Gordon Brand Jnr tonight backed Sandy Lyle's calls for a change in the way the European Tour's career money list is calculated.
The top 40 in the list earn an exemption for next season but Lyle has just been knocked down to 41st despite winning 18 events, including two majors, in his career.
After the second round of Dutch Open, Sweden's Fredrik Widmark leads on nine-under. Ireland's Gary Murphy lies three shots behind, after notching up a par round.
Although Brand Jnr is one of those who will keep his playing rights for 2004 through the current standings as he lies 30th, he agrees with Lyle that the system needs to be overhauled.
"The career money list is becoming obsolete," said Brand Jnr after a second-round 66 in the Dutch Open in Hilversum gave him a seven-under-par halfway total of 133.
Lyle himself has just one more chance to safeguard his European Tour future after a second-round 67 which left the former Open and US Masters champion two over par and missing the halfway cut for the fifth time in six events.
The 45-year-old, who has held a tour card since winning the qualifying school in 1977, is not playing in Majorca next week and therefore has just one more event, the Madrid Open in a fortnight's time, to get back into the top 40.
Lyle was 35th at the start of the year and 38th as recently as 12 days ago, but has been bumped down to 41st by Adam Scott, Ignacio Garrido and David Howell.
That is despite the fact that Garrido has won just two tournaments to Lyle's 18 and Howell only one, and Brand's view is borne out by the fact that Lyle won more for finishing third in the Dunhill Links Championship last year than for any of his tournament victories.
Brand Jnr was two shots behind clubhouse leader Fredrik Widmark of Sweden, who set the clubhouse target of nine under par after adding a 66 to his opening 65.
He was joined on seven under by Swede Fredrik Andersson, Austria's Markus Brier and Danish duo Steen Tinning and Soren Hansen, while Lancashire's Paul Eales carded a superb 65 to lie a shot further back on six under.
Peter Lawrie and Paul McGinley are on one-over apiece, while Graeme McDowell and Ronan Rafferty lie on five-over and nine-over respectively.