Scott Jamieson may be in the midst of a wretched run of missed cuts but the Glasgow golfer is determined to keep the faith.

The 32-year-old was heading into the second round of the BMW PGA Championship today looking to build on his opening level-par 72 and make the cut for the first time in five events.

Two birdies on his closing three holes over Wentworth’s tough West Course certainly lifted Jamieson’s spirits as he strives to arrest his run of early exits.

The former European Tour champ said: “For me, this spell is the first time in the season when you start playing for really big money and it just takes one decent week to change it all.

“In this game, you have to keep yourself up and tell yourself that you can win. When you’re missing cuts it’s sometimes hard to keep believing that but you have to. That’s golf.”

Jamieson played a risk and reward game on the treacherous par-5 final hole and managed a birdie which got him back to level-par.

Having leaked two shots with a damaging double-bogey six on the 15th, Jamieson began the salvage operation with a birdie on the 16th before rifling a 4-iron from 215 yards into the heart of the 18th and two-putting for a four.

He added: “I thought I’d hit it too far right off the 18th tee but when I got there, there was just enough space to cut it round. It was quite a risky shot but it came off.”

Jamieson, who claimed his one and only Tour title in the 2013 Nelson Mandela Championship, is now working with world renowned swing guru David Leadbetter.

He said: “I had been with Alan McCloskey for a long time and he basically brought me up from the bottom rung of professional golf to become a Tour winner. I’ll always be grateful for that but I just felt I needed to freshen things up.”

While Jamieson made a solid start to affairs, his fellow Glasgow man Marc Warren crashed to a crippling six-over 78.

The three-times Tour winner, who was beaten in a play-off to the BMW PGA Championship in 2013, had made a purposeful start to his opening round and was two-under through four.

But the wheels came off with a triple-bogey on the seventh before a double-bogey five on the 10th increased the damage. Warren stumbled over the finishing line with further dropped shots on four of his last five holes as he slithered down the standings.

At the head of the board, Scot Hend, YE Yang and Joost Luiten were setting the pace heading into day two after the trio all blasted seven-under 65s.

Masters champ Danny Willett was lurking just a shot of the pace after a bogey-free 66 while Craig Lee and David Drysdale were the pick of the Scots on two-under 70s. Russell Knox had to settle for a 75.