World Cup winner Stephen Dodd admitted to finding his first round a struggle at the Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open.

The Welshman broke his duck on the European Tour last season when he won twice, including a Far Eastern victory at the Volvo China Open, as well as winning the World Cup with his country.

But he has come nowhere near to that level of performance since the start of the new season and knows he will need to find some form if he is to make his mark at the Emeralda Golf Club.

Dodd tees off his second round only three strokes off the lead held jointly by England's Simon Dyson, Irishman David Higgins, Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand, and Taiwanese Wang Ter-chang.

Of his day, he said: "It wasn't pretty. The eagle was the highlight. I just played awful from start to finish and continued on from the last few weeks.

"For whatever reason, you get good weeks and you get bad weeks and it's just a case of playing through it.

"It was a battling round and you can't do that every day if you don't find some sort of game. To do well this week, I am going to have to find some sort of game as I am not going to challenge playing the way I am."

Dodd revealed he has been chasing his tail as he tries to get to the bottom of his slump in form.

The 39-year-old arrived at the Emeralda Golf Club having spent time working on his ball positioning, which he had hoped would arrest a disappointing run.

He remains frustrated by his inability to get close to scaling the heights of his title win in Asia and at the Nissan Open last May.

Dodd said that he would not be working on anything between rounds, believing that only the practice he has already put in will pay dividends.

"I have done enough practice this week and I am not suddenly going to find something," he added.

"I am trying so many different things anyway, I don't know what's what. The short game is okay, which is the main thing I suppose."