Carded the first official score of 59 in the history of The European, Challenge and Seniors Tours during the second round of the 2006 Tikida Hotels Agadir Moroccan Classic, which helped him to his maiden Challenge Tour win. That miraculous performance at the Golf du Soleil in Agadir, when added to his opening round of 63, gave him a 36-hole total of 20 under par 122, and saw him replace Tiger Woods and Frankie Minoza in the Tour’s record books as the holder of lowest opening 36-hole score on any of the three Tours. His 20 under par total also eclipsed Ernie Els’s Tour record of the lowest opening 36-hole score in relation to par, while the 19 birdies he produced over the opening two days in Morocco accounted for the most scored by any player over two rounds in the history of all three tours. Went on to record a second Challenge Tour win in 2006, at the OKI Mahou Challenge de España, as he took the 20th and last available European Tour card on offer through the Challenge Tour Rankings.