extend her advantage.

Lee then made further birdies on holes two and three before dropping her only shot of the week on the tough seventh hole to lead with a total of eight-under.

Three players sit in a tie for third place on the leaderboard with American Lauren Coughlin, England's Charley Hull and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko all on six-under-par.