TENERIFE, Canary Islands - England's Stuart Little birdied three of the last four holes in a 4-under-par 67 Friday and shared the lead with South Africa's Michael Kirk after two rounds of the Abama Open de Canarias.
Little birdied Nos. 15-17 to get to 7-under 135 in the PGA European Tour event. Kirk birdied two of his last three for a 66, leaving him and Little one stroke ahead of South African Titch Moore (68) and New Zealand's Stephen Scahill (66), who overcame a bogey at 16 with an eagle-3 on the 509-yard 17th.
Little has two top-10 finishes this year and five in the top 20. After three failed attempts to keep his card, he left the European tour after the 1994 season. He returned in 2000, only to regain and then lose his card five more times.
"Golfers can improve at different ages and this is obviously my age," the 38-year-old Little said. "But if someone had told me in August 1999 I'd be playing European tour golf again I'd have laughed at them."