Former Wanganui golfer Nick Gillespie used his course memory to hold the halfway lead in the Pin-High/Craigs Investment Partners Wanganui Pro-Am overnight.
The Wellington-based Gillespie recorded a three-under score of 67 to hold a one-shot lead over New Plymouth's Grant Moorhead (68).
Josh Geary of Mount Maunganui, back from theUnited States for a couple of months, is in third place on 69.
Trainee Pro Rodney Donaldson was on track for a low round until he made a quadruple eight on the first hole his 7th hole but still recovered well for his 71, making it a round of what could have been.
Nick Gillespie (Wellington) 67, Grant Moorhead (New Plymouth) 68, Josh Geary (Mount Maunganui) 69, Dominic Barson (New Plymouth) 70, David Klein (Te Anau) 70, Mark Purser (Hamilton) 70, Troy Ropiha (Taupo) 70, Mark Brown (Wellington) 71, Blake Cowley (New Plymouth) 71, Rodney Donaldson (Hastings) 71, Craig Hamilton (Waikato) 71, Simon Owen (Kinloch) 71, Daniel Pearce (Ashburton) 71, Peter Spearman-Burn (Wellington) 71.
