Home favourite Matt Wallace picked up five shots in his last six holes to surge the right side of the cutline and keep his hopes alive at the Husqvarna British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo.
There was almost constant rainfall on day three at The Belfry as round two of a weather-affected event edged towards completion and Wallace admitted it took its toll in the early stages.
He may have birdied the fifth but he dropped shots on the second, fourth, seventh and eighth to turn in 39 at two over.
He remained at that mark on the 13th tee and with the cut looking to fall at one under, he was staring down the barrel of heading home in short order.
Wallace has at times been known for his fiery temprament but he kept his head down to produce a sensational run of scoring.
He put an approach inside ten feet, holed a lengthy putt and then got up and down from the sand for a hat-trick of birdies to put him right on the mark.
And better still was to come as a mini driver off the deck left him 27 feet at the par-five 17th and he duly drained the putt to comfortably extend his tournament at three under.
"Very proud, very proud," he said. "You saw me, I was a little bit down, but I wasn't angry, and I was a little bit upset in terms of internally. I wasn't showing it much, which was nice. I've been working on that.
"But to be able to shift it and lighten things up and just think, 'okay, we just got that side of the draw. It happens in golf'.
"And I allowed myself to free up a little bit in that back nine when the weather turned to somewhat decent, compared to the front nine. I was very happy to play the way I had been doing yesterday as well."
Over nine hours of play has been lost so far in the Midlands and at one point it looked as though the players would have to come off again as the rain came down particularly fiercely.
But the course held up excellently in some of the most difficult conditions Wallace has faced.
"I played the ninth unbelievably well, hitting a four iron into a tough, tough pin position," he said. "Hard hole anyway, thumping into a four iron, went 180 and just managed to get into the bunker.
"The conditions were some of the hardest stuff I've played in England, those three holes, but kind of like shimmed it off the tee on eight. I was quite happy it got up there that far. So maybe you saw me a little bit frowning and down.
"I was a little bit like, 'man, this is difficult. I don't see how I'm going to make any birdies'. Then the weather kind of turned a little bit and the rain stopped, and then I just hit it really great on the back nine and gave myself some chances. A bit of momentum, and that's how it can change."
