Graeme Storm faces another battle to make the cut at the Volvo China Open.

The Hartlepool golfer sits seven shots off the lead in Shanghai after posting a three-over par 75 to sit tied 78th going in to Friday’s second round.

Storm, starting at the tenth, made a decent enough start when he hit the turn level par after following up a birdie at the 13th by bogeying 14.

But then it all fell apart for the 37-year-old when he bogeyed the first, second, fourth and seventh before hitting birdie at the second.

While Storm, who has struggled for form all year, battles to make the weekend, Aussie Michael Hendry, Welshman Bradley Dredge and Englishman David Howell are all leading the way.