MUNICH, Germany -- Retief Goosen of South Africa shot a 4-under 68 Friday for a one-shot lead after the second round of the BMW International Open.

Goosen stood at 12-under 132 at the Golfclub Munchen Eichenried. Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark trailed by one after a 65. John Daly shot 70 for a 144 total, missing the cut by three strokes.

David Drysdale of Scotland had the lowest round of the day, finishing with a 64. He's tied for third with Nick Dougherty of England (65). Dougherty had two eagle 3s within four holes. He hit the flagstick with his 6-iron approach to the par-5 sixth hole.

Goosen's biggest challenge was coping with the sandflies swarming around the course after three days of heavy rain earlier in the week. Goosen's lime-green shirt seemed to attract the flies.

"At times they were all over me and I could not see the ball," he said. "Eventually, I had to put my blue rain top on even though the sun was shining."

The 24-year-old Kjeldsen, winner of last year's Volvo Masters and the Andalucian Open in Spain in March, has risen to No. 37 in recent months. He didn't play at the U.S. Open because of an ear infection.

Dougherty put his "shocking" finish to the Wales Open behind him and moved into contention with those two eagles in a 65 that lifted him from 23rd to a tie for third. And if Dougherty maintains his form over the final two rounds, there could be an unexpected bonus in store for him: a place in the British Open at Turnberry.

Made aware that two exempt spots are on offer from a mini-Order of Merit in which he currently lies sixth, Dougherty said: "I'd love to play, but the best way is to stay in the now and I'm trying to win this."

Three weeks ago at Celtic Manor -- the course on which he hopes to make his Ryder Cup debut next year -- he shared the lead with a round to play, but then crashed all the way to 37th place with a 79.

"It was an horrific score," he commented. "I felt like I should have won, but I changed my game plan a bit and pressed too hard. It's amazing that after eight years on tour, you're still learning things and I certainly learnt from that."

The first of his eagles came on the 481-yard sixth, when he hit the flag with a 6-iron and stopped four feet away. Then, only three holes later, he made a 35-footer for another.

Goosen went 33 holes without a bogey, but after dropping a stroke at the 441-yard seventh he closed with his 13th birdie of the week.

Kjeldsen matched Dougherty's round just a week after having to pull out of the U.S. Open with an ear infection.

"They wanted to treat it in America, but I wasn't comfortable with that and so came home," he said. "I was given a local anaesthetic so they could drill in and suck out all the infected stuff, then they did it again on Monday before I travelled here.

"It started a few weeks ago when I had a lot of 'flu. I went up to Turnberry to take a look at the course, but on the flight up my ears went."

Drysdale has already made two trips to the British Open venue, so excited is he about his first major.

"The first time it was flat calm and I thought it was quite easy, then I played it in a hurricane and thought it was impossible," said the 34-year-old, who back in 1992 played as a marker alongside Daly on the final day at Muirfield.

"It's pretty similar to my home course Dunbar, except that it's a thousand yards longer and an awful lot narrower!"

Ten times a visitor to Q-School, he is enjoying his best season ever with second- and third-place finishes already and a superb 64 now gives him another chance of his first victory.

European Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie only just made it through on 3-under after a 71 containing six birdies, but also five bogeys.

"Ridiculous, silly, crazy" were among the words the 46-year-old -- it was his birthday on Tuesday -- used to describe his rollercoaster ride.

Going much better was 51-year-old Bernhard Langer, whose second successive 68 for 8 under gives him another opportunity to become the oldest winner in Tour history. Langer was full of praise for the game of 20-year-old Rory McIlroy after playing with him for the first time these last two days, but the young Ulsterman is two further back following a 67.

Former European Open champion Kenneth Ferrie finally made his first cut of the season after returning from the United States, but it is now three misses out of three for Shane Lowry as a professional following his amazing Irish Open win as an amateur.

Lowry needed one birdie in the last four holes to survive, but instead bogeyed the 15th and 17th.

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