Scotland’s Grant Forrest continued his good record at the Open de Espana to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend.

Forrest, who was at five-under-par alongside fellow Scotsman Conner Syme and Spain’s Eugenio Chacarra at the end of Thursday’s play, carded a four-under second-round 67 to move to nine under and open a one-stroke lead at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.

Syme shot a second-round 68 and sits in joint-second place with Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach, who rolled in five consecutive birdies from the fourth hole on the way to his 66.

“It was a really good score in the end,” said Forrest, who has twice finished tied third in Spain’s national open, in 2021 and 2024, and has never missed the cut across his six previous appearances.

“I didn’t have my best stuff on our first five or six holes, but made a couple of really nice par saves to keep the momentum going, and then I just managed to make quite a few birdies.

“Started driving it well the last 12 holes and delighted with four under. I probably didn’t play quite as well as yesterday.

“Obviously, I had a couple of good scores there [over past two days].

“It’s hard to know when a day like Thursday will come when you shoot five under for nine holes and you fly up the board, or today was a bit more plodding along and then a couple came towards the end. I’m just going to keep the foot down.”

Eugenio Chacarra, who is playing on home soil with a fractured toe, and England’s Joe Dean are both at eight under, with Danish duo Jacob Skov Olesen and Jeff Winther a shot further back, alongside French pair Martin Couvra and Victor Perez and New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier.

Patrick Reed, who has led the Race to Dubai Rankings since February, missed the cut and Chacarra would leapfrog both Rory McIlroy and the American with a victory on Sunday.

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Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua will generate the most lucrative gate in British boxing history, Dana White tells Sky Sports.

Tickets for Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua’s December 11 showdown at the Principality stadium in Cardiff went on sale on Friday, with the most expensive regular seats going for £13,128.

The Principality Stadium can hold more than 70,000 spectators and White revealed on Friday evening: “I think there’s less than 700 tickets left. You can consider this thing a sellout already.”

More than half a million people joined the Ticketmaster queue to snap up tickets for the long-awaited heavyweight bout on December 11, with thousands being sold within an hour of the launch.

“There were over 500,000 people in the queue. Incredible. But for our generation, two of the biggest, most famous heavyweights in boxing. And not even arguable it’s the biggest UK fight ever between two British heavyweights,” White told Sky Sports.

Before the sale commenced, Ticketmaster confirmed regular seats would cost between £88.50 and £13,128.

Those figures did not include VIP packages, hotel and travel packages, group or concession prices.

White anticipates the fight will draw the most lucrative gate in the history of British boxing. “Definitely. It will. I don’t want to mis-speak here but we have this thing scaled for around $34 million,” he said.

“The UK is the right place for this fight to happen but it will have done well anywhere.”

The most expensive tickets exceed face-value figures for some of the world’s biggest sporting events, including the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, where some seats were listed for £8,333.

In 2015 Floyd Mayweather’s bout against Manny Pacquiao sold out within a minute, with top-priced face-value seats costing fans £4,982.

Fury last fought in London in April against Arslanbek Makhmudov, where ringside seats at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium were priced at £3,000.

Comparatively, ringside tickets for his bout against Dillian Whyte at Wembley in 2022, were priced at £2,250.

The cheapest seats on the pitch for Fury vs Joshua were listed at £345, while others ranged from £700 to £900.

Some of the lowest-priced tickets in the stadium’s upper terrace were on sale for £205.20. Ringside seats were also being sold on StubHub for more than £8,000.

Ringwalks are expected to commence at around 1am local time to cater for an international audience.

No rematch clause has been included in the contract for the fight, but that does not mean a second bout cannot be negotiated.

When the December 11 fight was made it was announced that Saudi financier Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and American combat sports promoter Dana White were staging the contest. However Eddie Hearn, who promotes Joshua, has publicly claimed the American cannot be involved.

White, renowned for creating the UFC, said of his role in this event: “Helped them with the gate, putting everything together. We’re going to do all the production, produce the show and do what I do every Saturday.”